[ from advogato, entry #55 ]

linux-wlan-ng

0.2.1-pre2 made it out, with a bit more than was originally intended going into it. But it's all good. Apparently it's still busted on SMP boxen, so it's looking like I'm going to have to audit everything again. Too bad my old BP6 board gave up the ghost.

Other kernel hax0ring

Whipped up a patch against 2.5.68 to allow Synaptics Touchpad users to disable the tap-to-click "feature". Hopefully this will be the start of a native Synaptics absolute-mode driver, with all sorts of yummy features currently unpossible with the 2.5 input layer.

Now as soon as the 2.5 radeonfb is fixed, I can switch over. :)

Reality Construction Kit

MichaelCrawford, that was one of the most deeply touching essays I've ever read. Brought up lots of scary things from my past, and indeed present...

We make our own reality. So if it sucks, we ultimately only have ourselves to blame. And it's also ultimately on our shoulders to change it. But to change.. we have to open up to the myriad of other possibilities around us.. and most importantly.. we have to really, really want to change.. because it is so hard. And even harder when there's a physiological reason holding us down.

But the endless possibilities are daunting, even arbitrary.. so we choose the direction we want. But what if we don't really know what we want? What if we feel that it doesn't matter what direction we go in? Yet we also control what we want.. or do we?

Is the only way we can truly say we have power over ourselves is through denial? I don't believe so.. because that is analogous to destruction.. and true power is the ability to build, create, renew. Denial, without something better to turn to.. is terrible indeed.

So we must broaden our horizons. Learn, explore, create, succeed and fail. Always striving, never complacent. Good things will come, but only if we work for them.

Then again, as someone far wiser than I put it, "If you're going to have delusions, you may as well go for the really grand ones."

Don't worry, be happy!

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