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linux-wlan-ng

0.2.1-pre11 is out. With Genesis mode support for RAM downloading of primary firmware images, and USB on 2.5/2.6. Whee, running out of things to do with that codebase.. but it's stabilizing quite nicely. And that's what counts with a driver, eh?

On a somewhat related note, 802.1x is a lovely hairball to implement. Cranking it out though. It's nice to be working on software for a change. At least if it's broken I can fix it, instead wondering if it's a hardware bug or just bad documentation... And being under NDA so I can't even rant about it appropriately. :)

Other hax0ring

After a few very close calls, it was decreed that my music array needed to be properly backed up. Rather than ending up with a stack of 600 or so CD-Rs, I picked up a DVD-R drive, whipped up some Perl scripts and a database, and now I'm up to the 36th disk. Out of an estimated 95. Close calls included two disks going offline, a motherboard going on the fritz, then another disk getting knocked offline, then finally corruption introduced by a bad cable when being rebuilt. Fortunately, ext3 saved the day -- by having a massive journal at the head of the disk.. so only the superblock and the journal were trashed instead of the data..

The database of files and md5sums of my collection has also helped me begin to eliminate duplicates and other stuff, and it's going to be the basis for some fancy playlist mangling stuff I have cooking around in the back of my mind.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Hippiness

"Golf's Ultimate Postgame Show" WTF? Isn't that an oxymoron?

Samurai Jack rocks.

Playing around with craft stuff is a lot of fun. I need to get some of these things out of my head before I go mad. though I have a lot of work to do on my technique. Ah, hell, just wanna have fun. And make pretty things in the process.

Just finished reading Whirlwind, by James Clavell.. set in the first few months of 1979, during the thick of the Iranian Revolution. And the time when my family was um, encouraged to leave Tabriz. So yes, Historical Fiction can indeed hit home pretty close indeed... Because the people, places, events, and emotions are quite real.

Getting out? What's that? *grin* Going to be taking a road trip in September, up around Asheville, North Carolina. Just me and Nature and lots of photographs. But in the mean time, there are still a few parks I want to visit down here.

I need to find me some local drama for a change. But until then, there's always target practice.

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