Saturday, October 23, 2004


Eating A Bagel, Posting


You wouldn’t believe (OK, actually, you probably would) how much low level BS it took to get the wireless card working in Linux on this silly Dell (short version: Broadcom is the devil), but the payoff is that I’m posting this entry from a nearby Panera (yay for free wireless) while having hot chocolate and a ridiculously tasty cinnamon crunch bagel. I guess that makes this my first ever moblog post… Next step — pictures.


:: Dave Walker 11:38 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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Randy Charles Morin wrote:

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We have a Dell server at work. We gave installing Linux on it. In this case, the fault was likely the RAID drive. Common theme? Dell! They don't spend any time making their system Linux-able.
d.w. wrote:

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Dell's are the corporate standard for notebooks and desktops @ work, unfortunately. I've got a Inspirion 5160, but I would have greatly preferred an iBook G4 -- it's got twice the battery life, runs Office without (cough HACK) VMWare in 'nix (SuSe is my boot OS), and has excellent wireless support without unspeakable hacks.



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