Archive for February, 2008

rt2500

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

My 6-year old laptop is still puttering along. Recently updated the kernel, and had to rebuild the wireless driver. The card is an Asus wl-107. The latest beta of the rt2500 driver doesn’t work with recent kernels; you need to grab a nightly snapshot. To get the card to work (as opposed to simply flashing [...]

Snowfall

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

It is a luxury to walk outside and be in the woods. The silent mass of the woods – the few cars that do pass are quiet electric, almost. Two inches, so far, add a softness to the ever-pockmarked Albany streets. A traffic light changing over may be admired for its perserverence in increasing solitude.