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I have been wrestling with getting a wireless card to work under Ubuntu. We’re not talking about some weird card that nobody has heard of, this is a card that actually has drivers built into the latest version of Hardy Heron…

After five hours (no, I’m not exaggerating) of beating my head against a wall I’m giving up for the night. I’m talking about right now having eighteen tabs open in Firefox, dealing with the OS and the card and who knows how many tabs I’ve closed trying to narrow the issue down, so you can’t say that I haven’t RTFM. I have, indeed, RTFM. Several times. I DID manage to finally get the OS to recognize the thing, so there’s that.

I’m sure most people are familiar with iwconfig, lsmod, modprobe, wpasupplicant, lshw, iwlist, ifconfig, lspci, dhclient, and the like so you know what I’m talking about. Yep, Linux is definitely not just for geeks anymore…

I am tired of all the coverage of the phone that some company recently released. Get over it, it’s a phone.

Where are the Mac tablets? This one by Motion Computing looks pretty sweet, too bad I loathe XP so much that I would never buy one.

About a month ago I wrote a post titled “Five reasons why Digg sucks.” I’m not sure what’s going on with Digg and the alienation of its users but my month-old posting has gotten four comments today. This leads me to believe that yes, indeed, Digg sucks and people want to talk about it. These days I visit Digg through bloglines. I don’t bother reading the comments because I’ve learned that I won’t find anything useful there. I still have to visit the actual site if there’s an interesting article that I want to read because the linked article is never in the feed but I’m okay with that, what’s an extra click eh?. My question – Why is everyone suddenly disenchanted with Digg today? What happened that is making people search for “digg sucks” in their favorite search engine?