Upgrading from ipw3945 to iwl3945 Intel Driver

Linux and wifi used to be a pain in the ass.  All of my previous drivers used to have to use the ndiswrapper alternative with the pre-compiled windows driver as a base for it to work.  With the arrival of my new laptop and with hardy heron coming out soon I look to see how to install Intel's latest Open source driver, the one, the only, iwl3945 which takes over where ipw3945 left off.  Can you feel the excitement?

Some new stuff going on here

So as you can see I've finally began to start making some small adjustments to this website.  The small things are finally a new AJAX comment box area which stop page refreshes, also are some html tags are allowed.

There is a small summary of each blog post on the very front page and I've decided to extend it a little further so that everyone can see the latest stuff that I am doing on last.fm, del.icio.us and flickr to name a few.  I'll also be working on a tag cloud as well as making the blog more AJAXy in general over the forthcoming months.  

Claiming Technorati Blog

This is just a quick post to claim this blog on technorati. Ignore it.

Testing Technorati and XML-RPC

Below is a little bit of code that updates technorati once a blog article is posted.  Once technorati has been updated then it filters out through to other various websites.  The aim is to keep both technorati as well as ping-o-matic updated on a regular basis.

My slant on the Chinese IT Bubble

I was just completing the first year of college when the dot com bubble burst.  I remember one of my lecturers coming into the class, tears brimming in his eyes as he related to us how all of his shares in Ericsson had lost most of their value. Quite a substantial amount of money at the time.

So in 2000, the bursting of the information technology bubble had marked economic implications for Sweden. Ericsson, the world's largest producer of mobile telecommunications equipment, shed thousands of jobs, as did the many of the world's once fast-expanding Internet consulting firms and dot-com startups.

http://mobile.beilabs.com is launched

So as I promised last night I decided to get off of my lazy behind and do a light implementation of Beilabs on rails 2.0. Today is that day

Rails 2.0 is now a go...

Beilabs is now updated to Ruby on Rails 2.0.  First thing I'm going to do is implement the mobile.beilabs.com website.  Hopefully I'll have it complete by tonight.  Wish me luck.

Mobile Websites with Ruby on Rails 2.0

So seeing as I have had a bit of free time over the past day (30 minutes), in between my own job here in Dublin and helping my parents out in their bar over the holidays I've also been looking at creating a nice and minimalistic mobile site for beilabs.com.

New RSS Feed

Just to let everyone know that I have created a nice new script which will take a huge load off of the server.  Before today everytime the server received a request for the rss xml file it was automatically generated by the application, this could lead to hundreds of requests and a large load.  But thanks to some spare time I now have it creating a nice and small xml file at specific intervals with a ruby cron job script (I love script/runner)

New Features in Beilabs

So over the holidays I have been improving this site behind the scenes.  Some new scripts over the holiday period have now introduced a brand spanking cool twitter interface.

Testing XHTML Validation

This is just to test if XHTML is validating correctly with the new WYSIWYG editor I just installed

Phpmyadmin Bug

I was searching for a while yesterday trying to find a fix for an apparently old bug in phpMyAdmin, where after a new installation you’d receive nothing but a blank page in the browser. Anyhow, this goes into the details about the fix...