Entries from January 2010 ↓

The latest version of the courseware for my Linux Kernel Fundamentals course is now available from ITCourseware at http://bit.ly/bf82sN.

Linux has a number of Twitter Clients (for example, Qwit and Twitux), but they are limited to Twitter.  What about one client that works with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and other social networks? Which ones will actually work on older machines with limited memory? Can we track them all at once, with regular updates that do not require refreshing the page? We live in a world driven by instant information.  We live in a world of social networks via the Internet. Are there Linux solutions to the world of instant microblogging? Continue reading →

The project was to convert a Micron Transport ZX laptop with 256 meg. of memory into an Internet Gateway. On the Internet side is a USB modem, and the Lan side is a Belkin Wireless card with the dreaded BCM43xx chipset. I only had an XUbuntu 8.10 CD, so I installed with no problems. Network Manager recognized the USB Modem without a problem, so I was able to download the Window Wireless Driver program, installed the Windows driver, and used NDISwrapp Then I decided to upgrade to 9,04, and it was easy. The next hop was to version 9.10. The upgrade went without problems, but 9.10 is not the greated version of Ubuntu. Continue reading →