Glad to hear you are getting back out there a bit though hope you can continue to take it easy a bit and rest up some more until you are back to as normal as you can get

Happy for ya

Has the weather been rainy around there too?  we got rain today,  pretty much steady,  and it's forecast for the most of the week.

Guess we need it to green up the grass for Easter

Thanks. It's what I do.

How's the Linux thing coming along?

Yeah, I did the install. Did the xwindows config. Haven't finished setting up the wireless internet connection just yet, though. Thanks for that linuxquestions site, it was very helpful as was the Slackware site. I was very impressed with the amount of stuff that comes pre-packaged in Slackware, and the amount of helpful hand-holding it did during the install.

I'm sure I'll be OK with the rest. I did do an open-source co-op a couple of years ago that included setting up web-based linux medical database servers. Nothing like on-the-job experience. Three months was like a year in college.WWW Link

Thanks for asking. I'll let you know if I run into any bumps.

If you have a Broadcom card just install ndiswrapper. It'll save ya a lot of headaches. Google for it. Download the source, and either download the windoze drivers or copy them from your windoze partion.

untar the ndiswrapper package, cd to the ndiswrapper that created, and then do the following commands:

make && make install
ndiswrapper -i full-path-to-windoze-driver-file.inf
ndiswrapper -l (should say driver installed and hardware present)
ndiswrapper -m

mcedit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

find the section about wlan0 and uncomment the lines about IFNAME=wlan0 and use dhcp (unless using a fixed ip addy).

If you're using encryptioon uncomment those lines as well and fill in the necessary info.

execute the command /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1. that should bring up the card and get you an IP addy and a connection. It'll do it automatically after that.

to speed up your boot time a bit edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.M file. find the line that executes the command /sbin/ldconfig. change it to /sbin/ldconfig& and the ldconfig command will run in the background and allow the boot to continue.

It also helps to install a 2.6 series kernel because they can use udev. then you can disable hotplug (which is slow as hell) by the command chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug

Thanks Mason. Very useful. I'm seeing the network OK. (it's an agere orinoco card) The ndiswrapper stuff would come in useful if ever I Linux-partition my main machine though, as it is Broadcom. Thanks for the boot tweaks too. I'll sort out the WEP encryption tomorrow.

Didn't do anything too useful today in that regard. Been playing Warhammer Dark Crusade, learning some Blitz3D Basic Language, playing with a new POVray modeller called Bishop3D --- gosh I'm good at wasting time. I'll keep ya posted.

Good to hear you're making yourself useful again, mate.

Somehow I doubt that the Worker's Comp folks are reading my blog

Yep. I'm a bit stiff this morning but I think it's the best way to go.