The Cool Use Of Ubuntu

wftl

2007-08-23T11:44:00.001-07:00

Windows Vista Dilema

2007-02-21T09:18:00.000-08:00

I am currently looking at new laptops again. While in most stores I have found that most sales people will release very little information of what the problems are for this OS, that leads me to believe that they know there is a problem and are not willing to admit it. I am sort of flustered as I sort of need this to happen in the next week or at the most 2, will Vista do what most of my clients need at a reasonable price and reasonable calls into MicroSoft? I don't know, but I do believe that I know the answer.... NO! Why would this corporation make it to where if you upgrade from XP to Vista your XP key is no longer valid? Do they have something to hide? I think maybe. I have worked with Windows for quite sometime now, and don't know where to stand with it, do I tell my clients I no longer support it as the makers don't care enough to make sure that it works before it is released? Or do I continue supporting something that will cost my clients what I feel to be way too much in the way of time and money? I would preffer it if Microsoft would pay the people that have paid for it already and say thank you for being a beta tester, here is a copy of XP as we are pulling it until it is ready for production. That would make the most sense to me, if a distro if Linux did that, it would flop so hard you would never see it again. What makes Microsoft so special? Money, money and more, you got it, money! I will buy Vista only to be able yo provide a proper sense of I know what I am doing, but I will not allow this OS in my home on ANY of my home systems until they can show me that yes we have fixed the driver issues, and program compatibilities.

Pics from Walkerton

2007-02-16T14:15:00.000-08:00

Broadcom Wireless FC6

2007-01-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

I now have my Broadcom 4318 Air Force One working on Fedora Core 6, it took ndiswrapper and a whole lot of patience on my part. Right at this point I am not sure if it works with AP's that have no encryption, that s the problem that I had before. I will post more as I find more out

Gimp

2007-01-09T19:40:00.000-08:00

While working within Moving to Free Software by Marcel Gagne, I cam across working with Gimp. I have always found this to be a little confusing to me because I am too lazy to look things up on the net. I am going to try and write a how to for several different things within The Gimp and we will see what all happens with it. Like right now I need a logo for my site, lets just see if I can get something that I may want to appear in the banner of my site shall we? The above banner was created in basically 5 minutes with this program, and I will recommend it to all whom I know. I will keep expanding this blog as I feel it is a way of getting to the masses w/o much cost except for a few brain cells.
I have also designed a button for my blog, I have yet to be able to get it to link to my site. I will get this done right. Maybe not right now, but I will. As you all know, I don't say give that easily.

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Thank You

2007-01-04T13:54:00.000-08:00

I must thank WFTL AKA Marcel, and moldor AKA Jon for thier incredible gifts in getting www.kevinspcrepair.ca on the go. I am learning a whole lot in a very small amount of time. As it currently sits, I have had to bug wftl much more than I want to or probably need to, but as you all may or may not know, I am completely erm how should I say "not smart" when it comes to domains. I will get better as time goes by and I read more on Drupal. This is going to happen as I want it to be my main source of income within the next 3 years and would like to take the time now to thank some of the people who have helped me along the way.
So in short. Thanx EVERYONE

The Captain must post an I'm Sorry!

2006-12-20T11:12:00.000-08:00

I must say that I am sorry for letting my best friend Charles down, you see I was supposed to be down helping him and the organization he works for. I was to help him move the work areas over to another building, and for some dumb reason I keep waking up with one bad headache. This is not the first time this has happened when I was to help him, but I am doing what needs to be done to make sure it is the last time.

The Captain has Bombed

2006-12-18T09:33:00.000-08:00

I am officially screwed! I/we IE Charles and I installed Debian Woody on my server (dual p1 200), then went and upgraded to Sarge. My power went off sometime this morning and now Lili will not boot. I know I need to reinstall Lilo, but am more comfortable with Grub.... anyone with some advice and where to get a boot floppy, please just leave a message and I will try.
It has been a couple of hours since I posted the beggining of this one and I have posted to a couple of lists that I belong to. It is looking like I may be able to use the install cd to reinstall LILO. I will post more on this as I do more, right now it is almost 12:30 AM and I am getting rather tired, so it will have to wait until tomorrow.
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Captain Kevin Strikes again

2006-12-11T11:23:00.000-08:00

I am now working with Edgy Ubuntu. So far all has gone well with the exception that I cannot seem to get EasyUbuntu to install on it. This is what I get when I try to run it for some dumb reason.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "easyubuntu.in", line 81, in ?

main()

File "easyubuntu.in", line 75, in main

gtkfrontend.launcher(datadir, confdir, userPackageListPath)

File "/home/vader/easyubuntu/trunk/EasyUbuntu/gtkfrontend.py", line 196, in launcher

pkglist = minidom.parse(os.path.join(datadir,userPkg))

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse

return expatbuilder.parse(file)

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse

fp = open(file, 'rb')

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/vader/easyubuntu/trunk/packagelist-edgy.xml'

I finally got it working a little bit ago and all I had to do was get the nightly snapshot and run it. That fixed the above error's with ease. I have since install Red Hat 7.3 on my server so I have been concentrating a little bit more on it than on this Ubuntu system but I want to learn some o fthe older stuff until I am more comfortable with how things work within Linux. I want to lean where things are and why they are placed there so I may do a Linux from scratch just to learn what all happens and why. I do have an older pc to donate to this project so we will see what happens in the next wee or so seeing as the weather is supposed to be nice and warm which means that I won't need to go into work. Right now I am waiting for someone to restart their router so I can maybe get this document uploaded to the Internet and get some more work done. Until then, have an awesome day and remember.

Here are a few more pics of the server that I have been working with Charles on his site is as follows www.linux-games.ca

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Pics From Troy :)

2006-12-10T18:20:00.000-08:00

Working with my server

2006-12-06T20:52:00.000-08:00

I have been working with my dual p1 200 mhz server for the past year or so trying to get a distro of some sort onto it, I/we finally. The we in that is my best friend Charles, we finally got RH 7.3 onto it, so we will see what all can be done with such an old distro. What had to be done to get the distro on to it? Well I am glad that you asked, it was actually funny to me as I had tried all that I knew and nothing would work with the exception of mapping the memory. This is the paramaters for it. linux mem=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=767M@1M. This got it to install, as soon as I obtain the install disks for it, I will try to install ubuntu server on it and see what all I can learn from it as you all probably know, I suck with the command. So far I have done the following, Gotten Apache running on sort of internal intranet. Almost got Samba working with the emphasis on almost, I cannot get it to show on the workgroup for some dumb reason, I almost think that it has to do with the version that is installed on it. This is the link that I use for my information on it http://redhat.activeventure.com/73/referenceguide/index.html
All has worked well with the above mentioned Samba problem. Here is a pic or two from when we got it all installed.
For the past couple of days, there has been noting new on the server, but I am doing some reading on how to get some newer apps running on it, like linpopup. This may be a good thing for some of the clients i have got in the past as it is an internal messaging system for say a company who has say 2 or more..... hopefully way more computers. So far I have only been able to test from Linux to Windows but the problem so far has been that I can only get messages from Linux to Windows, no the other way around. The message coming into the Linux box does not appear after is says it has been sent successfully. I will continue to work on this in the comming week and see what I can get figured out.
I, along with my friends from the WFTL Lug Nuts wish to extend a hand to all who are experimenting or even using Linux for the first time, This is my attempt at helping anyone who wishes the help or is just afraid to ask for it, I knwo it is sometimes hard to start the conversation. So maybe this will loosen some of the verbal strings and get you all on the same page.
That is it for now, be safe and Y'all come back now ya here!!

Great News From Captain Kevin

2006-11-12T21:14:00.000-08:00

I have been working with Edgy Eft Ubuntu for the past couple of weeks, but with my work schedule it has gotten quite imposible for me to sit down and write anything but the very basics for the past 4 months or so. Maybe next week during my down time I will work with Charles and get another podcast out and then get going on my testing on this unit.

2006-09-28T09:23:00.000-07:00

New post from Captain Kevin

I am doing this from Blog entry poster, available from the Ubuntu Repositories. So far it is pretty cool. I have really been putting in some time looking into working with some of these as I have fallen pretty far behind on my posts.

Blogging

2006-07-19T16:37:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have been sort of lax in my blogging as of late, between the ongoing job searches and taking care of my 2 11 year old nephews, and my 11 year old son. That leaves me with maybe one hour per night for me to work on my blog. As you can tell sleep has been winning. Hopefully over the next 2 weeks things will improve just a little but as I had a pretty good interview today and my sister is off for the next 2 weeks and will be looking after them herself. This should open the door for me to install Suse 10.2 and try it with all of it's glory. We will see what happens with it all. Sorry I have been unable to keep this up to date os of late, I am still have some problems at home. I have howwever found a flaw or 2 with Dapper Drake Ubuntu. It does not seem to like any of the P2 systems I have installed it on. The first one was my dads laptop, it is a P2 366 with 256 MB RAM and it would hang during loading the hardware drivers. I would have to hard crach the system 10 or more times to get it to boot, and then put up with an extremely slow machine. I went back to Breezy Badger on this laptop, and all is well now. I also had a pretty major issue installing Dapper on my brother-inlaws p2 350 with 512 MB RAM. It too would hang during the boot at the same spot. I finally did what I did to the laptop, and it too is running smoothly.
Okay, Okay. I admit that I have been working such long hours that I don't have time to do much blogging, but I am hoping that this will all change as I am getting some shorter shifts now.
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Captain Kevin's Best!

2006-07-16T18:58:00.000-07:00

The reasons I like Linux so much is because there is no known Spyware written for it, this could be bcause it is not exactly “main stream” yet, or it could be bcause there has been such wide community support for it that people just don’t care to hack it, I personally believe that it is because that it is a friendly community and the people just want to keep it free. When I do a consultation for someone wanting to switch from Windows to Linux, I sit and watch what they do with Windows before I install anything. Then I install a couple of things on their Windows system to get them used to it before I install Linux, all in all, it takes about a month before I will install anything because when I do something, I like it to be good with little complaints. Personally I have been using Ubuntu Linux for the past 2 years and refuse to switch back to Windows as an OS because it has too many security flaws and I don’t have the thousands of dollars that it would take for me to get all of the software I run to make it a viable option. If someone is classed “low income”, I will always show them my laptop and my wife’s computer. My laptop and her computer are both Dual Booting and I rarely use Windows for the simple reason that when I do decide to use it, I always have to install the latest update, then I have to remember what software I have that I can legally use, which software I would have to register, and then to beat all else, answer 10 dozen questions when I wanted to install anything.

I have since converted my wife to Linux and will put her comments in here as well. The main thing for her to keep using Linux is for me to keep an open mind and do nothing more. Well, I am working on getting my Internet back up and running, One certain phone company is really pissing me off and I will get them fixed one way or the other. They pirated my phone line, and said they had my wife recorded saying that we want their service. Wrong! I will never switch my phone service no matter the situation. What tipped me off is the fact that I noticed Monday last that I had no Internet. I then called my ISP the very next morning and asked me if I had switched my provider recently. Then my wife remembered talking to this company the previous month. Sure enough I had been switched. This is now going on the second week and it is really getting me angry. Bell Canada is doing all that they can to get my line back where it was, and I have no problems with them at this point. My problem is with this company that is somehow allowed to operate within Canada! Can the government do nothing about this? Now I just need to get a few other things done. Sorry for the rant but I had to get it off of my chest just a little bit.

I have been working on getting my wireless to work better under Linux but no such luck as of yet. I am hoping that a fresh install will take care of this, when I do get my Internet back sometime this week I shall try that.

Chatzilla in Dapper

2006-06-07T08:04:00.000-07:00

I have been using this for the past 3 or 4 days, mainly I wanted to see what it was and how to use it. I have now gotten to where is like it more than Xchat because the all important whois works. I am going to use it for a while to see if I get tired of it.
The way to install it;
sudo apt-get install chatzila
How to join wftlchat;
/attach chat.marcelgagne.com
/join #wftlchat

I know this is short post but it will have to do for now.
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Dapper

2006-05-23T15:37:00.000-07:00

This is the continuation of the Dapper. When I get into a fresh installation of Ubuntu, I will always install the following, Blender 3D, Clam AV, and just a few other things. Then it is usually searching around and deciding if I can make due with what I have or if I want to play and learn something new. I have been sitting in the Dapper channel for the past few days and it seems that all of the upgrading isn't always going so well for some folks. Like I just saw where a guy did an upgrade from Breezy and now his X-Server will bit start. I am one who believes that if you do your homework all will work when you do it. I am in the other background. I don't always do my homework and it does come up and bit me rather hard at times, Like when I first installed Ubuntu on this laptop, The wireless would not work even after following the directions in the Wiki. This was very disappointing to me as I was accustomed to things just working with very little configuration. I am however pleased to report that I do have my Broadcom Wireless adapter working. The way I did this is as following.
1)I go here. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Broadcom43xx?highlight=%28Broadcom%29#head-06abfbc9895e3a558cad13518afc671d1b421131
2)Then I follow this Using the bcm43xx driver
3)Then when that is all done, I do this. sudo iwconfig eth1 ap any.
4)Then I type in sudo dhclient eth1
5)Then it should be working for me.

When I do this, it all seems to fall in place and then I can ping out and surf the net. All I have to do now is encrypt a wireless network and get that idea going. This should prove to be quite the goos thing as I want to have a wireless network at home and don't want to do it until I get the rest of it working right.

The Brilliance Behind Ubuntu

When I first started using Ubuntu it was when it was still Wharty Warthog. This was a good distibution as well, the only problem I had was I could not get my sound working. This was solved in Breezy Badger. All is good and well with it until I bought this laptop, I could not get an X-Server happening. This was solved in Dapper Drake and it is the distribution that I continue to use. I do love how easy it is to install and use most software on Ubuntu, there is a few downfalls that I haven't yet found but we will see what happens. I am going to install a firewall this weekend and see what all happens with it. Okay that was fairly painless, I did a sudo apt-get install firestarter. This installed firestarter and then I just went to System>Administration>Firestarter. Set it up for my connection to the internet and Boom! I am protected.

Games I Install Through My Basic Install

Frozen Bubble;
I install this because I love to play it for some giggles and for the days that my son drives me crazy enough to allow him to play on my laptop. This has not happened as of yet.

Battle For Wesnoth;
I install this because I love the challenges of a new world.

Falcons Eye;
I got introduced to this game by my good Friend Charles. I just like to play with all of the different settings in it.

That is all of the games that I install right off the bat. The main problem with having so few games is that I don't always leave myself enough to play.

Desktop Backgrounds;

I always manage to install a few Desktop Backgrounds that are not included, I do this because I like to look at different things. This is always cool and never dull.
http://www.linuxwallpapers.org/ This is where I go to get most of my Backgrounds. Or the next thing I will do is do a Google search for Linux Backgrounds.

Xchat

I am always in one channel in IRC, it is called chat.marcelgagne.com then under join channel #wftlchat
This will allow you to talk with Marcel Gagne, know as WFTL Writer and Free Thinker. You can find him at www.marcelgagne.com and see the books this man has written. If you are into Linux at all, you will love this site. When you do make your way over there make sure you also check out http://linuxredneck.blogspot.com This is mine and my friends blog and where you can download our newest podcast. We take pride in what we do and should have a new podcast every month or we will at least try to.

Cool Software That I Use In Everyday Life.

I always install Audacity, this program allows me to record our podcast. I like it because I can put in the sounds that we usually put into it, and we can also export the file as an OGG or an MP3. Another Cool program that I use a lot is called Xchat, this program allows me to connect to the people who I help and they help me (mostly the ladder). Amsn, this program is quite good and is an MSN messanger look a like program, they have pretty much got all of the little things and most of the major things worked out on it to where it acts and looks like MSN messanger.
One good thing about using Linux is the plain and simple fact that most of the time it runs faster than Windows and there are very few viruses written for it and there are no known Spyware written for it. That just makes me wonder what MS does with all of that money that it makes selling what all it does. This I find funny because most of the Linux Distributions come with so much software, it makes the head spin. What do you get with Windows? A slap to the face the says hello sucker, you just bought an OS that will crash consistently, get infected with Spyware, and make you buy you virus protection. What sense does this make? Knowing that there is better and it is FREE! That just shows what MS does, they buy big business! That is my opinion anyhow, and I will stick to that to my death. This is always going to be my vision, and that is that the world needs to be involved with Linux as most of the documentation for it is free for the taking and will always be!
When I am talking to a client about all that Linux will do for them, they cannot believe that it is all free, when I take them to the sites for downloading it. They always go back to WOW! This is the factor that I live on. The WOW factor.
Now that I have more of your attention, let me introduce you to my version of the wow factor. This is all being done with Dapper Drake Ubuntu, it comes with Open Office 2 installed by default, Evolution Mail, and just a whole slew of other software installed by default! I am completely stoked and ready to roll with this, I just hope that I get this one out before the official release it! When we all get a new distro, we always get into a huff when we cannot find the things we are custom to using. I get all panicky when I cannot find my Open Office, or my Networking Management stuff. This just gets into a bit of frustration, but it does not have to be. If you need to find something, the main thing to do is look it up on line, or maybe even in the MAN pages. I personally get a laugh out of the simple questions I field on a daily basis. Like “how do I get from the command line” This is a simple task. Let me upgrade you from your old DOS or maybe even very old version of Linux. Then let me take an hour or two of your time to show you your new system. This will work on most customers that are open enough to have Linux, if they aren't don't sweat it! Get them using Firefox, instead of IE, get them using Evoluiton instead of Outlook, get them using Kaffine instead of Windows Media player, slowly integrate them into the Open Source world. Don't give up! They do come around eventually. When they do, it is usually in a very big way.

Using Synaptic Package Manager.

Honestly I don't use this much any more just because I prefer to install most of my software through the command line. My friend has gotten me into using that method because to me it is just easier. If you do use Synaptic, it is easy and straight forward to do so. I usually start my session with Mark all upgrade. Don't ask me why, there is no rhyme or reason, it just assures me that I am starting off with an up to date system. The best way I can suggest for you to get used to your system is to play with it, most of the time you cannot mess it up so bad that you would have to reinstall your OS, it is possible but not too likely.

Dapper Drake Ubuntu

2006-05-18T07:06:00.000-07:00

Okay! Enough!! I am officially sticking with Ubuntu! I have tried serveral different things with most of the BIG Distro's and have given up! I have a very hard time getting my proper video driver for most, and the only one to get it right is Ubuntu. Then I cannot get my wireless to work with them. I can at least get it working in Ubuntu.
I now have a good thing happening, I have my wireless going good, the video isn't quite right yet. But the good news is, I can install most anything I want or need to. This is why I have been sticking with Ubuntu. The main thing is I do want to keep current with other Distro's and with me being hooked on Ubuntu, it makes it hard for me to do much with the others. Now, the down side is I am running Dapper Drake which to this date, is still not official, which of course means that things will break. I have been sort of fortunate in that area but still, the team is working hard. The best thing I have found about Ubuntu has been the straight up fact the most things just work with it and all of the information I have read leads to one thing, it is the best Distro that can be found (for the newbie).

Using The Command Line

One of the first things I do after an install of Ubuntu is I put the Terminal on the upper task bar, Synaptic package manager and Oo writer as well. This just makes things a little bit easier. When I fire it up for the first time I always do the following, fire up the Terminal and type the following, sudo apt-get update. Then I type in sudo apt-get upgrade. You can run most any program from the command line by just simply typing it's name. There is a new command that I like pretty well (new to me) try typing in whois or the ip of the address. The best one that I like is traceroute. This one give me more information.

Downloadin And Installing Software

A very handy tool is called apt-get. What I do is I type into the Terminal, sudo apt-get install , or if I do not know the name of the program I am looking for, I always type in sudo apt-cache searc This will list all of the known packages in your sources.list file. Now I am sitting at my sister-in laws house in New Hamburgh. This is kind of cool seeing as I am on line with my wireless connection. This is looking to be pretty promising so far. When you get to the point that I have with this, you will realize what a celebration it is to have this Broadcom wireless working without any sort of problems. The bad part is that I get some fun out of getting all of the knowledge from doing this all. Now that I am having so much fun with all of this, I am getting into lots of trouble with it all. There is another way to get software installed on your system. It is called Synaptic Package Manager. This is a good tool and the way you get to it is to go to System>Administration>Synaptic. Then what I do is search for it. The best thing about all of this is the plain and simple fact that you can add or remove repositories just at the click of the mouse. By clicking on the Setting---->Repositories, you can add a couple of different ones that will enable you to get a whole bunch more software.
The downfall to Linux in my eyes is that people just don't want to go through yet one more learning curve. If they really wanted to get an Operating System, they would put us the technicians through a lot more crap than they actually do. Right now 99% of my clients are running Windows, and I am starting to bring it up more and more to them and some of them really are warming up to the idea that there is something better than windows out there that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to use. Open Office replaces Microsoft Office rather well. The Gimp has come just about far enough to replace Adobe Photo Shop, there are a lot of applications that are really coming close to cutting the mustard and several surpass cutting the mustard and get into the area of bleeding edge. I like the bleeding edge but there are a few problems that they don't really talk about. Like the drivers for a Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter. This can be extremely daunting, especially if you try to rush things, trust me I do speak from a lot of experience.

Using SuSe 10

2006-04-30T20:05:00.000-07:00

Today I installed SuSe 10 and even though my Broadcom wireless is not even detected. I did get my D-Link DWL-G650 card working, I do want to try and get the Broadcom going because I don't like carrying more than I have to. I have installed Kismit. So far it has been pretty cool, but I am still learning what I am doing with it, but I like what I see right now. I have also been looking at a few other things like maybe using XFCE for my desktop as I really want to do some more war driving. The main reason for the war driving is to try and get some more customers when they see what I can do with a bare minimum of effort. Now, as of this afternoon I will no longer be providing Internet to anyone other than my family because I have recieved some complaints that the service is slow. It is slow because I choose to limit the people who don't pay for what they recieve, thus as of this afternoon, they will no longer be able to connect to the wireless aspect of my home network. Maybe now that I will have a secure, (or atleast as secure as wireless is) I will be able to do some of the other things that I would like, such as building a base Comodore 64 Emulator. This has been a goal for a little while but as with most things I get flustered and the idea goes to the waste and the computer just sits there and does nothing. This is going to change as I am going to take that computer to a friend and we will sit there and research which OS to use because SuSe 10 will just be too much for it. The computer is a 466 MHZ with 64 MB RAM that was given to me for the purpose of playing around and seeing what all is possible with older hardware. I may have gotten into some good ideas for getting the wireless to run. I found a setting and am waiting for a reply from one of the lists I belong to as to what to do for what it is asking me for, then maybe I will have it.

Dapper Drake Ubuntu

2006-04-27T18:13:00.000-07:00

I am now using Dapper Drake Ubuntu, installed it last night, got the wireless working well. Went to bed, came out and started the laptop, the wireless adapter was gone! Not in the Networking areas, no where! I went in and reinstalled Dapper, not knowing what I did wrong. Now I have the wireless working well, all I have to do is go to my favorite wireless coffee house and see if I can get it to hook up to the network there. That has been my problem in the past, the inability to hook up to anyone else's wireless network. Keeping in miind that I have the Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter, I would seriously rethink my buying this laptop as I have only been able to get it to work, is with Ubuntu. I am sort of surprised that all of the distributions I have used admitidly is not a lot. FC5, Dapper Ubuntu, SuSe 10, I have not tried Mandriva just yet, but will sometime in the future just to say that I have tried it.
Now on to bigger and better things, I have been working with Blender the 3D rendering program that has been kind of difficult to grasp. I am to the point that I can get a ball to move around the screen fairly smooth, and sometimes get it to bounce. The problem is that it doesn't quite look real as of yet.

Xchat

2006-04-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

To get to wftl-lug nuts using Xchat, do the following, bring up Xchat. Then bring up Xchat, and click on add. Then type in what you want to call the channel. Then click on Edit, and in the servers box, type in chat.marcelgagne.com/6667 then beside channels to join, you will type in #wftlchat. Then you just have to click on close and click on connect. Then you are done.

2006-04-16T20:08:00.000-07:00

More Ideas From Captain Kevin

I have now got my wireless working. Maybe now I can get some fun things done, Like now Charles and I can take the long Easter Weekend to work on getting a few podcasts done.

One of my favorite time killing games in Linux is called Bug Squish, the reason for this is there is next to no violence but maybe a few Skeeters and other little annoying bugs. Or I like to play Gweled a single player, Multi-Level Bejeweled like game. I enjoy this one because it keeps the blood from boiling when you just cannot get an application to compile proper or just need to relax from a hard day at work. Another thing I like to do is play with Audio programs like Audacity which we use for recording the podcasts, or Hydrogen, which you can record your own flavor of music, and then save it as a WAV file and import it to Audacity for adding to the podcast. Now today Charles and I are supposed to work on the new Podcast and maybe the next couple as well. Beamie if you are reading this, yes we are getting ready to stage one good come back! Now all I have to do is work on maybe getting my wireless to work under any circumstances. It is working but I have to bring it up manually and I also have not been able to get it working on any others but my own network. I have grown quite board with the wireless problems, I have now been playing with RDP through Ubuntu, all I have been doing with it is remoting into my wifes computer and running her ant-spyware and anti-virus... and maybe the odd chat program. But if I wasn't such an honest person I could have done lots of things with it. I have just recently gotten laid off from my job, so what I am going to do is take my spare computers, turn them into a few things like email servers, web servers that allows drag and drop from my desktop, into another directory on the server. or allows me to FTP into it and get my files onto the desktops of other clients.

The best thing I think that I could possibly do is get an email server going, maintain it for a while and document the holly terror out of it.

I may even get some things done like maybe getting some things like the email server working and also the web server working. I may even get a true server out of all of this, I just don't know yet. What I feel would be ideal would be a server that combines all of these things. A drag and drop web server. an email server and an educational server . That would host say the Call For Help episodes for me, or really I have no clue as of yet but I am having my brain in overdrive with it all.

Working with RDP in Ubuntu

2006-04-15T19:48:00.000-07:00

Right this moment I am remoting into my wifes Windows XP machine, it is really quite cool to be able to this seeing as I haven't played with this at all in over a year. I am going to try this with my dads computer over this holiday weekend and see what I can do to have some fun with lots of people. It is Sunday morning and I am stuck watching Dotto Tech. I just have one question about this show. Why do they never cover Linux? They allways cover Windows and Mac but why will they never even mention Linux, I think that if we all got together and wrote this show, we would all see this guy start learning the Linux world as we all know it. I went to his web site and found no contact us button to eb able to voice my opinion. I started this some time ago, the problem has been the plain and simple fact that I am testing Fedora Core 5. But I am going to continue with this entry. I use the RDP protocol because I am basically lazy and don't want to get off of my but to deal with my wifes windows computer, I also remote into my desktop from my laptop and so on and no forth. I will leave it at that for now and see what else I see when I finally get the time to reinstall Ubuntu some time in the next week or so.
Y'all come back soon ya heer!

Got it! Broadcom 4318 Wireless

2006-04-12T18:36:00.000-07:00

I now have my Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter working, and am going to describe how I did things.
The first thing I am going to do is direct you to this url https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Broadcom43xx?highlight=%28broadcom%29
Then what I have done is everything to the point of the first Now you're ready to skip down to the "Skip down to here!" header.

Then you MUST do
sudo iwconfig eth1 mode auto
sudo iwconfig eth1 rate 11M
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap any

Then what I did was sudo dhclient eth1, then I try to ping say www.google.ca or something to that effect and if it work, then you are now connected through the wireless.

It has been over night now, and I have to bring the wireless up manually for some reason. Other than that it works quite well, the only thing you have to do to bring it up manually is to do this;
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap any
sudo dhclient eth1

Then I ping wwww.google.ca to be sure that it worked and then I am done.

Well, I thought I was done. I went to my favorite coffee house today and guess what.... I could not connect. This is getting to be a funny thing, I have never had this much trouble out of once piece of hardware.

One heck of a good day!

2006-03-19T17:07:00.000-08:00

Working with Ubuntu build 6.0.6.

So far I like this build ok, just I wish that I could get my wireless to work. I have tried all of the wiki's and still nothing, I work on it until I get frustrated then move onto another project. Then when I feel like doing it again, I do. Now I do not know what to try next, all I have done this far has done nothing but frustrate me and my friends. I think what I will do is get the D-link working with Ndiswrapper. Maybe I will have some fun with that next. I think I have named this one wrong, I noticed earlier that it is named 6.04. I don't know why I would have done that other than maybe I saw it somewhere and it just stuck. I will leave as in saying that I am human too.
I have just purchased my own car and will now be able to go around to my customers and get out own groceries with out a taxi or even calling my dad to borrow his van. Maybe now I will be able to get a real job with real income. And now back to the real work, I have been very disappointed with all of the distributions that I have tried this far, I have not been able to get my Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter built in and none of them will use it properly. Dapper Drake Ubuntu, this distro actually detects it, but you have to do some serious amount of toying with it to get it to where it detects the network, but then I haven't been able to get on the network, most of the time it will go through the DHCP steps, then it will give me a temporary failure in name resolution error. This is very frustrating as I cannot get my D-link DWL-G650 wireless to work with it either. When I try for the D-link, the directions tell me to do a lot that I do, then still cannot get it, so I will give up for now, the reason I like Ubuntu so much is I have been using it for the past year and a half now and everything I need is built into the Repositories or very easy to build. But I am officially looking for a distro that I like and that is as easy to use as this has been.
Thanx for reading and y'all come back soon!