Previously, I posted about odyssey to get belkin wireless dongles working with Ubuntu. Actually, the previous post was tame compared to what I’ve hacked together with these things over the years, including getting them to work on Damn Small Linux where I had to ferret out the text for the entire wpa_supplicant configuration using kernel…
I don’t write C++ all that often these days, but I suppose that I spent so many years with it that it never really feels foreign to me when I come back to it. What does oftentimes feel foreign is generating a Makefile when developing in Linux. I’ve made enough of them over the years…
In an earlier post, I described how one can go about installing a Belkin USB dongle and a very recent version of Ubuntu on a dinosaur PC. Tonight, I’m going to describe a similar thing, except that instead a new piece of hardware, it’s a dinosaur that came with the PC itself. I must admit,…
As I’ve previously mentioned, one of the things that I spend a good bit of time doing is home automation. For prototyping, I have a bunch of very old computers that I’ve acquired for free. These are scattered around the house (much to the dismay of anyone with a sense of decor) and I use…
