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Archive for April, 2006

16 Apr, 2006

bcm43xx, NetworkManager and Gentoo

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

I’ve got one of those delightful broadcom network chips in my PowerBook, which didn’t have Linux support for a long time. Thanks for nothing Broadcom, you bastards. All the thanks go to the guys who have spent long hours reverse engineering it, and developing a driver from scratch for it. Big ups.
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16 Apr, 2006

Kerr-unit’s going away

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Had a bit of a bash on Thursday night to show off Kerr-Unit, before dropping him off at the airport Friday morning.

It just won’t be the same not having him around to nag me about going to the gym, and now I won’t be able to hang shit on him about his gay brown jumper. [...]

16 Apr, 2006

Working at VPAC

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

So, i’ve been working at VPAC for about two weeks now. It’s nice to be busy and doing stuff I enjoy.
When I first arrived, I was greeted by this robot made by Mike, from cardboard boxes and packing material from the cluster nodes that had recently been delivered. What I didn’t realise was that Mike [...]