Become rich finding primes

$100,000 for the first individual or group to discover a 10,000,000 digit prime number. A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided exactly by 1 and itself. eg the first 6 prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13  

Click here for more details.

Ubuntu 8.04 rocks!

I own a HP Pavilion dv6626us (also known as the dv6625us entertainment laptop) AMD based laptop which previously had Fedora 8 running on a dedicated linux partition. Problem as with linux is always support for some hardware, in this case the laptop uses a broadcom 43xx based wifi network wireless card. Configuration takes a while using bcm43xx linux driver which can be obtained from here.  I decided over the weekend to retry ubuntu using the live cd which l use on and off. I installed ubuntu from the live cd, and after rebooting and running a lengthy neccessary update, a pop up appeared suggesting l install 2 crucial non-licensed drivers for the broadcom nic and the Nvidia geoforce go 7150m graphics card. Once l did this, l had full wireless connectivity without the need for a reboot!

How to be a good DBA

Free redgate eBook here on how to be an exceptional DBA – database administrator, DBA best practices etc.

BMW Gina

Most of my friends know l love bmws and other fast cars. Heres a video of the new BMW Gina concept car.

iPod

Wondering how to take apart your Apple iPod nano etc., click here.

Fedora 8, Fedora 9, HP6626us laptop wireless setup

4)

Hers the steps l took to get the broadcom bcm43xx wireless network card working under Fedora 9 (sulphur) on my HP dv6626us AMD Turion64 based laptop.

1)

[root@localhost ~]# yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package bcm43xx-fwcutter-006-4.fc9.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

2)

Download firmware

wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/source…80.53.0.tar.bz2

3)

[root@localhost steve]# cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0
[root@localhost broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0]# ls
kmod  libbcmcrypto.so  nas  WHERE_FROM  wl

4)

[root@localhost broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0]# cd kmod
[root@localhost kmod]# ls
wl_apsta_mimo.o  wl_apsta.o
[root@localhost kmod]# bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
*** WARNING ***
This file contains new version4
firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
you need latest bcm43xx development version
(wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don’t know what
this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
instead to extract the firmware.

filename   :  wl_apsta.o
version    :  4.80.53.0
MD5        :  9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0
microcodes :  4 5 11 13
pcms       :  4 5

… and so on………………
extracting bcm43xx_initval25.fw …
[root@localhost kmod]#

Now , reboot your laptop

Beijing Olympics – 2008

Pictures of joy leading to a well deserved silver at soccer for the Nigerian team!

Victory!

Victory!

Using a website without clicking..

See this website, http://www.dontclick.it/ and hopefully you can use it while strongly resisting the urge like l did to click away!!

Cool video for the week

Getaway In Stockholm 8: Honda Getaway Rider

Silverlight via Open Source

I use and work on Silverlight 2 development using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Heres an interesting development l just found out about callled Moonlight, which is geared towards being an open source implementation for unix/linux. Cant wait to try this on my linux distro Fedora. Heres the website link: http://go-mono.com/moonlight/

Another interesting development to watch is: eyeOS – web based operating system – see: http://eyeos.org/en/