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London 2008

ms24503 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:05:09 +0000

Travelled on 10/6 to London with my family on a short vacation. Here are some pictures, more to follow.

Saw and visited Maplin electronics, a store from which l used to mail-order electronic components and wait for ages for the shipment to west africa to arrive when l got hooked on micro-electronics, z80 microprocessors etc.

On Thursday we visited the Greenwich Observatory. We took london bus #188 to Greenwich and walked the rest of the way through the vast green park to the observatory.

Become rich finding primes

ms24503 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:05:18 +0000

$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!

ms24503 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:00:19 +0000

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

ms24503 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:23:15 +0000

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

BMW Gina

ms24503 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:16:44 +0000

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

iPod

ms24503 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:13:00 +0000

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

Fedora 8, Fedora 9, HP6626us laptop wireless setup

ms24503 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:08:17 +0000

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.

[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

Download firmware

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

[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

[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

ms24503 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:01:48 +0000

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

Victory!

Using a website without clicking..

ms24503 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:12:50 +0000

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

ms24503 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:07:51 +0000

Getaway In Stockholm 8: Honda Getaway Rider