hads | Anyone know any currently-available-in-NZ working USB WiFi adapters? | 00:13 |
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mwhudson | hads: the ones sold by DSE seemed to work ok, although i don't know about current availability | 00:38 |
* ajmitch had awful trouble with one bought from DSE with a ralink chipset, it was a linksys-branded adpater | 00:39 | |
hads | mwhudson: Thanks, I've got a customer asking for one so looking for resaleable ones. No experience with them myself which always makes it more interesting. | 00:40 |
mwhudson | hads: ah, fair enough | 00:40 |
hads | I remember a ralink one years ago that did work and them the driver was removed from the kernel | 00:40 |
mwhudson | ajmitch: funnily enough the DSE branded one worked fine | 00:40 |
ajmitch | you'll also find that similar model names can end up with different chipsets | 00:40 |
mwhudson | although yes, that aspect does lead to fun | 00:41 |
ajmitch | it gets very frustrating trying to track down :) | 00:41 |
hads | Yeah, same thing with routers, dvb cards etc. very annoying. | 00:42 |
mwhudson | i paid $20 or something more for my laptop to get a known intel wifi chip rather than "lenovo wifi" | 00:43 |
ajmitch | I have intel wifi as well, but it wasn't always the most reliable | 00:44 |
ajmitch | most of that was due to overheating though | 00:44 |
hads | I've had two thinkpads with Intel, both disconnect occasionally and need a power down/up to fix it. | 00:44 |
ajmitch | I got used to running rmmod & modprobe to reload the driver | 00:45 |
mwhudson | just goes to show noone gets it right all of the time i guess | 00:46 |
mwhudson | "03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)" seems to work fine though | 00:46 |
hads | Yeah, sometimes that works ajmitch, sometimes not. | 00:46 |
mwhudson | way better than the atheros thingy in my macbook anywya | 00:46 |
hads | Mines a 5300 | 00:47 |
ajmitch | 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection | 00:47 |
ajmitch | mine's probably slightly older | 00:48 |
snail | anyone know who is behind http://matapuna.thinktank.co.nz/ ? | 01:43 |
ibeardslee | Dave Moskovitz ? | 01:54 |
ojwb | indeed, there's a "contact Dave" in the last paragraph where Dave is a link | 02:06 |
ojwb | actually, it's all a link | 02:07 |
ojwb | just in nearly the same colour | 02:07 |
snail | the project has a source forge page which shows a single commit ~ 7 years ago | 02:47 |
ibeardslee | oh | 02:49 |
ajmitch | that's a bit dated | 02:53 |
hads | Damn. Someone just emailed to say that our website doesn't work in IE9. | 05:57 |
ajmitch | what a shame | 05:58 |
hads | I think I'm going to stop thinking about IE6. | 06:03 |
ajmitch | the sooner it dies, the better | 06:04 |
ojwb | even MS agree there: http://www.ie6countdown.com/ | 06:05 |
ajmitch | MS just disagree on which browser you should switch to :) | 06:06 |
hads | Just what I was thinking. | 06:06 |
ojwb | that site would read better if they did s/6//g on it | 06:06 |
hads | Interesting. Over the past 6 months, FF counts 39% of visits vs. IE 26% though revenue from IE beats FF by 1.5 times. | 06:09 |
ojwb | those FF cheapskates | 06:09 |
ajmitch | must be those linux zealots, they never pay for anything | 06:09 |
hads | haha | 06:10 |
ojwb | is FF on windows different to FF on linux? | 06:10 |
hads | It can be, just looking at that. | 06:10 |
hads | Windows revenue beats Linux by around 6.5x | 06:13 |
hads | Linux and Mac are quite close. | 06:14 |
ojwb | per page view? | 06:15 |
hads | Total revenue | 06:16 |
hads | Windows makes up 72% of all visits with FF+IE+Chrome | 06:16 |
hads | Sorry, plus 1.5% for Opera | 06:16 |
ojwb | so probably not so different per visit | 06:17 |
* ojwb wonders where network manager has gone | 06:18 | |
ojwb | hmm, uninstalled somehow | 06:24 |
mwhudson | congrats? | 06:27 |
mwhudson | although nm has only really annoyed me once in the last year or so | 06:28 |
ojwb | mwhudson: well, I can't say I like it | 06:31 |
ojwb | but if I'm going to uninstall it, I'd like something else to do its job | 06:31 |
hads | heh | 06:31 |
ojwb | now it just seems to think eth0 isn't managed | 06:31 |
ojwb | hmm, think I'll have to try turning it off and on again | 06:32 |
hads | DO you have anything in /etc/network/interfaces | 06:32 |
hads | From memory if an if is mentioned there then NM won't do stuff. | 06:32 |
hads | I wonder if this passport photo will pass the inspection. I'll send it anyway and see what happens. | 06:35 |
hads | Right, off. | 06:35 |
ojwb | allow-hotplug eth0 | 06:36 |
ojwb | iface eth0 inet dhcp | 06:36 |
ojwb | not sure if that's normally there | 06:36 |
* ojwb tries removing it | 06:36 | |
ojwb | hads: cool, that fixed it - thanks | 06:40 |
hads | ojwb: Neat. | 10:02 |
chilts | morning | 20:20 |
chilts | wow, I was first for a change! | 20:20 |
ajmitch | morning | 20:25 |
ajmitch | yeah, I'm not even at work yet | 20:25 |
* chilts is on the train | 20:48 | |
ibeardslee | morning | 21:00 |
hads | Morning | 21:49 |
snail | mÅrena everyone. | 22:09 |
mwhudson | morning | 23:29 |
Atamira | morena | 23:49 |
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