I hiked 4 miles today.
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
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Amazingly, I was able to complete a hike at Rattlesnake Ledge. I got this video on the top of the Ledge:
Here are some pretty tall trees:
One day to Fedora 11!
Monday, June 8th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Fedora 11 is being released tomorrow. Unfortunately, I can’t host a party. I would if I could. There are a host of new features in Fedora 11, such as fingerprint login, new versions of all the desktop environments, the Windows cross-compiler and a new version of X.org.
Download Fedora 11 when it releases at fedoraproject.org
WordTwit had to be reconfigured..
Friday, June 5th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
If you were wondering why posts weren’t showing up at @oksblog, after I upgraded WordTwit, I had to reconfigure. This problem is now fixed, and this post is testing WordTwit.
School!
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
by Daniel T.
My school gets out tomorrow (friday), so I’m really happy. I’ll probably sleep through most of it.
My school year sucked. This year, was my first year being homeschooled. Apart from being homeschooled, I realized how much I hate my mother. So, I go to my grandparents house everyday, and do schoolwork.
So, I’m looking forward to summer. Looking at how the weather is now, I’m not too certain I’ll end up enjoying it though.
To the End!
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
by G. Liu
For everyone, school’s almost out. Summer is approaching, and the enduring and relentless heat has driven girls at our school to break dress codes.
It was a year full of memories for me. When I started school back in September, I had to switch classes because “they” screwed up my schedule. After I switched classes, I discovered that I had a test on a book. While everyone got two weeks to read the book, I got three days, and yet, my teacher expected me to pass the test like everyone else. I didn’t pass the test and that ruined my grade for the rest of the year.
The first semester of school went on without much more happening. Tests, projects, quizzes, waking up too early, sleeping too late every single day. This was the case until December, when school was happily interrupted by storm after storm of snow, much more than we’ve gotten for the past twelve years. Some days we had late starts, and some days, school was canceled. Kids enjoyed the days they had off from school, but snow plow drivers and those who still had to go to work did not.
The second semester came quickly, and I tried some new things. I played a piano accompaniment for the orchestra and for several people at their recital. I went to our school’s restaurant and tried some great food there. I conducted the orchestra and went to a college to perform there. It seemed like I had finally found the zest of high school, even though I wasn’t in athletics or too many school activities.
And finally, after a few more concerts, contests, and competitions, it is almost time to say goodbye. Today, our principal recognized our seniors for their excellent work and their legacy at our school in a special assembly. They will graduate next Saturday and move on. For me, that’s still a while away, but a time will come, and when it does, I will look back at my twelve wonderful years and wonder: “What will be in store for me for the next twelve years?”
I’m back as well!
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
by G. Liu
Wow, after so long waiting for Darren’s blog to be put back up, it’s finally up!
During the time that this blog was down, I actually created a new blog on Wordpress, which this blog is based off of. It’s at deathgleaner.wordpress.com
But now that this blog is back, I don’t know what to do. Should I keep my blog on Wordpress? Or should I post here? My previous preference before this blog went down was to post on this blog, but for now, you can find me active (more or less) on both my Wordpress and this blog.
Update (3/6/09 17:15PST): I have made up my mind. School-related stuff will go here and everything else on my other blog at Wordpress. Of course, I’m flexible, so keep updated!
Update (9/6/09 20:15PST): Maybe not just school stuff will go on this blog. I will decide at my own will which blog I’ll post to.
We’re back!
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Yes, after too much downtime, OKS Blog is BACK!!
Wireless with the BCM43xx in Fedora 10
Monday, January 12th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Unfortunately, the BCM43xx series of wireless cards is very popular in laptops today, but thankfully the popularity is decreasing. Fedora 10 is actually not difficult, but harder than Ubuntu, to use the BCM43xx cards.
Make sure you have root access. This cannot be performed without root access. This is for firmware version 4 and higher, my Acer Aspire 3690 used that firmware, so this is what I’m giving instructions for.
yum install b43-fwcutter
cd /tmp
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
bunzip2 broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xvf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
echo “alias wlan0 b43″ >> /etc/modprobe.conf
system-network-config
I should have an external hard drive tomorrow so that I can install Fedora 10 then I’ll correct these instructions. For some reason my internal card doesn’t like these drivers (last I checked) but it likes the Windows drivers, so I may use ndiswrapper. Who knows?
A large majority of the post was forked from http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras.
