Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Being a self-taught beginner at one stage, I understand that code formatting and other concerns NOT regarding syntax is taken for granted, I mean, when you pick up your first programming language, the one thing you want is for your application to work, heck, when some beginners first started programming PHP, they have no idea what a “coding standard” is let alone it’s existence and haphazardly hack away line for line at their scripts without regard.
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
Now that I have a bit of time on my hands I thought I’d organise my categories a little better. I’ve added a new category called “Tips for beginners” which will consist of grass roots, entry level tips for those who have just embarked upon the journey of Web Development with PHP.
I’ve also created a new category for my “General Notes”. I’ve noticed that from time to time, I find myself thinking about subject matter that would be good to share, but is not a big enough subject to make a blog post about. So I created this category to serve as a repository for such ideas about small but important subject matter.
These new sub categories can be found under PHP Programming. As a final note, I’d like to add that I’ve moved the PHP Design Patterns category as a sub category to PHP Programming. Please update your feeds.
Regards,
RV David.
Monday, May 14th, 2007
After fixing my wireless issues with Kubuntu Feisty, I went on a little break. I was sick of looking at my dual monitors and eye-candy rotating desktop cube *rotates cube* - well ok… maybe not the cube, but now that I’m back, I’d like to bring your attention to formatting your PHP code.
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Well, it’s been a while since my last post, previously explained in a previous entry. I’ve managed to fix things and found out a thing or two as to why wireless support broke in feisty fawn, while still working properly in Edgy Eft.
It drove me “up the wall” (as we’d say here in colloquial Australia), but I was determined to get my system working and so I did.
Check out these posts for more information - I’ve broken it up so that you aren’t flooded with a big essay on completely different, but somewhat related subject matter:
- Linux RT818X driver crashes 2.6.20.x kernel
- How I got my Belkin f5d6001 wireless card running on Feisty Fawn
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Note: there’s been a lot of traffic to this page, and just out of interest, I’d like to know if this piece of advice has actually helped anyone out, so if it has aided you in your quest to wireless connectivity, has led you through yet another wild goose-chase, or is flawed in any manner or form, please leave a comment and I’ll make adjustments as required.
I was determined to get my wireless card up and running - There are reports out there that belkin f5d6001 cards have worked without incident for others, so I should be able to figure out WHY there are so many incidents that prevent me from running mine.
After trawlling through the internet I find out about ndiswrapper. I install ndiswrapper and as suggested use the drivers provided with my card. “belkin f5d6001″ - the driver gives you enough hope in a sense that it detects your network card, but does not detect anything else (no access points, NOTHING! but you can attempt to configure it).
After days of trying this, that and other different ways of setting up wireless configurations, I came across some post saying that you could also use rtl8180 windows drivers with ndiswrapper to make things work. I was desperate so I dug a little deeper remembering that I had reviewed the blacklist and found a bug report about Linux r818x drivers. This confirmed some things for me and so I downloaded the windows driver from realtek website.
Here are the following steps I did to make things happen:
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Exasperated, exhausted and highly irritated, I hoarsely whisper a rhetorical question toward my monitors with acid dripping from my fangs:
Why does my wireless Card work on Edgy but not on Feisty?!
(oh! …and every other word was an F* word)
After doing some idle research, I found that according to a bug report in the ubuntu launchpad, the r818x linux driver that is used and works well in the 2.6.17 kernel causes kernel 2.6.20 to crash!
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