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Lots of driving today; about five hours worth, to be specific. My neck, shoulders, and left arm hurt like hell - I think I badly need to readjust the driver's seat, as this happens every time I drive for a long time in that car...

Driving into downtown Albany to pick up Adrienne from the train station[1] was...weird. The ramp complex coming off 787 and the brief glimpses of the city that I got made me feel like I was inside some immense machine, built by giants for some unknown purpose.

I got the ipw2100 card Alex lent me working in snark. Well, mostly working - I get "Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart" in my system log every few minutes, but it does seem to work overall. Will test WPA with it when I go home for intersession - hopefully I'll have better luck than I did with the Atheros card snark came with[2].

It snowed while I was gone. Everything's white, and the cratergiant pothole in the driveway is under a deceptive white blanket. I feel sorry for whoever fails to notice it and breaks an axle.

The end of the semester is nearing. Doom.

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[1]: Not that I was in downtown Albany for long - I ended up missing my turn and going quite a ways down 9/20 before realizing "hey, I was here when I dropped her off before" and turning onto 4 and going from there to pick her up, on the off chance that anyone cares.
[2]: God, the drivers (both madwifi and madwifi-ng) for Atheros cards are such an unbearable clusterfuck. Even this thing that spams my syslog has got to be better.

Date: 2005-11-28 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yellowpigs.livejournal.com
I'm having a heck of a time with an ipw2200 card in ubuntu; the driver module crashes at (seemingly) random intervals. Wireless drivers suck.

Date: 2005-11-28 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yellowpigs.livejournal.com
Yup, it's a nightmare. Between that card, an Airport (limited encryption capability), and an Airport Extreme (absolutely useless), I'm ready to give up on Linux wireless. And I can't believe how many wireless questions there are on mailing lists, etc.; I'm at the point now where when I see the word ndiswrapper, I just hit delete. The OpenBSD team has been trying to get wireless vendors to open up chipsets and work with F/LOSS developers, but the response hasn't been so great. *sigh*

Date: 2005-11-29 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstrjon32.livejournal.com
5 hours? Lame.

Jake and I did 4987 miles over thanksgiving break, so, what, figure a conservative average of 80 mph, thats about 62 hours in the car.

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