Monthly Archives: March 2011

Safely unplugging Western Digital My Passport USB drive

3/29/2011 – 2:06 pm

Having recently acquired a 1TB WD My Passport SE USB 3.0, I would hate to destroy it. I noticed it shuts down when removed from a Windows system safely, but simply unmounting under Kubuntu via the Device Notifier applet does not have the same effect. Naturally, I become worried about destroying my device. Fortunately, there [...]

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Enabling AirLink 101 Golden N AWLL6075 on Ubuntu 10.10

3/18/2011 – 10:43 am

I just grabbed one of these adapters for $10. Naturally it doesn’t work out of the box. Fortunately someone found a solution before I had to fuss with it too much. usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl819xU rtl819xU:FirmwareRequest92S(): failed with TCR-Status: a rtl819xU:ERR!!! _rtl8192_up(): initialization is failed! The solution is easy, though. $ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/rtl8192sfw.bin.gz [...]

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Hosed by CenturyLink

3/14/2011 – 11:59 am

We’re looking to move our business address and CenturyLink can’t let us keep our existing number. Naturally, we’re still in the service area, so we can get a new number. If we’d rather port our number to another service — can’t image why we’d want to keep the number we’ve had for years that all [...]

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