WICD as Network Manager

August 12, 2008 Ubuntu, Gentoo, Software, Linux No Comments

Linux TuxWell Gnome has Network Manager and it might work for some people but it did not work for me with WPA and Passphrases. So I started looking around at some of the other network managers and the one that looked pretty good was wicd. The home page for it is here. Now the reasons why I liked it, it looks just like every other Network Manager. But when you really dive deep in to the web site you find out that it is totally customizable, and they have an IRC channel, which means that if I run in to some problems (and I did) I can maybe find some time when the developers hang out.

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Mass Hardware Clean-Up on the way!

May 6, 2008 Ubuntu, Gentoo, Microsoft Windows, Linux No Comments

My kids have been bothering me for a while to give them one of my laptops so that they can play their Internet (webkinz… or something like that) and local games.

Well I finally decided that it is time for me to give them this. So today I went on mass overhaul of my systems here.

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