After an achy day in a coffee shop chair yesterday I spent some time last night looking up co-working again.  Nothing new has happened on Co-Working Boston page since I was last there.  However the CSMonitor recently ran an article covering Betahouse, a local co-working facility, previous covered in this boston.com article. Lazy Cow (…) [...]

I learned this little dance while Network Manager was having a problem with sleep and resume. Bringing my laptop out of sleep always had problems getting networking again. Network Manager would die upon resume so this is how I would get my wireless card (iwl3945) to return after resuming from sleep. I’m looking forward to [...]

Last post about Network Manager for a little while, I swear… The current state of Network Manager doesn’t allow you to easily manage the wireless access points that you connect to and how it connects to them. NM also doesn’t allow you to easily stop it from auto-switching from wireless to wired networks when you [...]

Yesterday morning on the bus I was talking to Dan and asked if Network Manager could export a signal when it is actively searching for networks. As I mentioned in the previous post and many people pointed out in the comments that we need some feedback when the wireless card is actively looking for new [...]

In the web world every browser needs a refresh button because the main protocol (http) doesn’t allow for the web browser client to know if there were changes made on the remote end. Lots of MacGyver like fixes using AJAX are built to accommodate the fact that the web is stateless and yet we use [...]

Today’s word is rictus, meaning a gaping grin or grimace. Probably relating to me miss-spelling yesterdays word in the title or possibly other stupid things I did. Notifications Rodrigo makes a bunch of good points in his entry. The dialogs that Gaim and Evo use are ridiculous and disturbing but just using notification bubbles doesn’t [...]

So sweet, today I connected to Red Hat’s VPN via Network Manager. Check it out. After selecting the RHVPN item I got the normal little popup message from Red Hat, that I never read and always appears on VPN login. Then everything thing worked, I was able to connect to mail and the internal IRC. [...]

How did I know that ad-hoc networking was going to start with this. NetworkManager is getting ZeroConf and ad-hoc network suppport now I guess it’s a good sign that I can’t log on to that network