Dude, where's my umbilical cord? (sis900 ethernet not working)

I seem to have no end of networking issues recently.

Last night, Andrea had to reboot an Acer 5003 laptop to do some online banking in Internet Explorer. The machine hibernated. When I rebooted in Linux this morning, the ethernet failed to work.

I rmmod'd the module (sis900) and modprobed …

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The times they are a-changin'

Come gather round people.... (yes I've been listening to too much Dylan lately).

So my trusty 4 year old wireless router (netgear wgr614 rev1) apparently gave up some sort of ghost recently. The ethernet ports still route, and the wireless still sends out a signal, but I can't get an …

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Utah (Salt Lake area) DSL or Cable suggestions....

Dear (Utah) Lazyweb-

We are moving into a house in Bountiful, Utah soon. Anyone in the area know if I have any options other than Qwest (DSL) or Comcast (cable) for a high speed connection? Any reccomendations? Are people satisfied with the service they get? If so, who are you …

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Warconfig - feedback requested...

I'm working on an open source tool for managing war files called warconfig. We have a need for this at work. I have a pretty detailed write up here. Warconfig is a tool for deploying, upgrading, and rolling back war files on Tomcat (currently only version 5.5 on Gentoo …

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Missing one image....

I saw this a few days ago linked to a blog (apparently here is an older version), if I can find where the original came from I'd give them credit.... (Google, how do I seach on an image, not for an image????) Anyway it was being passed around in email …

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More computers, less keyboards. A plug for synergy2

I've been working mainly with two laptops recently. I normally use ergonomic keyboards with my desktops and was noticing that my wrists were sort of twitching. The solution? Buy a new keyboard. (So I went out and bought an ergonomic keyboard that would work with my laptops (read has usb …

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