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Been a while since I put up any music, here is one that rocks my boat from Dope’s new album No Regrets

Dope - Nothing For Me Here

Finally, after several part working efforts, a good solid working solution.

The identifying part:

Netgear wg111v2

Device ID: 0846:6a00 NetGear, Inc. WG111 WiFi (v2)

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In my last writings you will have seen that I was trying out SLiTaz on my old Dell laptop with its 4GB hard drive, but following investigations in to terminal based applications I decided to head back to an ubuntu base. The main reason for this was that I had started of on ubuntu when really getting into linux, and was comfortable with the operational environment, plus the ease of package installation using apt or synaptic. So the hard drive was wiped again and a command line install of xubuntu 8.10 commenced. Following this I did install two graphical desktop environments, my old friends openbox and xfce, which are both pretty zippy, but the main aim was to try to use the command line as much as possible. For this I followed KMandla’s software guide and used dvtm, moc, mc, calcurse, htop and elinks. Of course, these are all available in the ubuntu repositories but I have linked to their home sites for info purposes. (more…)