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Broadcom wireless under Hardy (Alpha 5)
Problem: wireless not working even using bcm43xx fwcutter trick used on previous occasions successfully. Looked in system log – System>Administration>SystemLog kern.log ERROR: Firmware file “b43/ucode5.fw” not found or load failed. Huh? That’s not even a file made by bcm43xx. Initial diagnostics: lspci | grep Network returned: 02:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN [...]
Kexi review (Access bruiser but not Access Killer yet)
After my disappointing experiences with OpenOffice Base last year I was worried that Kexi wouldn’t be much good. But it was – within its limits. The interface seemed excellent and intuitive and even though it wasn’t anywhere near as familiar to me as the Access interface (many thousands of hours) I found myself getting quite [...]
PyInstaller Round 2
Round 1 was nearly 18 months ago (PyInstaller1.2) and enabled me to successfully deploy a GUI application as a folder (although the XP button styles weren’t quite right – solved below). Round 2 lasted about 8 hours and involved pyInstaller 1.3 on XP with python 2.5, wxPython 2.8.7.1, and win32com 2.1.0. If I’d had these [...]