November 18, 2011
Atheros, It Just Works
Good morning! I got an SMS this morning that Christian was all aboard his Manchester airport plane to head back to Indianapolis/Bloomington. I dropped the girls off at their schools and head down to Boxborough. I took a break from the audio book and listened to The Best Podcast in the Universe on the drive down.
I'm all caught up on my email and my daily builds. Now just enjoying the Friday "Bagel Day" bagels and getting ready to debug two recent failures.
In only ~30 hours Comcast will finally arrive and give me the channels I've been paying for for about a month but haven't seen.
SSDs (solid state disks) live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Makes me just a bit nervous.
Went with a friend from my AMD days for lunch at New London Pizza.
This is making the rounds for jokes in the company. DOSBox ported to BlackBerry PlayBook, brings MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 to QNX. So while we're still waiting Windows8 phones, you can run classic DOS and Windows 3.11 on a BlackBerry. How Retro!
Time card and weekly status submitted. Code changes submitted and I haven't broken anything. I think it's time to power down and head north.
Had a smooth drive home. Michelle phoned to say that her oncologist called today and said all of her scans earlier this week looked good. I listened to Tech News Today #374 along rest of the drive. Enjoyed pulled pork when I got home.
Helped Tim setup his laptop with a new Atheros (aka Qualcomm) based WiFi chipset from Netgear for when he tinkers with Linux and WiFi. This is compared to his laptop's ancient Broadcom WiFi chips which has issues on almost every distribution he tries. RedHat/Fedora Linux have been the only versions that have worked "out of the box" with his laptop. Everything else requires me to intervene and get his WiFi working again. But usually Atheros based WiFi just works under Linux.
Since we have very basic cable, the kids played some Just Dance 3 on the Wii and watched some Disney shows via Netflix streaming on the TiVo. I got the boys tucked in bed with their prayer and soon followed suit. Good night all!