Ok, so I recently decided I wanted to sew my wild oats and install Linux. When I came to this blithering idiot of a conclusion, I neglected to take into account how my home-brew PC with its dinosaur of a wireless card would handle the situation.

I went with Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex. When I initially booted up, I was greeted immediately with a working wireless connection. Oh yeah, I rock. This connection, however proceeded to last for a period of about 15 nanoseconds before it started to violently fluctuate for ten minutes, culminating in a permanent disconnection.

I researched the problem (on my windows machine, as Ubuntu was currently stabbing me in the face with anti-internet forks) and stumbled across a package called ndiswrapper. My first real Linux test was about to begin.
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JobMob recently recognized the Top 10 Most Beautiful Resumes of 2008. My old one from college made the list, BOO YA!

FlashPitt08. The first “first Flash-centric New Media conference” for Pittsburgh. The hype was there, looming like that large elephant in the room. The burgh’s first chance to show its true colors regarding Flash and technology. Could this conference stack up?
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