Trying to get the new Dell Inspiron 1012 with Intel 6250 to work on Sprint’s WiMAX (4G). CDMA worked fine and normal wireless LAN functioned perfectly, yet 4G was elusive. Then I found http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1508183 cd wlwifi-6050-ucode-9.201.4.1 sudo cp iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode /lib/firmware sudo chmod 644 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi* sudo chown root:root /lib/firmware/iwlwifi* sudo rmmod -f iwlagn sudo modprobe iwlagn
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Apple’s Melting Power Adapters
Apple’s got a potential recall problem. Incendiary MacBook blamed in house conflag inferno suit
Pre-Computer Internet
Early 1980s intercontinental internet traffic followed (geographically) the same basic infrastructure that had existed for much of the previous century. The image above illustrates early submarine telecommunications lines. Map of Undersea Cables from 1901
Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2010
Real-Time Search. Plants that sweat fuel. Cloud Programming. Here are MIT’s top ten emerging technologies for 2010. Technology Review: TR10.
Lose your Time Warner Internet connection (again)? You could try Open DNS | Technology | Los Angeles Times
If you live in Greater Los Angeles and are fed up with Time Warner Cable, there’s probably not much you can do about it (unless you’re the L.A. city attorney, in which case you can sue). The frequent outages, slow customer service and small number of high-definition channels are a fact of life. But theContinue reading “Lose your Time Warner Internet connection (again)? You could try Open DNS | Technology | Los Angeles Times”
