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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in September, 2011

Yes, Finally, thank-you Jeffrey for admitting this. If only you had realised this years ago, I might not be battling Microsoft SQL Server 2000 using RDP over a 31.2kbps PSTN modem link yesterday and this morning.  I might’ve instead been using a mysqldump-like tool over something akin to SSH, which would have been very welcome [...]

Hi all… I got fed up of restoring my firmware for the Broadcom wireless chip in my late-2008 model MacBook.  Anyone who has one of these might find the current in-tree versions of net-wireless/b43-firmware is missing files needed by the modern b43 driver (namely ucode16_mimo.fw), and net-wireless/b43-fwcutter doesn’t well, cut it, for extracting the newer [...]