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It’s the 85th post

Here at OKS Blog, we’ve come a long way. We’ve faced downtime, but we prevail. I want you all to know how great you are and how important you are to me.

I’m very fortunate to have the number of visitors I have, and I’m fortunate to have the enthusiastic authors here as my friends.

It’s been a long time coming, and one more comment will be the 100th comment.

I am happy to continue administering OKS Blog, and we will continue to flourish for years to come!

Thanks,

Darren VanBuren

Administrator of Onekopakaspace

I hiked 4 miles today.

Amazingly, I was able to complete a hike at Rattlesnake Ledge. I got this video on the top of the Ledge:

Rattlesnake Ledge

Here are some pretty tall trees:

Fedora 11 is being released tomorrow. Unfortunately, I can’t host a party. I would if I could. There are a host of new features in Fedora 11, such as fingerprint login, new versions of all the desktop environments, the Windows cross-compiler and a new version of X.org.

Download Fedora 11 when it releases at fedoraproject.org

WordTwit had to be reconfigured..

If you were wondering why posts weren’t showing up at @oksblog, after I upgraded WordTwit, I had to reconfigure. This problem is now fixed, and this post is testing WordTwit.

We’re back!

Yes, after too much downtime, OKS Blog is BACK!!

Wireless with the BCM43xx in Fedora 10

Unfortunately, the BCM43xx series of wireless cards is very popular in laptops today, but thankfully the popularity is decreasing. Fedora 10 is actually not difficult, but harder than Ubuntu, to use the BCM43xx cards.

Make sure you have root access. This cannot be performed without root access. This is for firmware version 4 and higher, my Acer Aspire 3690 used that firmware, so this is what I’m giving instructions for.
yum install b43-fwcutter

cd /tmp

wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

bunzip2 broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

tar xvf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar

b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o

echo “alias wlan0 b43” >> /etc/modprobe.conf

system-network-config

I should have an external hard drive tomorrow so that I can install Fedora 10 then I’ll correct these instructions. For some reason my internal card doesn’t like these drivers (last I checked) but it likes the Windows drivers, so I may use ndiswrapper. Who knows?

A large majority of the post was forked from http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras.

New Years Resolutions

My New Years Resolution? 1280 x 1024. What’s yours?

We have a twitter account!

Onekopakaspace Blog now has its own twitter account for it to tweet to. Isn’t that cool? It’s @oksblog for you to follow.

OKS Blog is already on WordPress 2.8

Here at OKS Blog, we take pride in running WordPress right from the SVN tree. This allows for easy upgrades and we get to beta test WordPress thoroughly. We also get new features as soon as they come in. So we wait for the WordPress developers to get WordPress 2.8 work underway, and relax.

CSS Transforms in Firefox 3.1 and first C4T3G0R1Z3D post

There’s a lot of new things in Firefox 3.1, which is set to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2009. There’s plenty of new features. So, here is one of the new features. Take a look at this box:

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