Remember my last post? yeah…
I decided to update from Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to 7.10 (Gutsy) and guess what? It installed a different driver for my wireless card and broke my internet again. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.
I spent the last 3 hours trying to fix it, with no luck. Why does every fscking thing in Linux have to be so damn difficult?
I’ve been struggling for months trying to get my wireless card working in Linux, including installing several different versions of Ubuntu, Mint, and others. I also thought it might be a hardware issue, since some of the newer Debian-based flavors weren’t working with live CDs. I replaced the power supply as well, since the old one was making a horrible sound and the system seemed flaky.
This morning, I stepped into my office at home to grab something, and my computer was sitting at the login prompt for Kubuntu instead of my Windows desktop (meaning, Windows updated itself and rebooted the pc). I decided on a whim to give trying to set up the wireless one more shot.
I didn’t have the network info handy, but looking in /etc/network, I found a backup copy of the interfaces file from when I had messed with it previously, and copied it into place. Restarting networking produced a slew of errors, most of which were from the wired interfaces not being plugged in. Seeing this, I commented those interfaces out of the file, and then I noticed that one line was missing from the wireless interface section that was in all the others, so I added it. I saved the file and restarted networking again, and POOF. Network connectivity! Unpossible!
Sadly though, I did not have much time today to play with my newly-connected desktop as we were busy getting ready to drive over to GR for our mini-vacation, and to see the Jeff Dunham show on Sunday night at the DeVos performance hall.
I will be adding/modifying this page with progress. Hopefully. 
One very short-term goal is to update this site to WP 2.5. I hope it doesn’t break stuff.
Edit [9:25pm] – WP updated to 2.5 sucessfully! 
Should I get this? It would be funny
History/Definition of “detroited”: A customer wrote in saying that we had ‘detroited’ (read: destroyed) their business. So now anytime something is broken beyond repair we say its been ‘detroited.’
Went to go to work this morning, and found my car broken into. Bart’s car also got hit. They took our stereos and radar detectors, and Bart’s credit card & atm card. This isn’t the first time cars have been broken into in our apartment complex, either. Thieves hit the same parking lot last summer. Hopefully they go to use one of Bart’s cards and get videotaped.
Edit: Bart found his atm card. They also took a set of tools and a lawn chair from his car.
Edit Feb 8th – I have full coverage on my car, so I only need to pay a $100 deductible and I get my stereo and window replaced, along with the molding/pieces of my car that got ripped out when they took the stereo & radar detector. Bart had to pay about $200 out-of-pocket to have his window replaced.