I was having a problem where when I went  from AC power to battery, the wireless would disconnect, and would not reconnect until I rebooted. Looks like there is some problem with power management when going to battery more.

I overrode the script by doing

touch /etc/pm/power.d/wireless

and now I can go from AC to battery without losing my wireless connection. Not getting any of the power savings that was supposed to happen, but I do not feel like looking into it any more than that.

So, I just finished a 20 minute discussion with my 8 year old son explaining the following concepts

• OO - Object Orientated Design
• TDD - Test Driven Design
• Emergent Design
• Code Reuse

I  used an analogy of a tool box and a set of construction equipment to state my case. What was crazy is I am pretty sure that he totaly  grasped the concepts, and might be able to put them into practice if asked.The geek foo is strong in that one!

God tells Smith to kill Jones: Where is the moral limit?
 

Been fighting with freeradius, here are the notes to get it working in Debian
 
In this order
Debian freeradius does not have tls support (which you need)
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-478804.html
http://vuksan.com/linux/dot1x/802-1x-LDAP.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/8021X-HOWTO/#confradius
 
So, I have been wanting to do this for almost three years, and I finally got around to getting it working. Pretty cool actually! I guess the pure geek is showing (because I had no real reason to do it, except for the challenge)
 

[EDIT]
It turns out there is a much better way to achiece what I was trying to do (go figure, I was trying to do things the hard way),  libpam-ccreds: see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PamCcredsHowto
[/EDIT]
 
I have been messing around all weekend (on and off) trying to get something to wor with LDAP. I thought I was getting pretty close, and then come to find out what I wanted to do, I had to wsitch to the "new" config. Pretty much, the documentaiton sucks, and here is the best I could find.
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html

[EDIT] These instructions may not work any more, you should really go to http://linux-vserver.org and finhost to do it from there
Had some problems getting a Ubuntu guest going on a Gentoo VServer host today, here are the tricks to get it working:
export ARCH=i386
vserver vubuntu build --force -m debootstrap /
--hostname vubuntu.dameaneys --netdev eth0 --interface 192.168.0.2/24 /
--context 1342 -- -d gutsy -m http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Mostly a reminder for myself in the future.

So, I woke up this morning, and the house was around 52 degrees. Considering that it was -12 when I woke up yeasterday, I was concerned about the heat. I went down and checked the furnace right away, and sure enough while it was running, it would not light the burners (no fire). I have never worked on a furnace before, and really was not sure what to do. I found the manuals, got me volt meter and started going through the startup sequence. By 7:00 AM I had pin pointed it to a bad ignitor.

So, after fighting several problems with ebuilds blocking on my Gentoo VServers, I decided to move them over to Debian.

The world is watching us.... Who will it we elect tomorrow? Will we
choose to end the war in Iraq responsibly or to keep hanging on to it
while letting more of America's sons and daughters die and borrow more
money from China to "rebuild" Iraq? Will we embrace the way of the
future and invest in putting in an infrastructure of clean, virtually
free energy sources, or will we continue on the road to drilling life
on Earth as we know it into extinction? Will we remember in the voting
booth that our children are our future and help them afford college, or

In the quest of protecting my family from the saturation of
everyday toxins, here is some info on known carcinogens in products
that most likely every household has:
1. Yellow #5 - found in many food items, from pickles to dry
pudding mix. A known carcinogen that has been banned by the rest of
the civilized world, but the United States Food and Drug
Administration has decided to continue to allow. Read the ingredients
list on all food items that you buy if you would like to avoid it.
Good luck finding yellow #5 free pickles. ( I heard this on NPR)