Getting wireless working on ubuntu machine

Please follow following steps blindly to get wireless working on ubuntu machine.Here are the steps...On a fresh clean Ubuntu machine:1. Disable the "Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards" on Hardware Drivers, and reboot your box.2. In a terminal:2.1 Updates all package lists# sudo apt-get update2.2 Update driver.# sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic3. Reboot.Thanks to Gautam, … Continue reading Getting wireless working on ubuntu machine

Musings on cache-money – Part I

So, I always wanted to find a way of memcaching via ActiveRecord, without having to re-invent the wheel 😉 My investigations initially took me via CachedModel, cache_fu and finally I settled on cache-money. Seems to be *almost exactly* what I wanted - any lookup goes via memcache, any update /edit goes via ActiveRecord + memcache … Continue reading Musings on cache-money – Part I