I'm in the process of upgrading my server for fun and for profit, as they say. I was on an ancient Fedora 4 system and finally I reached a point where I couldn't upgrade some of my software to work on the system at all without compiling a bunch of other requirements by hand, too. I've been with Open Hosting for a long time now. For years now, they've had a cloud service that fits my needs in pretty much the same way as their old VPS servers did, only with new and improved cloudiness.
Every so often, for no apparent reason, KDE kills the network manager. After rebooting or switching users, suddenly the network manager icon says that the network is "unmanaged" and if you try to right click, it tells you that network manager is disabled. I have read that this same thing can happen if you have a failed sleep or hibernation mode.
I have been having troubles since I started doing development for embedded software with the amount of available space in my /opt directory. You see, normally, you put all of your cross-compilers and software development kits (sdk's) underneath the /opt directory. Unfortunately, when I set up my laptop and partitioned the hard drive, I didn't set /opt into its own partition and so it was sitting in the root (/) partition.
I learned how to add in or swap out a Linux kernel module today. Kinda cool.
Let's start with the problem. My new laptop has both a wireless card AND an Ethernet card that are incompatible with Ubuntu Linux. So, after a little bit of testing and research, my ever patient friend, savior and all things *nix tutor discovered that the problem was that Ubuntu picks the wrong kernel driver for the Ethernet card on this machine and that it didn't have the wireless driver at all.
With all the MID stuff I've been doing lately, I've had need to create bootable USB disks from img files twice now. As noted previously, I am a dork, so I always forget how to do things like this that I don't do terribly often. To save myself heartache and search time, here are the destructions instructions in short:
Get .img file for the OS you need. (via download, Moblin image creator, or whatever)
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