for keeping track of my digital experiments

I needed a fast and officiant way to edit all of my wordpress posts in bulk the other day. So I wrote a script that looks for a certain search string in a post and replaces that search string with another string. Fast efficient and easy to auto-edit all of your word press posts. Just remove the .txt extension, configure the search and replace varz, upload to the directory containing your wp-config.php file, and access with your web client. REMEMBER TO REMOVE THIS POWERFUL SCRIPT AFTER USE! http://vraidsys.com/article-includes/editposts.php.txt

I will be consolidating all of my sites onto one physical server collocated in FDCservers' Chicago location. My VPS lease runs out on the 16th. Large data files, media, and my SVN repos will probably be unavailable or sporadically accessible until during the week of the 24th sometime.

After some searching around on the Google machine, I came across “Linux wireless LAN support“. It’s one of the most complete directories I’ve seen for a very long time. I had a suspicion that my DWL-G510 pci card might work, as it is old enough and I’ve read about other similar models of D-Link card being supported natively. It turns out that mine works seamlessly with stuff from the MadWifi project. Because I was feeling lazy and wanted a tried and true install method, I found “How To Install MadWifi On Debian 4.0 (Etch)” by Sumardi Shukor. The following is based on the article on his blog.

vi /etc/apt/source.list [add "contrib non-free" after "main" to the various lines]
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential module-assistant wireless-tools
module-assistant
module-assistant auto-install madwifi-source
modprobe ath_pci
ifconfig ath0 up [bring up the wireless interface]
iwlist ath0 scanning [scan for a wireless network to connect to]

I suggest using a GUI app to do the rest, such as wicd.