To Whom It May Concern...

I'm not sure I'd trust it as I used to, but I'm getting the data off. Here it is, in process:

What is a Dongle? A dongle is a small piece of hardware that connects to a computer. Dongles stick out in places where they can get broken. Like when you put your foot down near a computer on the floor. This was my main Thumb drive, where I kept all the little utilities I could carry from PC to PC. It had data files, and all sorts of other goodies I used frequently. Of course, we Montoya's , er, I mean Kenyon's, have never taken defeat easily. Let's see what we will have to work with: Hmm... I don't think anything got shorted, I think it just snapped cleanly off. Nothing was being read/written, so we should be good. Not a lot to solder back together, but I may be able to make do. I may also be able to pick up another connector with good terminals. Anybody ever attempt this before? This is a broken 2Gb Kingston DataTraveler if anybody's googling for it. I'll report my results.

If you read my previous post , you saw that I wanted to get WiFi networking working on Damn Small Linux (DSL), which uses a 2.4 Kernel. My PCMCIA card (had it in my junk collection, and didn't want to spend $$ on a newer one) is a D-Link DWL-G630 (DWL G630) card. Version A1. Not A1 as in awesome, great, easy to install on linux. A1 as in the first version, of which they've gone up to version E. There are write-ups on how to set up network cards on linux in all manner of ways. Several for this card suggested MadWifi. I could never get MadWifi to install in a way that I saw it do anything. The best one I saw was on Leedberg.com . However, there were a few clarifications needed in his instructions. This card uses mrv8k51.inf as the driver. To get this card to work with ndiswrapper, use the Win98 drivers. DSL doesn't have DHClient. I don't know where to find DHClient, or something similar for DSL. Now, what do I mean 'it's working, I think'? Well, I'm at wor...

I recently acquired (thanks dad) an old Dell Latitude CP laptop. This is a little 166MHz, 32 Mb RAM system, nothing fancy. But it does have a 12" 800x600 16mil color screen. So, I set out to do what I've seen others do, convert the little guy into a digital picture frame. Important points are in bold if you want to skip through with just highlights. I found several sites, including this one ( http://www.lepolt.com/blog/...digital-picture-frame/ ) that pointed to Damn Small Linux (from here on out referred to DSL) as the OS of choice. I'd played with it, but to no depth, so I rolled up my sleeves, got out a ReWritable CD, and downloaded the ISO. First things first. DSL-N is not DSL. It is like it, but the steps online are not the same. One of the links to download DSL led me to a site that also had DSL-N. It took me a while to realize that I did that and that was why the online steps did not work. Scratch 2 days. Now, with the correct version in hand I set out to set up m...

This is a simple little tool, but it shows me what I want to know. http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

Some of you may have visited my other sites: http://www.greatwhitedata.com/ (My business site) http://mark.phillk.net/ (My personal site) http://mark.phillk.net/funnyKeys.php (My joke collection) Well, I'm always looking to improve the site. I also will host for other people. Of course, that doesn't always come free. But I'm willing to work it out with you good people... Any one of these items would be a nice donation: HITACHI Deskstar 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Acer AL1917WAbd Black 19" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 700:1 Built in Speakers Of course, if you want to buy these for yourselves... I guess I won't mind too much, they are good deals!