Mean Tricks To Play On Yourself #345: Install Linux on a laptop with only wireless connectivity (i.e. not just not plugged in, but nothing to plug in to), where that connectivity is provided by a Broadcom-based wireless adapter. Level 2: Once you have that working, enjoy it for a while, and then do a distribution upgrade, so that it will break and you can have that fun all over again. Level 3: Repeat with every distribution upgrade.
Day: January 24, 2009
Aside
There should always be a 24-hour computer parts store, so that when one of the drives in your RAID array craps out, you can immediately go and buy a replacement for it, rather than having to spend the night in the knowledge that if another one of the drives happens to fail right now, you’re toast.
