Monthly Archives: October 2010

Fix WiFi driver after kernel update

Posted on October 31, 2010 by paolog

If you have a Broadcom BCM4315 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller on a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop computer and you run Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, you may be experiencing trouble after a kernel update via Kubuntu update manager: the WiFi is … Continue reading →

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Fix slow waking from hibernation (disk suspend) in ubuntu

Posted on October 30, 2010 by paolog

Waking up from hibernation is dead slow in Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04, because it’s using by default the kernel-mode as suspend back-end. To fix this in two steps: install userspace software suspend: sudo apt-get install uswsusp update the confuguration: cat … Continue reading →

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smfpd, the useless daemon installed by Samsung printer drivers sucks

Posted on October 30, 2010 by paolog

I own a Samsung CLP-…N network (ethernet) printer so I have installed on debian the Samsung Unified Linux Driver. This includes smfpd, Simple MFP Daemon to “provide access to parallel port via tcp”. Who uses parallel ports anymore ? Running … Continue reading →

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Reaction-Diffusion

Posted on October 4, 2010 by paolog

Reaction + diffusion is a common combination of phenomena studied by chemical engineers, which could be described by these equations: “where u and v are the concentrations of hypothetical factors, f and g are the reaction kinetics and Du and … Continue reading →

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