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Sometimes you screw up an application and are unable to use rpm -e to remove them from your system. Here is how you go about doing that:

To find installed RPM packages:
rpm -qa | grep <string>
To remove:
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches <package name>

There are several ways of doing this. You can download the Atheros driver source and compile, but this is by far the simplest since you only have to download the deb package and install to get your wireless network to work and do the rest while connected. Here is how:

Download your kernel’s Linux backports modules from here – mine was 2.6.28-11 generic. If you don’t know what your kernel version is use “uname -r” in console. Note that installing the wrong build can break your package manager and cause more frustration, so be careful. Copy the file to a flash drive and install it on the Eee. Reboot and your wireless NIC should work.
sudo dpkg -i linux-backports-modules-2.6.28-11-generic_2.6.28-11.12_i386.deb
Once your wireless connection is up and running, connect to the Internet, fire up Synaptic Package Manager and search for “eee”. You will see a package called “atl2-source” which is your Linux base driver for Atheros Ethernet Controller. Install, reboot and your wired network controller should also work. You can also run the following command in console instead of using Synaptic:
sudo aptitude atl2-source
There are a few more packages for Eee-PC in Synaptic… Make sure to install the ACPI driver.

Start Outlook with /resetnavpane switch. That should fix it.

If it’s only happening to a few posts or you can’t see all items/boxes in your dashboard then it’s your php module starving for more memory.

If you’re hosting the site, edit php.ini and add give it more memory. If you don’t know where php.ini is use the following command:
find / -name "php.ini"
Find memory section and dedicate what you want.

If your site is hosted, then create a php.ini file in wp-admin directory, and add the following line:
memory=15MB
If 15 is not good enough try 20 or 30.

So I was playing around with a brand new Steelhead web accelerator appliance. Curiosity made me try to virtualize the darn thing and see if I can get it to work with multiple NICS and without the fancy box. Since nothing is impossible and no one was around to stop me, I created an image of the drive and converted it to a VMware Server virtual appliance… it MUST be a *nix flavor, right? No doubt! Who the heck would ever think of Redmond when it comes to creativity?

I was right because the first thing I ran into was a kernel panic. I decided to screenshot and post it for everyone to see… it’s “slightly” different than a normal kernel panic:

There it is. I leave it to you to figure out why I liked it. To the Riverbed guys: nice touch 🙂

P.S. Don’t ask about what happened after I took care of the panicing kernel… hush!