earlier. I did fix the issue but I had to do little more than what I did in Arch Linux. In case if you have the same wireless card (Intel 3945ABG) and looking for a solution for slow net speed, I have it for you. And if you don’t have the same card or problem but still want to know how I solved the problem, please continue reading.

This solution is for Linux Mint 5 but will work for Ubuntu 8.04 too. Please update your system before you proceed.

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I don’t do much distro hopping. I’d rather like to have a stable system then jumping from one disto to other distro every other day. Yeah, I know many people who do that. May be it makes them cool (well, at least they think it does!). Anyway that’s a different story. But I hopped 5 different distros in last 3 months due to one single reason: slow Internet speed.

My laptop has Intel 3945ABG wireless card and it is my primary means of getting online. I have Comcast 6mbps Internet connection and I get above 700Kbps on my Windows system. I used to get same speed on Ubuntu until I upgraded to 8.04. After upgrade my 6mbps became 256kbps. First I thought that it could be due to IPV6. So I disabled IPV6. But it did not help. Therefore I decided to try other distros and tried (in order) Mint, SUSE, Fedora 9, Arch(present distro).  Whats surprizing is that all of them having same problem. Then it struck my mind that it could be due to driver issue. So I stared searching for 3945ABG linux driver and found that kernel 2.6.24 and up comes with Intel wifi drivers for linux(iwl3945). I went to distrowatch and found that Ubuntu 7.10 shipped with kernel 2.6.20 and 8.04 comes with 2.6.24. Same kernel with other distros I tried. But before 2.6.24 kernel, ipw3945 drivers were used. As far as I remember, Ubuntu 7.10 used ndiswrapper for wireless driver.

Therefore I decided to use windows driver with ndiswrapper to conform my doubts. I removed ‘iwlwifi-3945-ucode’ package, blacklisted iwl3945, and loaded ndiswrapper and driver. After reboot I connected to my wireless network and guess what? My net speed is back on track. I have not tried this on Ubuntu yet. Once I do, I’ll post a tutorial on it.

http://clearpixels.net/wp-content/plugins/. If directory listing is not turned off then people can see all the files in ‘plugins’ directory.

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As promised earlier, today I’m going help you to do some clean up. Almost every site nowadays comes with ads and we don’t like ads, do we? Now, most of the ads can be blocked using Ad blocker plus Firefox extensions. But sometimes it cannot block all the ads, Yahoo mail for example.

Not only ads, there are also some elements in a website that you may not want to see. For example, right sidebar of engadget. You wish you could just block those items. Guess what? You can do just like that; in fact you can change the whole style of any site you want. Thanks to Firefox Stylish extension. With Stylish extension and your own style script you can revamp any site you want. If you don’t know how to make a CSS script, don’t worry. Head over the userstyle site and search for the one you want. Opera users don’t worry. With a little trick you can use same user style script with Opera. Read the rest of this entry »