Wireless, Ubuntu and Dell

I faced a tough time getting wireless to work on Dell Latitude in Ubuntu. Luckily, Dell provides windows drivers on its support website. So, it must be simple now. Just use ndiswrapper. Right? Wrong. It was not straightforward. I got this useful information from Stacks and Piles.

echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
sudo ndiswrapper -i /home/gopal/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

.NET in Linux

Mono seems to be promising for developing and running .NET applications in Linux.

File Restoration

Did you delete your file accidentally? Try recovering the file using Restoration. It is a simple and user friendly software that may recover files from your hard drive even after you deleted them.

Ubuntu dapper

This version of Linux seems to be a superior operating system. I have installed this on my laptop, which seems pretty neat so far. The system seems to be performing faster than with windows XP. It must be because of the spam and spyware that a windows system typically attracts. With the availability of many free software suites for linux, I believe I can use this laptop for my everyday use.
Earlier, I had trouble installing wireless. The network component used to freeze the system. But, now I added these commands in the kernel line of /boot/grub/menu.lst

acpi = off