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I have seen a lot of silly error messages, but this is the most hilarious so far. A colleague of mine tried to launch the installer/updater for Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista and got the error message shown below - Internet explorer is not supported on this operating system. I couldn’t stop laughing: IE7 installs even on Windows XP, and comes bundled with Windows Vista.
I recently upgraded my laptop’s installation of Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy, and as usual everything worked out of the box. Except my wireless drivers.
The linux restricted drivers package that comes with Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) contains the 0.9.18.0 version of the proprietary hal. While this works with most wireless cards using Atheros chips, it doesnt really work for mine. My Toshiba Tecra TE2300 contains an Atheros AR5211 chip (as listed by dmesg) on an internal mini-pci card, and although the driver is loaded correctly for the wireless card, it refuses to associate and also just stays on the 5 GHz frequency no matter what I do.
