Hopefully there would be many like me who have struggled in configuring Broadcom Wifi Cards on Linux due to their proprietory drivers, now a days it works fine in Ubuntu if you download the drivers available but still it doesnot work with various other distros. so here is a 3 step guide to configure Broadcom Wifi on your linux box these steps have been tested on openSUSE but would work on any distro Step 1 ) Download a file from here. Step 2) Install bcm43xx-fwcutter it is commonly avaiable for all distros Step 3 ) follow the commands

# bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

(bcm43xx-fwcutter is the application which u have installed wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o is the file which you have downloaded from this blog:)  preferably create a directory and copy wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o there and execute the command in the directory)

# cp *.wl /lib/firmware

(*.wl are the files which were generated from the command above there would be some 16 files)

And you are done use the network manager to configure Wireless Netwoks :) this was really simple. Desclaimer: code/commands given in the posts worked fine for the author please use them on your own risks they may damage your system.

GNUnify is one of the biggest FOSS event which is completely managed and organized by the students of Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research. Each batch of MSc (CA) only gets one opportunity to organize it last time we "RESPAWN" organized and the tradition continued with the current batch which organized the 7th GNUnify. It was sponsored by Mozilla, they also presented a few talks this year which were great. I also got an opportunity to conduct a workshop this year which  went on well the participants were able to create websites on their local machines atleast :) this was the second time when i got the opportunity to be a speaker @ gnunify.

This year we had more then 50 speakers covering topics in various areas of software development, administration the new addition this year was the FOSS in academics Track where in teachers from various colleges came up and discussed about FOSS.
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tasks tasks and tasks... you always need to monitor them but how to schedule this monitoring so that i can get a file generated say every hour or four hours. You normally use the following command to transfer the output of top to a file

$ top > filename

and this works fine for you have you ever tried to add this entry as a cron job believe me it wont work i struggled a lot with it so finally whats the solution to schedule it The answer is use cron job, but i just said it wont work :) yes this wont work directly you need to add certain flags hey dont work you need not search them, below is the line which you can add as your cron job

17 15 * * * root /usr/bin/top c n 1 b >/home/abhishek/topfile_$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d-\%H-\%M) if this doesnot work in your case the following would surely work 17 15 * * * root /usr/bin/top c n 1 b >/home/abhishek/topfile_`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d-\%H-\%M`

the above statement will make a cron run every day at 17:15 which would create a file in /home/abhishek/topfile_somedatetime  containing the required information. Hey you can change this to any time or frequency or any format of file name you need just use study cron or have a look to my earlier post on cron jobs.