Now is the turn of the wireless, on Debian Etch 4 the developers made a big effort to implement new tools for the wifi, now looks like pretty much like windows :S (this is good and the same time bad) The Inspiron 1505 comes with the Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card, this card will only work with ndiswrappers, the setup for this card is really easy just follow the steps:

I was installing Debian Etch on my laptop (DELL Inspiron E-1505) the installation was fine without any problems.... the only thing that was the screen resolution, by default the resolution was setup to 1024x768, then I was trying to change to 1200x800 the max resolution supoorted by the video card (Intel 945) after a few trys using the preferences from the GNOME, nothing.. then I try to change the xorg.conf manually the same...

Google was the answer, after a couple of minutes I foud the answer, I will detail how to make it work.

To get our resolution we are going to install the following program : 915resolution(click the link download the latest .deb version) . Now to install it ! :

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/9/915resolution/

or # apt-get install 915resolution

cd /tmp (i put the package into /tmp so thats why im in /tmp)
sudo dpkg -i 915resolution*.deb

Package installed, now to setup the resolution, first open up the following file :

sudo vi /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

Scroll all the way down and before the EXIT >> type the following :

915resolution 58 1280 800

Save the file and restart X (or reboot) , now the resolution should be set if you still have the 1024x768 then setup the following step (only if it doesnt work)

sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Edit the "Monitor" part and the "Screen" part in the xorg.conf so that it shows 1280x800 and no other resolutions

I will be writing about paradigms from now one in some of my post…. First of all lets understand what is a paradigm, for this task Wikipedia will help. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Since the late 1960s, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. Initially the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable. In linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure used paradigm to refer to a class of elements with similarities.”

Ok we just saw how Wikipedia defines the word paradigm I’m going to center on a specific field in my case Programming paradigm, is really interesting how the programming can be understand is we use paradigms… here a small definition one more time from Wikipedia

“A programming paradigm is a fundamental style of programming regarding how problems solutions are to be formulated in a programming language. (Compare with a methodology, which is a style of solving specific software engineering problems).

A programming paradigm provides (and determines) the view that the programmer has of the execution of the program. For instance, in object-oriented programming, programmers can think of a program as a collection of interacting objects, while in functional programming a program can be thought of as a sequence of stateless function evaluations. When programming computers or systems with many processors, process oriented programming allows programmers to think about applications as sets of processes acting upon logically shared data structures.”

This post is just for give a small introduction about programming paradigms next week I will be writing more about this and others paradigms like education and culture.

May the force be with you