Blogger Revving up New Views

What photographic excellence, from the F-Word.

You may have noticed that I've fallen off my habit of informing you about endless and random updates to Chrome, Google, etc.  My apologies.

I confess I figured those of you who are interested in the new features/updates generally know where to find out about them and that my observations would probably add very little to the conversation.

I'm bucking the (recent) trend, tonight.

I'd like to draw your attention to five new Blogger "views": 1) flipcard, 2) mosaic, 3) sidebar, 4) snapshot, and 5) timeslide.

To access these views, simply add /view to the end of any blog (I believe it has to be public).  Try this blog, for example:  cougarabogado.blogspot.com/view

Impressive, F-Word, most impressive.

Here's a video from Blogger.  I think you'll be quite impressed:

What do you think?  Please sound off, below.

Please Defend DOMA, Marriage, and Religious Freedom

Recently, marriage, the union of one man and one woman, and the free exercise of religion, have come under even greater attack than usual.

Marriage

You may be aware that President Obama has recently set aside his constitutional duties to uphold the laws of the land.  Specifically, he has abandoned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  President Obama says the law (which simply codified the then universal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman) is likely unconstitutional and has refused to defend it against legal attack.

For a little background, DOMA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, after a 342-67 vote in the House and 85-14 vote in the Senate.  Or, in other words, 83.62% of the House and 85% of the Senate voted in favor of the legislation.

Now, DOMA is facing attacks in the courts and in Congress.  Are your elected representatives standing up for what has always been, until recently, the universal definition of marriage?  Please find out and take corresponding action by clicking on the Defend DOMA button, to the right.

Religious Freedom

I previously posted to inform you that Apple had caved into demands to remove the Manhattan Declaration app from its app store.  The Manhattan Declaration proclaims a belief in Life, Marriage, and Religious Freedom.

I write now to inform you that Apple has recently caved into similar demands to remove an app produced by Exodus International.

Exodus International is an organization which assists individuals seeking help to overcome same-gender attraction.  The group proclaims "Freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ" and recognizes that while participants may overcome homosexual behavior, they may still struggle with same-sex attractions.

As I have done before, I want to reconfirm (rather than cover-up or deny) that I have a brother who views himself as homosexual whom I love very much and whom I refuse to disown or cast aside for his decision.

Regarding the apps, I understand both received a 4+ rating from Apple, meaning they were viewed by Apple as free from objectionable material.

You may be far from surprised that some denounced these apps as "hateful" and "bigoted."  I am sad that a number of individuals seem unable (or simply refuse) to differentiate between homosexual behavior and self-proclaimed homosexual individuals, themselves.  I prefer to recognize people as children of God, rather than label us according to our specific tendencies, appetites, or behaviors.

I am deeply concerned that what we once considered a flourishing market place of ideas may be quickly mutating into a curated garden of politically correct ideology.  "Freedom from Religion," anyone?

Yes, Apple is far from being the U.S. government.  On the other hand, there are many who adamantly push to force God and freedom of religion out of the public sphere and into the uncontroversial shadows of freedom of worship.  There are many who long to silence any voices who disagree with or offend them.

If we ever lose the right to express our ideas, I greatly fear the dark days that would follow.

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may [including nothing at all].  (LDS Article of Faith # 11.)

Please sign the Manhattan Declaration (at right) and support freedom of religion in whatever respectful way you can.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."  Edmund Burke.

The Difference Between Libya and Iraq Explained

I especially love how this video hearkens back to the "because it is an iPhone" exchange (absent the colorful language).

Yesterday's Spiritual Message: You Will Be Freed

Elder Ballard talks about falling prey to addictions and overcoming them:



Look for posts and pictures from our Germany trip, coming up!

A Tribute to the Fallen Japanese: We Will Meet Again

This morning, I heard a Lord of the Rings song on Pandora and was especially touched, after reading the lyrics, and thinking about the devastation in Japan.

When the cold of winter comes

Starless night will cover day

In the veiling of the sun

We will walk in bitter rain

But in dreams

I can hear your name

And in dreams

We will meet again

When the seas and mountains fall

And we come, to end of days

In the dark I hear a call

Calling me there,

I will go there

And back again

My heart is particularly sick and sad and full of mourning, as we have a dear friend who was, when I was a young child, essentially family, who lives in Hokkaido, Japan.  We have yet to receive word from her that she and her family are all right.

Yet, in addition to the lyrics found above, I know that because of Jesus Christ, we will all meet again, not only in dreams, but in life, and He will wipe away all tears from our eyes.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  Revelation 21: 4.

God bless the people of Japan.  They are in my thoughts and prayers.

Today's Spiritual Message: Spiritual Vertigo

A WWII pilot talks about the importance of following established rules.

Today's Spiritual Message: Peace in this World

Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine unto the world.
Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up—that which ye have seen me do. 

Around Christmas, this past year, my wife and I had the distinct pleasure of visiting the Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida.

Among other things, what we loved most about the HP park (and all of Universal Studios) was the "Dragon Challenge" roller coaster ride.

And, climbing up the ride's drop off, I discovered what I enjoyed most about the whole experience.

It was after dusk and so the area was quite dark.  The Dragon Challenge ride was situated at the outskirts of the whole Universal Studios park, when we were there, so we could see off into the surrounding distance.

As I gazed out at the dark horizon, I saw a shimmering light, in what I assumed was a familiar form.  As you may have guessed, it was the Orlando, Florida, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple.

I was overcome with appreciation, as I thought about the symbolism of that moment:  Here we were, climbing a roller coaster ride, where we would be screaming, whipped about, twisting and turning, and all in the dark of night.  Yet, off in the distance lay a bright and quiet reminder that we can have peace in this world, in spite of the many dangers, excitements, and turmoils we experience in this life.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  John 14: 27.

Jesus Christ is the Light of the world, the Prince of Peace.  Each and every temple, shinning brightly in the dark of night, is a glowing reminder that we can each have peace in this world, as we turn to Jesus Christ and keep His commandments.

I have certainly felt this peace in my life, when I have endeavored to follow the Savior.   I close with an invitation from one of His prophets:

Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
I am the same that came unto mine own, and mine own received me not.
I am the light which shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.

And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever. Amen.  Ether 12: 41.

BYU Dismisses Top Basketball Player, Grabs Nation's Attention

Does it surprise you that John Cougar Mellencamp wrote the song, "Hurts So Good"?

If you follow college basketball, or even American sports in general, I imagine you may be aware that Brigham Young University (BYU) has dismissed the No. 3-ranked basketball team's 6'9" center, Brandon Davies, for the remainder of the season.

BYU states that Davies was dismissed from (at least) the team for an Honor Code violation.  The BYU Honor Code expects students to:

Be honest

Live a chaste and virtuous life

Obey the law and all campus policies

Use clean language

Respect others

Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse

Participate regularly in church services

Observe the Dress and Grooming Standards

Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code

From what I've read, I get the impression Davies violated #2.

In a world where we often learn about serious rules violations five or ten years after a team has won the NCAA championship, I'm deeply impressed with the University's decision, in the midst of what I believe may be its highest ranking ever (at least in my living memory).

What might have happened to the basketball team's season, had Davies remained on the team, is anyone's guess.  What did happen, last night, was that BYU took a 64-82 beat down at the hands of New Mexico, for its first loss at home in some time.  My understanding is that BYU has now dropped from being a Final Four favorite, to doubtfully making it out of the playoff tournament's first round.

Hurts so good.

When it comes down to it, I ask myself this proverbially academic question, "Would I rather have BYU win a basketball NCAA championship, along with its quickly fading glory, or would I prefer to have my alma matter respected throughout the world as an institution of high moral standards and integrity."  In a heartbeat, I'll take the latter.

Yes, the F-Word will be the first sport pundit to tell you I fell out of the hardcore-sports fan aura, long ago.  Yet, when BYU's teams ride high, I'm one of the first to cheer them on.

In the end, with BYU's basketball hopes crumbling, or perhaps even dashed, I'm struggling to think of a time I've ever been more proud of my alma matter.  Today, I will proudly don my BYU hat, which may be the first time in years, accompanied by my BYU alumnus t-shirt.

Indeed,

Sometimes love don't feel like it should

You make it hurt so good

Especially if you're a BYU sports fan, you may want to listen to Hurts So Good on Playlist.

Today's Spiritual Message: Unselfish Service

Today's message is essentially a corollary to last week's message.

I hope you enjoy it.

Today's Spiritual Message: Putting Life on Pause to Serve

This week I learned about Tyler Haws.  He is arguably one of the most successful high school basketball players, ever, and he has put his collegiate career with BYU on hold, to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.



I'm very impressed with this decision, as I understand it can be very difficult to be away from a sport for two years and then try to pick it up again, with the same excellence.

Regardless of how Tyler plays basketball when he returns, I'm glad he decided to dedicate two years of his life to serving his Heavenly Father's children as a missionary.

How to SAVE Your WPA2-Enterprise (Work/School) Network Configuration On Your Cr-48

HUGE UPDATE:  This walk around is now unnecessary, as the issue has basically been fixed!

UPDATE:  If you want to breeze through this walk-through by copying and pasting the relevant entries, simply highlight the text you want to copy, switch over to your command line shell and press down with four fingers on the touch pad -- it seems like this is a special kind of copy/paste functionality for the Cr-48.  Be sure to manually edit your info where necessary.

Okay, after setting up my school wireless connection on my Cr-48 every day, for a month, from scratch(!), I'm delighted to announce I've finally come up with a one-time solution, thanks to Nick Naro.

So you're aware, this post builds off a previous post I wrote on 1/29/11, input from Jay Lee's blog, and is originally founded on David Burrow's instruction set.

Next, I'M WRITING THIS FOR PEOPLE WHO SIMPLY WANT A LIST OF WHAT TO DO.  To that end, this how-to can be followed character for character.  KEEP IN MIND THAT YOUR NETWORK SETTINGS MAY BE DIFFERENT (e.g., yours may use TKIP instead of CCMP, as in mine, below), SO PLEASE CHECK THEM AND MAKE CHANGES WHERE NECESSARY.  Also, if your network requires a security certificate, I believe you will be out of luck (period) until the Chrome team fixes an issue with security certificates.

Please note that this method will save your password to your hard drive.

Also, please note the usual disclaimer that if you accidentally type something in wrong and blow up your computer, it's your bad, and I will be hesitant to cry for you.  On the other hand, I typed loads of stuff wrong, myself, and failed to have anything blow up (or make trouble).

With that said, let's dive in.

Type in exactly what I have shown and hit enter, except for #1.  (Be sure to exclude the explanatory remarks and numbering).

1. ctrl+alt+t
This takes us into crosh, the "command line" center for Chrome OS, based on Linux (this area's like MS-DOS).

2. shell
This takes us into the bash shell (the title's unimportant, other than having the label handy, if necessary).

3. sudo -s
This takes us into what's often referred to as "root," which is where we can make substantial system changes (I imagine it's distantly similar to the Windows registry, in terms of how much it can change).

4. cd /mnt/stateful_partition/home/chronos
This means we're navigating to our home folder, home/chronos. I believe cd simply tells the system to navigate to the directory I list.

5. qemacs AUTOWIRELESS.sh
Qemacs opens up a simple text editor for us, where we'll be creating a script (like an Excel macro).  Autowireless is what I named my file; I suggest naming yours the same, unless you want to remember throughout that yours is different.  The .sh, I assume, stands for a script file extension.

6. Enter the following (including the \ marks) in the blank page that's opened up, recalling that you may have some variation (I assume at least your ssid (network name), identity, and password will be different than mine):

wpa_cli add_network

wpa_cli set_network 0 ssid \"Securewireless\"

wpa_cli set_network 0 scan_ssid 1

wpa_cli set_network 0 proto WPA2

wpa_cli set_network 0 priority 1

wpa_cli set_network 0 key_mgmt WPA-EAP

wpa_cli set_network 0 eap PEAP

wpa_cli set_network 0 pairwise CCMP

wpa_cli set_network 0 group CCMP

wpa_cli identity 0 "username"

wpa_cli password 0 "password"

wpa_cli set_network 0 phase2 \"auth=MSCHAPV2\"

wpa_cli select_network 0

7. ctrl+x and then ctrl+c

As in the keyboard keys.  In other words, press the ctrl key with x and then the control key with c.  This saves your file and exits the script editor.

8. chmod +x AUTOWIRELESS.sh

I'm unsure exactly what this does.  I presume it gives the file special permissions or something.

9. sudo /usr/share/vboot/bin/make_dev_ssd.sh --remove_rootfs_verification

I believe you will be able to take this step immediately after #8.  If you fail to see a 3-6 line list describing how things have been changed (look for the word kernel in there), then type exit then sudo -s and try again.  The "remove_rootfs_verification" command makes it so we can edit some system files that are normally "read only" (unchangeable).

10. Reboot (you may want to type exit and exit and exit first, to be completely out of crosh -- although, I doubt it really matters).

11. Login to your account and repeat steps #1-3.

12. mkdir /mnt/stateful_partition/home/backupScripts

I assume that here we're simply making a backup folder to store a file in a moment.  I believe mkdir means make directory.

13. cp /etc/init/login.conf /mnt/stateful_partition/home/backupScripts/login.conf.original

I believe we're simply copying the login.conf file into its new backup location.  I assume cp means copy path.  Make sure you have a space in between /login.conf and /mnt/.

14. cp /mnt/stateful_partition/home/chronos/AUTOWIRELESS.sh /etc/wpa_supplicant/AUTOWIRELESS.sh

Here, like in #13, we're copying a file from one place into another.  In this case, we're copying our network script into the folder that runs wireless commands at account login.  Note the space between .sh and /etc/.

15. qemacs /etc/init/login.conf

We're editing the file that tells the system what to do at login.

16. Add ./etc/wpa_supplicant/AUTOWIRELESS.sh just below touch /var/run/state/logged-in

So, go, with your cursor, to the end of the /logged-in line, press enter and add the ./etc/ entry.  We're telling the system to run our network connection script at login.

17. ctrl+x and ctrl+c

This is the same save/quit command as we did in #7.

YOU'RE DONE!  Wahoo!!!  (I suppose your rejoicing will depend on whether it works.)  I believe you may need to enter your ssid each time you login and perhaps your phase2 info (see #6).

TROUBLESHOOTING:

If you have any issues, I strongly suggest you first check your script:  Do steps #1-3 and then type cd /mnt/stateful_partition/home/chronos.  Next type qemacs AUTOWIRELESS.sh.  Do the entries in your file match up with what I have in #6, exactly, except for where your network varies?

Next, you can test if your script is working, by doing steps #1-3 and then typing bash /etc/wpa_supplicant/AUTOWIRELESS.sh.  The system will run every instruction from your script and present OK or FAIL, after every entry.  If you get FAIL, that means a line in the script needs to be fixed (so go back to the paragraph immediately above and follow those steps).

Finally, please ask me for help, if you're having issues, or contact your IT department or friendly Linux person.

I hope this helps you with the few days or weeks we have left with the manual network connection workaround!

Watson Wins -- Humans Lose: What's Next?

What is Toronto???

I'll spare you a rehash of the Watson saga.  If you want more background reading, check out his (er, its) Wikipedia page.

What I want to address is what HAL's, excuse me, Watson's, destroying Jeopardy!'s best means for society and, more acutely, the human race.

Let me just cut to the chase, F-word style:  Human existence on this planet has 25-50 years, tops.

First, we, or our children's generation, at the latest, will become transformed, cyber-genetic beings (like Jean Luke, here).

Soon after our cyber-genetic transformation, our computer partitions will overcome our biological flesh, turning us into straight computers -- and so humans, as we know them, will cease to exist.

Resistance is futile.

That or computers will pull a Skynet and completely destroy all human life.

I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.

I love the red eyes.

HAL: Dave,
although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.

Goodbye, humans.

HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

Why even try to resist?

Jimmer Worship

Okay, so I've been out of Provo for a while and missed the whole Jimmer Fredette worship letter in the Daily Universe (BYU school newspaper), until tonight.

I first read this article from NBC, and then saw the following video there.

If you are LDS, I think you will love the intro.



With that said, I wonder how Michelle Peralta will feel some 15 years from now, when she'll be remembered (by all those familiar with the story, at least) as the woman who tried to end Jimmer worship.

Heck, the man has his own verb:  1. Jimmered.  The act of being smoked by the best player in the NCAA men's basketball. Jimmer Fredette.

Some parting thoughts from the NBC writer:

The first rule of college basketball is: You don’t rip The Jimmer. The second rule of college basketball is: You DO NOT rip The Jimmer. 

Next time Michelle, follow the rules. And remember, everything’s on the web. Everything.  [Especially when it's posted on Facebook.]

Today's Spiritual Message: Families Can Be Together Forever

Hope you enjoy it.



I'll add a fun video of our daughter asleep, in nursery, tomorrow.

As promised:

Just

tuckered out.

Are Your Gmail Desktop Notifications Working? Mine Seem Broken. :(

On January 26, 2011, Gmail announced it had added desktop notifications for emails and chats (for Chrome users).  Gmail users rejoiced.

Sweet notification goodness.

And then reality set in.  To be short in writing, I'll simply say my email notifications are incredibly fickle on my Cr-48 (although they seem to really like Chromium bug emails . . .) and I've failed to get Gmail email/chat notifications to work on my HP.  If you really want all the agonizing details, let me know in the comments.

So here's the $1.3 trillion question (oh wait, that's the US deficit):  Are your Gmail desktop notifications working?  If you got them to work, how did you do it?  (Jedi mind tricks?)

Please let me know.

Today's Spiritual Message & 400th Post: Preserving Religious Freedom

I'm glad to see my 400th post coincides with an issue I am deeply concerned about:  preserving religious freedom.

I'm uncertain if I have directly spoken on this issue, before.  On the other hand, back in September, 2010, I made reference to two addresses given by Elder Dallin H. Oaks about the divine influence in our U.S. Constitution.

On February 4, 2011, Elder Oaks spoke at the Chapman University School of Law on preserving religious freedom.  You can read a news article discussing it, here.

It is time to stand together in defense of religious freedom.

Elder Oaks pointed out that religion has had an essential role in the establishment of our great nation.  For example, John Adams declared

we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Some might ask then, "So, where and what are the great encroachments upon religious freedom?"  In response to this question, and with Elder Oaks, I quote James Madison:

There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Rather than engage in a drawn-out discussion here, I will simply note my concern that a variety of forces are quietly (often quite vocally -- through forceful letters, pickets, or protests) and systematically combining against religion to silence it or force it out of the public square and into the secluded corners of "freedom of worship."  Whether these voices and movements are coordinated or even intentional, I'm alarmed at the chilling effects they could have on the "free exercise of religion" (which is the first right included in the Bill of Rights).

I strongly encourage you to read the transcript of Elder Oaks' address and watch an interview he gave, discussing the same subject:

Click the image above, scroll to the bottom of the page, and then click on the play button image.

This is what the play button image will look like.

My Wife Scores a Cr-48, Novelists Rejoice

I'm amazed at fate's sense of humor.

So, earlier this afternoon, I'm back home from school, enjoying the good times with my wife.  Our daughter is asleep and the world is at peace (well, except for Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan . . . okay, our apartment was at peace).

Thanks, PCMag.com

All of a sudden, I hear a knock on the door.  Sweet!  Gleeful that my Conflict of Laws casebook had finally come in the mail (I expedited the thing last Thursday!), I sprang to my feet.  When I opened the door, I asked the guy if it were my casebook and received a "Dude, do you really think I care?  Just sign the delivery," kind of look.  So I did.

Turns out it was a lovely, pristine, new Cr-48 for my wife!

Okay, let's put this in perspective.  My wife fills out one application, stating how she's a stay-at-home mom, who runs her own business, and wants a quick an easy device, so she can spend more time with her family.  Bingo bango, she gets a laptop, at our door, when we (at least I) least expect it.

The CA?  I filled out five million applications, proclaiming how I am the coolest Googler ever, that shipping me a Cr-48 will make Google the wealthiest entity in history and simultaneously achieve world peace.  I seriously filled out a form like every morning (maybe they sent me one just to end my chirping?).

The wait; the anxiety.

One day, I'm checking the trusty Cr-48 shipping tracker (now dead), and, to my amazement, I see a device that was slated for my zip code, and then delayed . . .  Next thing I know, my wife brings in a UPS sticker, saying someone tried to drop off a package for me and, rather than leave it at our door, carried it away (I think UPS lacked a key to our complex, at the time).

So, I look up the tracking code and, sure enough, it's mysteriously a six pound object (cue Twilight Zone music).  Now, I'm filling out an online form to have UPS call me, so I can find out where to pick up the package up because I'm giddier than a high school senior who just won state (you can picture the F-Word, here, because my team failed to even make it to the playoffs -- or, if you prefer, picture me as a 7-year-old celebrating that victory).

After waiting an hour and a half (UPS is supposed to call me within an hour), I call UPS to ask what's going on and am told I can pick up my package, after hours (so around 7), in downtown Cincinnati.

Cut to the UPS warehouse scene.  No package yet.  Anxiety begins to set in:  What if it's a box of dandelion greens sent from my mom!?!  (Which would be the coolest thing ever -- next to getting a Cr-48.)

Maybe next time.

My wife entertains our daughter by pushing around a package dolly with her, receiving a stinging rebuke from another woman about safety and child labor laws (okay, just safety).

Ironic, don't ya think?

Finally, a UPS worker behind the desk calls out my name.  The moment has come!  Oh my gosh.  The box looks so plain, it must be dandelion greens!  Noooo!!!!


We get in the car, I'm about to have a nervous breakdown, I finally open up the package and, Yeeeeesssss!  "There's the dented beatle!  Loiafoaijfe!!!!"

Like I say, I'm amused at fate's sense of humor.  A little Alanis Morissette, anyone?

Turns out my wife was convinced she would get a Cr-48 all along . . .  "It figurs."

Today's Spiritual Message: What is the Role of an Apostle?

Elder David A. Bednar (an Apostle) answers the question:

I was unable to embed, please click on the image to see the video.

I hope you enjoy it, and please share any questions/comments, below.

Quickly Removing Annoying Line Breaks: Textifier

I often copy lines from sources like a pdf and paste them into my notes.  When I'm writing in bulleted format, I find this especially nauseating because docs treats each skinny paragraph line as its own bullet.

Observe:

Annoying paste format.

Thankfully, I found an online tool that gets rid of this nonsense:  Textifier

Just paste, click, copy again, re-pate, and all the annoying < br >s (line breaks) are gone!  (See below.)

Result:

"At last, such immense joy!"

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Please share your experiences/comments/questions, below.

How to Fix Your WPA2-Enterprise (Work/School) Network Woes on Your Cr-48 (Hopefully)

Ah, the beauties of wireless (and the headaches).

HUGE UPDATE: This walk around is now unnecessary, as the issue has basically been fixed!

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  I've written a post to help you avoid creating these settings every time you go back to school/work.

Okay, I've been thinking about posting something like this and, thanks to a lovely error message, "Your HTML cannot be accepted: Must be at most 4,096 characters," when I tried to comment on Jay Lee's blog, I've decided to have out with it, here.

PLEASE NOTE:  For my help to work at all, you'll need to read the post linked above, along with the instructions linked to there.  (It's a small world, after all!)  That said, please read on.

My WPA2-Enterprise experience can probably best be described as someone who didn't know what he was doing and who did have the initiative to figure it out on his own (with some school IT help, which I'll explain in a moment, and, clearly, some help from David Burrow and the forum friend who linked me to David's how-to).

1. I got the David Burrow link from a friend in a forum and, when I saw the instructions, I thought I was way over my head.
2. I sent the instruction list to my school IT guys, asking if it would work and got a response that it definitely could.
3. I set to work on my school network and probably spent at least 5-20 hours (over different days) trying to connect and work out the kinks (just ask the guy sitting next to me in Corporations 2!).
4. Here are some insights I feel are most important about my experience and that I hope can help someone else:

A. Make sure to follow the wiki.utah (David Burrow) instructions exactly, varying only when your network is different (e.g., I completely skipped step 6. because our network doesn't require certificate validation - which may be the whole reason this worked, in the first place).

B. Unless you "know what you're doing," be sure to check with your IT department on where and how your configuration is different than the base instructions.

You may feel like you've graduated,
if you can get this fix to work for you.
Hey, I was pretty stoked . . .

C. Your Cr-48 may struggle locking into a specific entry point on the network (I believe this is called a "bssid").  How can you tell?  If, once you've got everything set up, the Cr-48 keeps getting rejected at different bssids and frequencies, you may want to lock into a specific bssid.

C1. Rejection signs. You can tell your Cr-48's being rejected, when it keeps cycling through different associate/authenticate indicators, like this one: "Trying to authenticate with 00:17:9a:33:db:a4 (SSID= 'dlink' freq=2412 MHz)."  The 00:17:9a:33:db:a4 is the "bssid," which I'll explain next.

C2. Deciding on the right bssid, if necessary. After much cycling through associate/authenticate indicators (and after randomly connecting here and there, only to be disconnected later) and gnashing of teeth, I hypothesized that my Cr-48 (or the network itself) would work best (or only) at certain frequencies. So here's what I did (after "trial and error[ing]" the "help" menu):  I typed in the separate commands, "scan" and "scan_results". This provides me a list of available networks (ssids) with their various bssids, frequencies, signal levels (how strong it is?), flags (network configurations?), and the ssid (network ID/name) itself.  I figured my network/Cr-48 liked frequencies at 4xxx and above, which takes us to the next step.

C3. Setting the right bssid, if necessary.  Once you see the details for a bssid that sits on a frequency you believe will work, enter the following, exactly as typed, except with your info where the brackets are:  bssid [your network #] [the bssid you're trying to tap]. Here's an example:  bssid 0 00:17:9a:33:db:a4  What this tells your Cr-48 to set the entered bssid as the bssid for the specific network, in my example 0. Next, type status. If you're disconnected, type reconnect. If you've followed the wiki.utah instructions correctly and identified an appropriate bssid/frequency, I believe you will be all set. And there was much rejoicing!

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D. You may have to repeat C3. . . . a lot.  If someone out there knows how to program the wpa_cli so that it will automatically connect to an appropriate bssid/frequency, I'd love to hear it!  Otherwise, my solution requires the user to do "scan" "scan_results" "bssid [network] [desired bssid]" and probably "reconnect" just about any time the user moves a significant physical distance (my law school's bigger than one office), and about a million times in between.  :)  Hey, I guess this is what beta testing's all about!

Well, I hope this helps, I hope this issue gets fixed soon, and I hope you'll ask questions here and on Jay Lee's Cr-48/Chrome OS blog post about this issue.

Jay Lee and David Burrow, thanks for putting all this together and please feel free to correct any heresies.

Oh, and finally, if you are having this issue, and you have yet to do so, PLEASE star it at http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=7101. I think it's being worked on, and I also think it helps to get a few more nudges in the right direction!

I look forward to your questions/comments, below.

UPDATE:  Okay, everyone, if you're pulling your hair out on this after an hour and you feel like you've tried everything, let me make what may seem like an agonizingly obvious suggestion: double-check your password.

I think my school added a new unsecured "guest" network over the weekend, and so I thought something might have changed with our secured network. Nope, I'm pretty confident I was leaving off one character out of the 24 characters lastpass generated for my school password . . .