How to create an archive

Why the hell do people who write ray tracers, whether in Python, Haskell, or Erlang, always put all the files into the top level of the archive instead of creating a subdirectory?

x61 kill switch

Update: Oh look, there's a kill switch down there underneath the front of the computer. I must have hit in with my stomach. Why does my computer have two kill switches? Well, whatever, I'm writing this update on my X61 with working wireless.

Hi. I received my Thinkpad x61 recently, with the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG wireless chip.

Things were going (fairly) well, but today my kill switch got activated, probably when I was trying to toggle my wireless off and then on after hibernating. And now I can't turn off the kill switch (that is to say, I can't turn my wireless back on). I hit Function-F5 and nothing happens; the wireless light remains dark. Of course, the ipw3945 and iwl3945 drivers both just say "Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On" when they're installed at boot (or when I modprobe them manually). This happened in Gutsy and in Hardy, which I upgraded to to see if it would be fixed.

Any ideas? It almost looks like bug #121415, but not really: I'm even worse off than those people, since I can't enable my wireless chip in any way.