I’ve finally finished the WRT54G-based WDS mesh network that I’ll be using as the house VoIP backbone. This also lets me avoid ever having to run Cat5 anywhere in the house; if I need non-wireless access somewhere, I just add another WRT54G.
I’ve got four nodes right now (a v2.0, 2.2, 3.0, and [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2005’
Mesh network completed
Historical Advertisements
I scanned some more historical UNIX-related advertisements from some early-90s issues of UNIXWorld Magazine.
CompUSA Insanity
I headed to CompUSA this afternoon to pick up another Linksys WRT54G wireless router, so I can finish setting up the network in the house in preparation for moving all of our inside phones to VoIP later next month. As I pulled up to park, I noticed a line of about 30 people in [...]
More OpenSolaris goodness
I’ve gotten the last two OpenSolaris source releases (20050701 and 20050720) to build without a problem on my Ultra 60. Build time went from 4:00 (initial OS release, building on top of Solaris Express) to almost 6:30 (building OS on top of itself, in debug mode) but I had no problems. Looks like [...]
Misguided cops and Pringles cans
Wow, I didn’t know that owning a Cantenna is illegal. </sarcasm>
When police searched his home, they found aluminum-lined, cylindrical potato-chip containers that some hackers use as crude antennas to help them intercept wireless signals.
Known as “cantennas,” they consist of a Pringles can and some hardware worth $5 to $10 but can be used to [...]
wireless networking revisited
Tonight I replaced my year-old Linksys WRT54Gv2 with a brand-new WRT54Gv3, running the Sveasoft Talisman 1.0.5 replacement firmware.
I’ve also got a WRT54Gv2.2 in the music room, bridging the systems in there (Mac mini, AMD Windows machine, Dell SC420 running Linux) to the rest of the network.
With the prior v2 ‘54G, I never got more than [...]
data center tip #12
When you get called into the office at 4am to fix a downed mail server, the best way to keep warm in the data center is to stand behind the 7′ rack of HP DL360s.
It just amazes me
that a $250 TV from Samsung, of all companies, doesn’t come with connection/AV cables of any kind.
This is a really nice unit, though. One good thing about HDTV getting cheaper and cheaper is that SD sets that would have cost $500 or more two or three years ago are now half that price. [...]
More Adventures in Home Ownership
I had to come home from work yesterday when Amy called and said “we have a roof leak.”
Got home, and saw this. Water damage to some of the old paneling on the outside wall, but no problems at all to the ceiling, which was very baffling. We figured that we had a roof [...]
Image of the day..
Trent Reznor and his grandfather with front-row seats on The Price Is Right.