November 18, 2008, 1:56 am
While browsing through my archives tonight, my thoughts went back to the reliable little Buffalo WHR-G125 router/access point over in the corner. Back in January, I wrote about having issues with my MacBook’s wireless and upgrading to — at the time — the latest version of DD-WRT to see if it would help with the issues.
Many months have passed since then and the wireless issues have went away. Unfortunately, I don’t really remember when they went away. I’m not sure if it had anything to do with the firmware upgrade or not.
Regardless, I browsed over to the DD-WRT site again to see if there was newer firmware available. There was, so I decided to upgrade. Upgrading to the latest version was really easy:
[jlgaddis@cleveland ~]$ ssh root@ap
root@ap's password:
root@router:~# cd /tmp
root@router:/tmp# wget http://tinyurl.com/5qv69u
root@router:/tmp# write dd-wrt.v24_vpn_generic.bin linux
At this point, we have a few minutes to kill. The flash memory isn’t the fastest in the world, and it’ll take a bit to save the file to flash. Once it’s done and our prompt has came back back, we just need to reboot.
root@router:/tmp# reboot
Give the router a minute or two to reboot, and we should be able to login again:
[jlgaddis@cleveland ~]$ ssh root@ap
DD-WRT v24 vpn (c) 2008 NewMedia-NET GmbH
Release: 07/27/08 (SVN revision: 10011)
root@ap's password:
==========================================================
____ ___ __ ______ _____ ____ _ _
| _ \| _ \ \ \ / / _ \_ _| __ _|___ \| || |
|| | || ||____\ \ /\ / /| |_) || | \ \ / / __) | || |_
||_| ||_||_____\ V V / | _ < | | \ V / / __/|__ _|
|___/|___/ \_/\_/ |_| \_\|_| \_/ |_____| |_|
DD-WRT v24
http://www.dd-wrt.com
==========================================================
BusyBox v1.11.1 (2008-07-27 16:20:53 CEST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
root@router:~# exit
Connection to ap closed.
[jlgaddis@cleveland ~]$
October 4, 2008, 7:22 pm
until a few minutes ago, i had a cisco 3620 acting as my internet router. i pulled it out of commission and put a cisco asa 5505 in its place. i decided to run a speed test, and here are the results:
i thought i only had 10 mbps downstream, which is pretty much the limit on the 3620’s nm-1e2w network module i was using to connect to the cable modem. i’m glad i swapped ‘em out!
June 30, 2008, 5:10 pm
if you need a beta code for ping.fm, use “pingofpings”. it worked for me a few minutes ago.
what is ping.fm?
ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. now you don’t have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it.
the idea came about when making some posts to twitter and tumblr
. the idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so ping.fm was born.
June 11, 2008, 10:28 pm
if you happen to be going to cfunited (like me) next week, be sure to read through the cfunited attendee packet — some good info in there to know ahead of time.
this will be my first time attending cfunited and my first time in washington, dc, in about 15 years. anything i should know beforehand? =)
June 11, 2008, 10:22 pm
from the mozilla developer center:
after more than 34 months of active development, and with the contribution of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. it is our expectation to ship firefox 3 this upcoming tuesday, june 17th. put on your party hats and get ready to download firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.
go figure they’ll release it the day i’m heading out to washington, dc, for cfunited. oh well, maybe i’ll find a celebration party in dc.
May 31, 2008, 9:30 pm
in the battle against spam, yahoo said this week that it’s making headway in getting sites to adopt its e-mail-authenticating technology.
called domain keys identified mail, the program confirms that an e-mail is not faked, that it’s actually coming from the address it purports to be.
this has been tried before, in a number of different ways by a number of different companies (including microsoft). it hasn’t worked yet.
yahoo is hiring engineers who know how to identify networks of bots and is investing in technology that will allow yahoo servers around the world to respond and adapt automatically to threats, risher said.
yeah, right. since i’d say 99% of spam comes from botnets, this means we can expect that 1) yahoo will stop allowing spam to be sent through its servers and 2) it’ll stop blocking all of us .edu’s as spam, right? ask any mail admin at a .edu how much of a pain in the ass yahoo is to them if you wonder what i’m talking about.
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