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Xoke — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:32:19 +0000

My board at work!

Flashing a Router with DD-WRT

Xoke — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:57:27 +0000

Apologies for the bad quality. I really was installing DD-WRT whilst recording, for the first time! I tried to tidy it up but it’s still fairly rough!

Go the the DD-WRT website.
Go to Router Database.
Search for your Router (or one you might want to buy), in my case the Linksys WRT54GL from NewEgg (note: NOT a sponsored link and other shops are available).
Read this stuff: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486
Notes: Initial flashing ‘Mini Generic’ via web interface. Give it at least 2 mins after reboot!
Installation guide: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation
Lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/178132/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router
Short version:
1. Plug in the router
2. Install the mini-generic DD-WRT firmware
3. Reboot the router if it doesn’t restart itself
4. Install the full DD-WRT firmware. It should restart
5. Enjoy the shininess of the new firmware!
6. Reset the password and username!

Thoughts.

The router restarts itself when you flash the firmware, which is nice.

If you change the IP of the router you may have to disconnect and reconnect the network through linux to force it to update the new IP address. Don’t forget like I did!

To set up a Wii via Wi-Fi you need to set the router up as ‘Ad-Hoc’ else it doesn’t seem to show in the Wii menu.

I had problems with my previous router being 192.168.1.1 and the DSL being 192.168.0.1 making me hard reset and set the details back up. Might be unrelated to this, however changing the IP to 192.168.10.1 for the router and keeping 192.168.0.1 for the DSL resolved this problem.

It was pretty damn simple! At least a lot simple and faster then installing windows!

Total time isn’t too long, but I’d recommend having a second router on hand (if you can) to keep internet access in case things go hairy!

Oh Microsoft, how I have missed thee…

Xoke — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:51:29 +0000

… because I had forgotten about your stupid antics.

So at work I’m back working with a few Windows servers and a Windows domain and a bunch of Linux web servers and similar.

Anyway so we’re tidying up stuff and we have an old copy of Visual Source Safe. So I log in and it wants to run some check. Fair enough, except when I was letting it run it couldn’t figure out what percentage it was through:

It checks the filenames on the left, from AAAAA to ZZZZZ (no idea what they are though). But it claims to be at 100%. Well we all knew Microsoft Couldn’t count.

Then on another server I was looking up something (specifically the process monitor from sys internals). I got this message:

The ‘Internet Explorer Enhances Security Configuration’ blocks bing.com. Is there something it knows that we don’t?

Anyway that was all I wanted to say, just another fun day at the office

Windows 7 Install (HPR Episode)

Xoke — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:20:24 +0000

Just a little slideshow for the screenshots…

Also I just listened to my episode again and realise I kept calling it VMWare. I was running Virtual Box. Apologies for the confusion.

(Slightly Late) Book Answer

Xoke — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:38:00 +0000

Here is the top part of the first page.

It’s a book on solitaire of course… what were you thinking it was?

Also I must apologise to Caibbor for not posting this earlier. Sorry

Bacon!

Xoke — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:34:19 +0000

Bacon!

My New Job

Xoke — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:04:44 +0000

So I’m working again as most people know. Odd as it’s as a contractor and it’s very complicated. Anyway so we had to use our own equipment and we haven’t spent time tidying it up as we’re in a temporary location. This is what the office looks like:

(Click for the larger image)

You can’t see but there is another machine just below where the picture ends (hence the cables running that way). Also note the mountain dews (more are there behind monitors!)

Highlighted picture below, as you can’t really see everything:

FOUR red highlighted laptops (one is hidden by another one almost)

FOUR green highlighted routers. Or maybe only three. I’ve lost track now. I highlighted four though.

ONE blue server (aka the boss’s desktop PC)

Four running laptop, three network hubs, two mountain dews and an overpowered gaming machine? Sounds almost like a song!

Sadly only my laptop and the server are running Linux though

** UPDATE **

Four routers. Only three plugged in though.

What is up with the UK?

Xoke — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:10:49 +0000

My parents are visiting and brought me a gift. Some yummy marmite and a spreader and toast rack.

Fantastic! Being me I read the stuff on the back.

Do not sell to under 18s? Presumably because of the knife (although I may be wrong on this assumption!)

Let’s look at this knife shall we?

Not even a sharp point. But how sharp are the edges?

The other side is just as sharp (or just as unsharp).

So unless I’m missing something, it is banned for under 18s purely because the implement here is described as a ‘knife’! Idiotic!

New T-Shirt Idea

Xoke — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:01:05 +0000

With some help from @Fabsh

(yeah 2 minutes in Inkscape to make the image)

Google Chrome / Chromium

Xoke — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:58:54 +0000

I have been playing around with Chromium recently. There are a few sites that seem to run better with it (a couple of free online-games for example). If you don’t know, Chromium is basically the ‘unbranded’ version of Chrome, and is usually a fraction ahead. Think of it a bit like a stable beta. Bad analogy I know, but it’s sort of like that.

There are various ways to get the Chromium version, but there is a PPA set up for Ubuntu with the daily stable builds (and for daily unstable builds). To install the daily stable:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable

Just like Firefox, you can add plugins and some of the ones I like are:

Adblock – not quite as good as the Firefox version, but good
Button for Adblock – gives a button for the above plugin
Ghostery – blocks websites from tracking you
Google Voice – notifies you when you get a call and lets you make calls
Day Hiker – Google calendar button / reminder

There is no proper noscript yet that I have found though, but these are a good start