Bought a linksys ADSL2 Modem/router today – an AG241. Works out of the box (plus a firmware upgrade). Everything going without problems.
Yay linksys, sucks to netgear.
linksys better than netgear
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fuck netgear
Fuck them right in the ear.
The web UI sucks, doesn’t actually work properly under a free browser (errr… okay, Gecko based) – namely the page where you can change the IP of the router.
In modem mode, it seems to still be able to do PPPoA authentication – which makes really weird shit happen. like a netmask of 255.255.255.255 – which I’m not actually convinced is a ADSL modem problem, possible internode instead. Think about how the hell you’re meant to access your gateway.
Oh, and the port forwarding doesn’t work!!!
It’s a Netgear DG632 ADSL Modem Router.
Although it does run linux (or at least some GPL and some LGPL software). Why the hell can’t i just get a console into the darn thing.
just what i wanted to spend time on after a day moving.
Slashdot | Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design
Slashdot | Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design
This is pretty ultra-cool news. Especially in academic circles and for upcoming chip designers.
I’m sure that there’s decent business models in place so that they don’t cannibalise their hardware sales.
What would be very cool is if cheap manufactures pick up slightly older chip generations and produce them for dirt-cheap prices. This means more commodity hardware – which is very good for humanity.
It also makes it possible to run an even more open platform where even the source to your CPU is available!
Pineapple
Today, for breakfast – my brother cut up possibly the most delicious pineapple ever. Sweet, juicy and nearly gone by now.
Oh how I love summer fruits.
Art of Software
1.5 is definitely better then 1.2, for instance it works.
Brian “Krow” Aker’s Idle Thoughts – Asterisk@Home 1.5
A comparison can be made between MemberDB 0.3 and 0.4. 0.4 will actually work (err, install without intimate knowledge)
Foot High In Tray
When the In tray gets to be over a foot high, you know it’s time to actually go through it.
It’s small again now – less than an hour (while doing other things).
I should really move to interrupt mode instead of batch mode.
Although most of the things that go into my in tray really only need filing, i’ve already taken the action.
Meet the IT Gigolo
I don’t really know what to say to go along with this one. Possibly some childish sniggering.
Corpse Bride
Saw Corpse Bride last night (IMDB). Was rather good and cleverly done. Will be interesting to see what Margaret and David give it.
how not to design a website
be a speaker at OSDC. Use their web system. I’m a smart guy and getting confused. Honestly guys, send in the slides for a presentation should not be a difficult task.
Contrast this with the recent AUUG conf where i attached files to an email and then clicked on the big Send button.
If via a web form it should be the *exact* equivilent. Not four different fields to specify the darn title of the thing.
PortaWiki – collaboration on portability issues
At AUUG2005 last week, Arjen, myself and others were discussing the idea of trying to assemble some sort of common resources that multiple projects can use to contribute and find out about portability issues they stumble across.
The idea being that we can all then learn from each other and write better, more portable software.
So, I’ve set something up.
I present, the incredibly bare (okay, not quite completely bare) PortaWiki.
Please add whatever stuff you find, you know or anything. No idea how this is going to work – I plan to let it evolve.
(Arjen tells me that Peter Gutmann should receive credit as he thinks he came up with the idea. Kudos to him).
EFF: DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
EFF: DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
I am glad I don’t have a printer.
broken bookshelves
Why do these actually look practical?
Serenity
Spotted in a review:
“The major difference between Lucas’ movies and Whedon’s movies is the superb dialogue.”
The next day after seeing Serenity I was with friends watching Firefly on DVD and at the end of ever episode (okay, part way through it – and generally more than once) someone would ask “why the hell was this cancelled? they must be stupid or something”.
VGA Out and presentations
I can now give presentations from my laptop – yay.
It requires running the ATI binary drivers instead of the open source ones.
Then VGA out works without being squiggly. (that’s on my Asus V6V laptop with a Radeon X600 running Ubuntu Breezy) – there’ that should be enough google juice.
However, as if being binary only wasn’t crappy enough – suspend doesn’t work. So it’s open source drivers for all other times! I don’t use GL, so that doesn’t worry me. Of course, it may start to worry me what with all the neat cairo stuff and other accelleration coming… but not yet.
This should come in handy for the Melbourne MySQL Users Group meeting tomorrow night!
I know famous people
Tim McCoy’s Homepage
The caption perhaps should read “Success begins with an arm the size of your finger”
mouse gestures
I once thought mouse gestures were weird and crackful. A good way to hide away functionality and make things difficult.
Well… I’ve started using them. Currently I’m using Epiphany as my web broswer (although there’s enough nice firefox things out there that I may switch at some point… if i can get my saved passwords across). The mouse gestures here (naturally) use a different bloody button than the package I’m using on firefox (right button is more logical as laptops generally only have two. or one).
But talk about useful and fast. even just back and forward. maybe integrating this with a pop-up display of what actions you can do (for learning them) would really seal the deal.
weird search strings
At a recent LUV thing, I mentioned that for some inexplicable reason, people got to my blog by searching for “nipple pokies”.
Well, last month, 11 people got to my web site because of it.
seriously, what the?
Microsoft loses in Eolas patent ruling | CNET News.com
Microsoft loses in Eolas patent ruling | CNET News.com
Come on Microsoft – join us in the fight against software patents. This clearly hurts the entire industry – be it big vendors like yourself or small ones.
Let’s not all get royally screwed.
FIX: Network File System (NFS) client users that do not have the
Aparrently Linus himself is a NFS client.
(I’d report the bug to MS, but it seems impossible to do so).
all the best
all the best to the Waugh household having hit (as jdub describes it) crisis mode.
All the best with whatever the big badness is.