Various notes, if you see something you want to know more about or can expand my knowledge, feel free.
I added a network interface to my TiVo series 2 this afternoon. Couldn’t have been easier. Interesting that, in my basement, the antenna for this device picked up 3 more local wireless networks than I had seen before. I need to move the antenna(s) up into the attic to make sure they present the strongest signal. The TiVo showed up in my ZeroConf services list (sorry, Bonjour is a dumb name and I’m not using it) right away.
Judge of my delight when I learned that I need to buy third-party software to actually make a networked TiVo worth anything. That was outsourced to Roxio, apparently. <grumble>
Still seeing weird wireless network dropouts on my G5 iMac, perhaps due to authentication, but it seems more to do with signal strength. Did I mention moving the antennas?
I wanted to turn remote syslogging on for the dd-wrt-enabled access point, but the standard syslog seems unwilling to take remote messages. After seeing syslog-ng presented as the solution damn near everywhere, I installed it and it works right out of the box.
Oct 29 20:35:54 erewhon root: is this thing on?
(erewhon is the name of the access point/firewall/hub. Maybe now I’ll have a better idea what’s going on there.)
Got an old LinkSys BEFW11S4 access point via FreeCycle today. No, I don’t know why. I’ll see if I can get dd-wrt running on it and then see if it can be used somewhere. Maybe at my kids’ school, so parents who drop in can get network access. It’s only wireless-B but it was free, assuming it works at all. [update: it seems to work but it’s too old to upgrade the firmware properly. The web pages don’t render properly in any of the browsers I have tried. Wonder if there is another way?]
Also got a 4×5 negative carrier. As soon as I make a lens board to fit the enlarging lens I picked a couple of weeks ago, I can see if I can make a print. Hmm, I need to locate a bulb too, I just remembered.
And I got a 2 channel 27MHz R/C receiver so I can perhaps someday finish making that Mugi EVO I started on a month or so ago.
The KEXP.org pledge drive is making me crazy: my need/desire for funds was bad enough but not I feel guilty for now ponying up something to cover the cost of entertaining me. When they’re good, they are amazingly good.