Month: October 2007

I have been having some trouble with my dd-wrt-powered wireless AP. I have a LinkSys WRT54G and have been running the dd-wrt firmware for as long as I have had it. But lately it has been giving me some issues with dropouts. Service just temporarily goes away. I’m not completely hosed as I also have a FON router in place, but it only supports DHCP and I use static addresses.

So I grabbed the latest version (DD-WRT v24 std) and looked into installing it. Turns out there is a way to install on the command-line, without the risk of over-the-air upgrades getting bogged down or breaking.

This is available on routers that have DD-WRT installed and SSH enabled.

[From Installation – DD-WRT Wiki]

Excellent. That’s what I have. But I found the instructions a little complicated. If you have an SMB/cifs share available. it’s a lot easier to simply place the new firmware there and load it, rather than try to fetch it from the router itself. I haven’t found the ipkg infrastructure to work all that well. I haven’t tried it in v24, only v23, so things might be better now. But upgrading to 24 implies you don’t have it, right?

Anyway, I edited the page (the link is above) and hope it helps someone else.

Read the whole thing, seriously.

That summarizes the problem the CD industry has. Not only are they fighting something cheaper, they’re also fighting something better than they are willing to offer. Is it any surprise that they’re losing? [From Quality is the killer feature]

Our basis in what we do have is $10. Wish I had bought a bunch when it was at $13 or so.

Heck, even at the 52 week low of $76, it would be a good deal. And it’s conceivably a mover even at the current price. Will it cross $200 next week when Leopard ships?

• Drudge Power
  says it all really: they use a gossip column that wishes it were good enough to be called tawdry as their pole star.
  (tags: journamalism media culture values)
• What the Fuck
  straight out of 1977 . . . .
  (tags: music)
• Low Road to Splitsville
  ah, the values embodied by our betters: read on to learn more about the financier of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and how he conducts his affairs.
  (tags: hypocrisy money power corruption politics values)
• SF magazines’ circulation numbers in sad decline
  “how many more years’ worth of 13 percent declines can the magazines hack?” I make it about 7 and change.
  (tags: media markets)

• TSA’s crazy screener-testing: giving “bombs” to regular passengers to sneak onboard?!?
  Stupidest. Idea. Ever.
  (tags: stupidity securitytheater airsafety)
• I Give Up
  Stephen Fry on addiction. I think this — writing for his internetworked public — might be a new addiction. Good for us.
  (tags: writing)
• WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage
  does this conflict with, extend, or interoperate with Google Gears?
  (tags: osx safari software tech webkit opensource google)

doing some family tree delving and I found a parish register. I was struck by the descriptions of people’s conditions. A spinster at 22? Was that the commonly used term for a young unmarried woman? And what age are you at “Full?”

Seems a little harsh to me.

Google examines queries for possible automated requests?

Interesting. Not sure how one request qualified for such special treatment. That captcha looks more legible that most, as well.

• Plame’s CIA job was to stop Iran from obtaining nukes.
  Yeah, we knew that. Looks like it was a lost cause, if Pakistan was proliferating as much as reported.
  (tags: nuclearweapons proliferation politics worstpresidentever)

OK, maybe not in the Art Deco style, but why not have durable and attractive reusable cases. Board and power supplies are getting smaller, I think we have reached the lower bound on the size and number of removable media ports. And those could be hidden behind a cover of some sort.

This is a nice way of taking your PC back to the 1930s Art Deco designed world. Maybe it will also make us think back to the time when consumer electronics weren’t just pocket-sized gadgets that can be thrown away after a couple years of use.

The Art Deco PC Mod – [via] – Link

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• Writing – Cooking – Life » Blog Archive » I Heart Zappos
  I’ll add Zappos to my list of preferred merchants . . .
  (tags: zappos business values)