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tangled up in blue

tangled up in blue

Originally uploaded by paulbeard.

Greenlake Flickr photostroll today.

Found a new interesting sights, the kind of thing that happens when you slow down. As Capa is reputed to have said, if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. I would add that if you’re not seeing anything, slow down. A lot of what I seemed to be doing was taking notes for further exploration. There were things that needed a closer or more careful look than I could give them today, but now I have a reminder or a hint of how it could be done.

resetting a forgotten WRT54G web admin password

For some reason, I haven’t been able to access wireless router consistently. My password seems not to be right. But how to create/change it if you can’t log in? This assumes a WRT54G with the dd-wrt firmware.

Assuming you’re on some system that supports openssl (I did this on FreeBSD), you can just make a new one:

[/usr/home/paul]# openssl passwd
Password: ********
Verifying – Password:
********
#########

Assuming you’re not totally locked out (you did set up ssh, didn’t you?), you can then write your changes to the router’s nvram and it should work for you with the new password.

nvram set http_passwd =
#########
nvram commit

If anyone can offer advice on other ways to do this, please leave them in comments.

want fresh veggies? go pick them yourself

Crackdown on illegal immigrants leads to a shortage of farm workers:

What do you know? The crackdown on illegal immigration has led to a shortage of produce pickers this year.

The tightening of the border with Mexico, begun more than a decade ago but reinforced since May with the deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops, has forced California growers to acknowledge that most of their workers are illegal Mexican migrants. The U.F.W. estimates that more than 90 percent of the state’s farm workers are illegal.

Whaddaya think? Will we see a sudden surge in domestic/native-born workers to fill those jobs?

The bottomline seems to be: do you want to let the stuff rot in the fields or on the shelves?

If we were to somehow get everything picked but at the wages demanded by native-born workers, the prices would be too high for many to buy anything. So it might end up making more sense to leave them to compost rather than dump them in the waste stream.