First of all, Best Buy isn't a computer store, why you would take a computer there to be fixed by a condescending high school kid is beyond me. But some of that is me being angry at how a friend of mine was treated after having purchased a laptop and some services there. Sorry gal, hope you have better luck with your next purchase.
Anywho, I had some fun this morning. I finally sat down and hacked dd-wrt onto my router (actually it was easy on my wrt54g -v3.1, built into the update function on the unit). The wrt54g v6 that my manager at work gave me was a bit harder, the smaller factory installed memory on the v5 and later units means you must first of all use the micro version of dd-wrt and also, you must override the firmware locks with the different nature of the firmware on these newer units. It was fun uploading a bin file with the word "kill" in it's file to a router that I would rather not brick. Long story short, both installs were successful and without major hitches, though some minor pounding of fists was done at the shop while I tried to fix my new free router there.
So, here's the new setup with these updated devices:
Comcast's crappy modem <===> wrt54g v3.1 <)))> wrt54g v6 configured as a client
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|| || ===> linksys 5 port switch for roommates
|| ===> linksys 16 port switch for my little computer lab under my desk
===> linux server that will be joined by a windows server soon
Text is fun. I have some more web work to finish up this evening, and then I'll be turning in. I have reached my geek point quota for the month.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
That's what I should have been doing for the last 8 hours. But instead, I was writing ASP and VBScript. I've made a lot of progress, and am sure I'll fall asleep in church today. Then I've gotta code more this afternoon and try to get this part of the project done by tonight. So I can sleep. zzzzzzzzzz.......
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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