DD-WRT: Bring Out The Best Of Your WiFi Router
By using an open source replacement firmware you can turn your $60 Linksys WRT54G into a feature rich router that would easily be worth over $600. All with variants of the OpenWRT firmware. The DD-WRT firmware is a third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many 802.11g wireless routers based [...]
RFID Poker Table
Have you ever wanted to host your own World Poker style tournament like the one on TV? With all of the bells and whistles including letting people see who’s got what, well now you can. This might not be affordable for the average “Guy’s Poker Night”, but I can see this being a hit at [...]
Opentape
I had never heard of Muxtape until it was shut down by RIAA. Thanks RIAA for brining such an awesome service to my attention and thanks for moving the open source project Opentape to the forefront so we can continue to enjoy this fantastic product. Opentape isn’t affiliated with Muxtape, but it’s similar in functionality [...]
Rebooting Linux Magically
If you have ever had a filesystem fail on you in Linux then you are quite aware of that “bottom of the pit” feeling you get in your stomach, especially if you are remote to the server and have no physical access to it. What to do if the system can’t load the reboot or [...]
How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache
Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]
Set Up Mozilla Weave On Your Server
Sad like the rest of us that Google decided to cease development of it’s Firefox synchronizer? Not happy that foxmarks just doesn’t provide with you enough? Why not run your own mozilla weave server in order to synch all of your firefox installations. Blogger Marios Tziortzis has posted a detail step by step guide on [...]
DIY Slingbox
Creative hardware hacker David laid out some steps on hacking together your own Slingbox. Using a Mac Mini, an old DV camera, and Quicktime Broadcaster he is able to capture the stream of his cable box with the DV camera then send it over to the Mac Mini via firewire, then using Quicktime Broadcaster he [...]
New Exciting Features For The Blackberry
RIM (you know that tiny company in Canada) announced some highly anticipated features today for their flagship product, the Blackberry. Many of these new features make it easier to work and collaborate with your coworkers. I’m a heavy blackberry user so I’m excited to see all of these new features. Now if RIM would only [...]
Maxed Out Mac Requires A Mortgage
Since Apple announce earlier this week new Desktop machines, and since I’m due a new Desktop to work on, I figured what the hell lets hit the Apple store online and see what I could build. They offer so much, so many options, so many toys, so many bells and whistles. I figured let’s load [...]
Parallels Server Beta Begins
This is going to give the Mac IT admins the largest collective wood since the release of the XServe. The virtulization company Parallels has announced that they have moved their server product into beta. This is the first virtulization solution to run on Apple hardware that will allow admins to run multiple versions of Leopard [...]
Turn A Windows Mobile 6 Device Into A WiFi Router
Every wanted a GPRS-Uplinked WiFi router? WMWifiRounter will do just that. The utility that you run on your WiFi-capable Windows Mobile 6 device will turn it into a GPRS-uplinked WiFi router. It sets up your WiFi link in ad-hoc mode and starts a DHCP server in order to hand out ip addresses to neighboring machines. [...]
RAID Primer
Now that some of us got shinny new external hard drive units that support RAID I figured we might as well go through a basic RAID primer for all so everyone know the difference between 1, 0, and 5, I know it gets confusing. With technology advancing at lightening speeds what was once only available [...]
Best of the week – Aug 13 -19
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Windows home server pricing leaked
Amazon.com today listed two HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server systems on their site. The two models being offered are, the HP EX470 and EX475, both have a 64-bit 1.8GHz AMD Sempron and have 4 slide-out drive bays that use standard SATA drives; the EX745 come preloaded with two 500GB drives already installed. Systems will run [...]
iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 Is Out
By Frank on Aug 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A new iPhone update just hit the servers. Version 2.0.2 is described as a bug fix release. As always a version can be downloaded directly from Apple’s servers or through the Update feature in iTunes. If you have jailbroken your phone then this update will de-pwn your phone. If you find any new features in [...]
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