Obsolete Your Idols

Goodbye / Hello

My former co-worker Oliver Marsh has moved on to do his Own Thing at Video Fantastica!. He was already doing his own thing at Dig Your Own Grave.

He's pretty selective in what gets on to DYOG; he declined to post the only link I ever sent him. Do stop in and take a look at his sites.

posted at 09:23 PDT (-0700)     (comments disabled)   permanent link   Technorati tagged as: aggregation, funny, people i know, video, web

Excuuuuuuuuuuse Me!

The venerable-in-computer-years Linksys WRT54G we use for home wireless became incapable of sustaining a wireless connection, no matter how I spun it, configured it, or hoisted it. I updated the firmware, no joy.

I bought a Netgear which looked like an upgrade in functionality, but which was even more cumbersome to configure, had similar problems sustaining connections and additionally added a connection timeout to the mix, even across wired circuits.

So I tried what I should have done in the first place.

I turned to one of the open-source firmwares for it, dd-wrt and it's worked like a champ all week. Not only that but the administrative interface is actually informative, the settings seem to actually change and, perhaps most importantly to me, it gives me a login shell.

So I'll be returning the Netgear for some other chump to waste money on. I hope this Linksys can go for a bit longer with the firmware upgrade.

Then we availed ourselves of an opportunity to hear Cecilia Tan speak at Borderlands Books. That was fun and funny. She's a witty speaker with clever anecdotes. The only downside to the trip was that I kept seeing books which I wanted to buy. Which I wouldn't get around to reading for maybe a year or more.

posted at 08:33 PDT (-0700)     (comments disabled)   permanent link   Technorati tagged as: chronology, dd-wrt, dell, laptop, WAP