Apr - 6th
Google Posterity post – flashing Belkin F5D7230-4 router with DD-WRT
Posted at 10:18 am | Filed Under netsec, routers, technology
I tried this before and failed several times. The key this time was turning Windows Firewall off to allow TFTP to work I have a Belkin wireless router (model number: F5D7230-4 v1444). For some reason, the “Virtual Server” (or “Port Forwarding”) did not work correctly. It’s obviously a firmware problem. I checked the firmware version [...]
Mar - 11th
Too many social networks, and cell phones
Posted at 10:13 am | Filed Under technology
I’ve been playing with twitter. Lots of fun, nice quick way to keep up with people who don’t have time to create a blog entry. I’m intrigued by what you can do with SMS and some of the sites out there – push rss content to your phone, update a micro-blog, keep up with other [...]
Feb - 26th
Comcast blocking – First the Internet – Now the Public
Posted at 1:36 pm | Filed Under technology
There was huge turnout at today’s public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of concerned citizens arrived to speak out on the importance of an open Internet. Many took the day off from work — standing outside in the Boston cold — to see the FCC Commissioners. But when they reach [...]
Jan - 17th
Tomato – router firmware for Linksys routers
Posted at 12:28 pm | Filed Under technology
I’ve been a DD-WRT user for some time, and just found a nice firmware image called Tomato (What is it with open source projects and silly names?) that looks nice. It’s a little simpler than DD-WRT, the interface is AJAX, and it has a nice bandwidth graphing page that looks useful. I’m going to set [...]
Dec - 12th
Email WayBack Machine
Posted at 7:06 pm | Filed Under technology
My first POP3 email client ever was Eudora. in 1992, we started a process to replace QuickMail at Berkeley Systems. We replaced a system with 7 servers managing a small mail load with a single BSD box running POP3 and Eudora. I used Eudora at several jobs and at home, until HTML formatted email, SPAM, [...]
Dec - 11th
Web mail or IMAP?
Posted at 9:58 am | Filed Under technology
I’m an IMAP fan, and have reluctantly moved over to Gmail. Gmail is the least intrusive of the webmails out there, and I like the threading feature. Nothing, but NOTHING bugs me more than seeing a flashing/animated ad on the page while I’m trying to compose an email. Merlin Mann has a good thread going [...]
Nov - 8th
MyEnTunnel, Slick Windows SSH Tunneling
Posted at 12:18 pm | Filed Under technology
I found a program called MyEnTunnel that does all the proxying and tunneling I was doing with Putty, but frees my taskbar, automatically reconnects, and has a friendly icon in the system tray to alert me of connection status. This program is definitely worth a look. It uses Plink from the killer Putty distribution for [...]
Nov - 5th
How to easily remove information from Google Cache
Posted at 9:36 am | Filed Under reference, technology
How to easily remove information from Google Cache With all of the press dedicated to professional consulting services to SEO or cleansing search results, here’s a self-help article showing how to remove your own items from Google cache as well as how to remove external links. [via Zhongg Internet Digest ] Possibly Related Posts: Shoehorning [...]
Oct - 1st
Route all of your internet traffic through a proxy
Posted at 9:51 am | Filed Under technology
Route all of your internet traffic through a proxy Do you work from coffee shops or communal public wireless presences (like FON) and want to keep your internet traffic safe? With an SSH account on a server outside of your wireless location (through a web hosting service Dreamhost, my service that includes SSH access to [...]
Aug - 20th
When NOT to use email…
Posted at 8:47 am | Filed Under organization / productivity, technology
It would seem that for most people this is not intuitive. I’m still getting people asking me how they can reduce the inappropriate use of e-mail in their organizations. So this time around I’m going to be more explicit. Here are ten situations when you should not use e-mail, even though you may be tempted [...]
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