So I just changed ISPs from Time Warner to Verizon and all I can say is “wow this router is a dog.” It’s probably the worst piece of junk I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen routers come from the Soviet Union with better software on them. The interface is a cludge, you’re constantly forced to click “yes I’m really sure I want to do xyz” constantly, and the clicky bits aren’t actually attached to anything!
If you’re like me and your banging your head against a wall trying to get port forwarding working… keep banging. I’ve managed to get port 22 to forward to a linux box but that’s about it.
Here’s a screen cast, and here’s a post about it.
Update:
Here’s a great post on bridging the Westell 9100EM
I’d love to hear if you’ve had more luck.
Backwoods Home Magazine is dedicated to the promotion of a more self-reliant living style. Everything from the ammo shortage to how to buy a used mobile home.
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July 13, 2009 – 12:14 pm
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By admin
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Posted in D.I.Y.
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Purists wouldn’t call this full-screen but it’s close enough. In System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts Use the plus sign (+) to create a new shortcut. Use the drop down, labeled Application, to assign our new shortcut to the Terminal. Menu Title will be “Zoom” no quotes. Use any keyboard shortcut you’d like, I prefer command+f. …
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A great tutorial can be found here.
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$result = `ls -l $file 2>&1`;
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Synergy is an application that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse between several different computers (Windows, Linux, and OS X). Unfortunately, running synergy in the background on a mac doesn’t work so well. Here’s one of the work-arounds I’ve found on the Internet. This involves running the app through launchctl a replacement for …
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June 7, 2009 – 3:51 pm
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By admin
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Posted in Apple
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sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf init
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Once in a while there’s a song in the Stereo gum mp3 feed that I actually want to keep. Here’s how I do it. Select the podcasts you wish to convert to normal audio files. Right click and select “Convert ID3 tags”. Change the ID3 tags to version 1.0 Drag the podcast tracks out to …
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Every once in a while the normal recursive bash command doesn’t work and I resort to using find with xargs. Of course xargs hates whitespace and I often find myself working with files created by others. xargs chokes on whitespace thinking it’s an indication of a new file. The solution is to get find to …
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So far this has started to work on the latest (2.2) firmware for the iPhone. You need to edit the file /User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist on the device -> I found it best to sftp in to the phone, make a backup, and edit the file using Apple’s Property List Editor. Copy the file back to /User/Library/Preferences/ . …
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