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CCNA certified
Well, it took me long enough to get my ass in gear to do it – but I finally got around to taking the CCNA – and passed on the first attempt. I’d been planning on doing so for as far back as my last few...
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Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Greg Sowell had a great link this week in his blog — such a great link that I’m passing it along here. This is an impressive piece of work. The book is freely available for download and covers a wide...
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Fun with Hotlink Spam
I get a lot of hotlink spam to this site, and normally I don’t particularly care. But when Mercado Libre (an online sales forum similar to E-bay) started using the pictures of one of the switches from...
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RadioShack Electronics Learning Lab
Recently I was intrigued by a Hack A Day post regarding a low-cost development platform for their MSP430 line of microcontrollers. I’ve long wanted to toy with an Arduino, but with many other projects...
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BrainDeadUpgrade
Not much has happened project-wise in the last few weeks. Any free time I’ve had has gone to updating the wireless firmware to capture MAC addresses and pass them off to an Elgg plugin I’ve written....
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Quit Googling your Passwords
Recently, I noticed someone using one of the QuickSearch toolbars included in Firefox as a place to temporarily paste something while working on their desktop. Put it here temporarily? It makes sense,...
View ArticleBack in the dark ages
Recently (don’t ask me why, seriously) I had to migrate a physical Redhat 9 server to a virtualized platform (KVM). Yes, ideally one rebuilds the deprecated server anew, but due to time-constraints and...
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GNS3 and Gentoo – fixing QEMU networking
I was hoping to have time to further familiarize myself with IPv6 this weekend – but workplace emergencies, sleep, and a technical glitch slowed me down. Here’s the story of the technical glitch. GNS3...
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Stop the bleeding!
I’ve been quite annoyed recently with my video card, the “nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)“. A number of sites using Flash tend to bleed through Firefox or Chrome and into other tabs or even...
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Using ALSA plugins to stop scaring the cats.
The XMBCbuntu ZBOX server has really changed things in my house. It’s become hard to justify the $50+ cable bill seeing as how I only watch one television show when it originally airs (Breaking Bad)....
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