My network gets its addresses from dnsmasq running on the Kamikaze 8.09 release of OpenWRT. This operating system uses an unusual system for configuration, and getting dnsmasq set up for network booting took a little bit of effort. So I’m documenting it here, for either anybody else who’s stuck on it, or for when I […]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Ack, can’t quite believe it’s been five months since the last time I futzed with storage. After some minor teething problems, the DNS-323 has been humming along very happily. I had a lot of problems installing new firmware (mostly because I didn’t feel inclined to attach a serial console) so ended up building a debian […]
Over the last few months I’ve been getting increasingly worried about storage of my digital photos. Slides occupy my very professional filing system (I recently expanded into a second shoebox!), and seem fairly well protected of everything short of a housefire. But photos from both of my digital bodies were just being sucked out onto […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
A little while ago I finally bit the bullet and reflashed my aging first-generation WRT-54G with the shiny new Kamikaze release of OpenWRT. I’ve been a little indifferent about the upgrade from the older Whiterussian series, and fairly annoyed by the fact that my router no longer seems to want to redial the PPPoE connection […]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
(with thanks to the semi-anonymous comment on my last post for pointing me more firmly at the evdev subsystem) The MX Air mouse presents two separate HID devices. I’d noticed this before, but hadn’t worked out the significance until this afternoon when I had a tentative first stab at getting the mouse working with the […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Mini review : So a few weeks ago I went and dropped $160 on a Logitech MX Air mouse. I’ve been justifying this fairly outrageous price by telling myself it would be a worthwhile addition to my desktop rig, which is looking more and more like a media centre every day. Sure, it actually is […]