Archive for the 'Things To Do' Category

PXE Boot - Select Your Flavour

After messing around with TFTP in my previous post I decided to investigate further into what I can do with TFTP and PXE.  Browsing through the Debian mirror I found a tar called “netboot.tar.gz” so I decided to decompress it into my /tftpboot and see what happens.
I created a new diskless 2.6 vmware image and [...]

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Switching to Dvorak Simplified

This weekend Corvillus came for a visit and finally convinced me to make the switch over to Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.  After seeing him play his keyboard like a piano I needed to somehow achieve that level of data input efficiency. I have attempted this in the past however switching during a huge project is a horrible [...]

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How To Watch American Television in Canada

The other night I was asked by a friend how he could watch his favourite ABC show on line (think it was called “Fringe”).  I also recently had to configuring about ten phones behind a NAT so I had to find a quick way into the internal network.
This works on any platform and is a [...]

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Internet Radio DJ Software

Late last night I was inspired to write a super fun app that allows anyone to host their own ShoutCast radio station using a simple web interface.
I created a video to demonstrate its capabilities and I hope to have even more powerful features inculded soon.
Take a look at the video and send your feedback.

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DD-WRT Static Internal DNS

All I can say is WOW!
I just did a firmware upgrade on my Linksys WRT54GS v4 to the latest stable DD-WRT bin, and I must say their are two massive benefits to upgrading your firmware if you haven’t already.

Part 1. Static Internal DNS / DHCP Leases
We can now organize all of our clients nodes the [...]

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If You Haven’t Tried These, Try Them

I am very passionate about food and drink, specifically imported beer and unique cuts of different types of meats.  I once worked as a butcher at a local meat shop and loved every minutes of it, especially having a fellow employee mark 2 Lbs of Beef tenderloin as ground beef ($4 compared to $40).
Anyway I [...]

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Radio Free Geekhut - Open Mic Nights

Radio Free Geekhut is a fun little project I have been dabbling in for almost three years but now we’re actually getting some attention.  We actually have listeners!  Our premiere show this Thursday was a huge success with a total of 7 unique visitors at one time!  Hosted by hilarious Matt Loeb and Mike Stevens, [...]

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Putting Sphider to the Test

I had an extra computer laying around and wanted to use it for something, so I decided to test out the search engine / indexing power of Shpider.  I highly doubt I will ever use this for anything but it should be a fun experiment.
Tonight I am going to begin indexing digg.com using Sphider php [...]

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Get a Free PC the Green Way

Do you know someone who upgrades their home / office PC’s far too frequently because apparently their systems are no longer “compatible” or have become “too slow”? - yeah I do too.
The problem is that there is a HUGE misconception with Radio Shack dads who get suckered into buying the latest piece of shit Acer [...]

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