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The link to my site didn't automatically turn into a URL...I guess I'm not used to the 1995 posting abilities of Slashdot anymore! Here's the link: http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-run-dd-wrt-on-a-netgear-wndr3700/

Alternatively ... http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

Check out http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/ and the resulting project https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync

I've been a long time Red Dwarf fan, and while the show had highs and lows, from what I've read, this 3 parter should be great. I can't imagine what they'll find back on Earth, but I'm looking forward to finding out. If you haven't seen RD at all, start at 'The End', as I posted about just yesterday on my blog! http://www.fak3r.com/2009/04/09/red-dwarf-back-to-earth/ Anyone know how to watch the new episodes in the states?

I'm reading more and more about how ROR as a web app scales very well for large scale sites. For yself I'm learning how to do some advanced things with it, here is my HOWTO speed up ruby-on-rails with memcached:

http://fak3r.com/articles/2006/05/11/speed-up-ruby -on-rails-with-memcached

this is nice, but who would have thought the next Power...MacBook Pro would come out, instead of a 'consumer line' (read, NOT a ~2800$ laptop) MacBook to really get ppl switching.

For me I'm really starting to fall for (or lean hard towards) a Mac Mini Duo -- not only can you triple boot on it, there's now video of it doing 'fast OS switching', much as it does its 'fast user switching'.

Damn, this is getting fun.

What's going on here? With MS releasing Linux drivers for virtualization, Apple releasing code to run XP on Macs, and now Red Hat dropping the community they created it's like April fools all week!

My head hurts, time to go back to work and ignore all of this (right!)

After reading the article I don't know what to think; I've had Linux/OS X only at my house for years, with FreeBSD handling server duties. The iBook has always had this 'mistique' (sp?) that I couldn't describe, even when it runs Linux (which is about 80% of the time) -- but now this? I could have a Mac and run OS X, OS 9, Win XP, Ubuntu Linux and FreeBSD - all on the same machine. I just don't know how I feel about it, and I posted about it today hoping to stir some sense into it all. I know, in the grand scheme of life it's very, very, very minor, but this *was Apple* for crying out loud! What are they going to be in a year, in 5 years, in 10 years? I wonder.

I always encourage others to 'go on the offensive' and help polute phisher's databases with the awesome site: PhishFighting.com. Set a few tabs open to fill the phisher's database with useless Data, check back later and see the site is offline (likely from the attention garnered from all the bandwidth useage!

As bosses would say "It's a win-win!"

I just wrote about this topic, and it's something that has been ignored for far too long. http://fak3r.com/articles/2006/02/06/rating-the-ri sks The idea that people can come and go with USB drives on their keychain, a 60GIG drive in their iPod and unfethered Internet access is just an unlocked door. I'm all for privacy and freedom of speech, but a company HAS to be able to control it's DATA. IMO this is not happening anywhere in corp America.

Thanks for posting that, it's completely true; the more managers you get the more ideas they learned at the recent 'offsite manager meeting' with red tape aplenty. There's always more of the hated bizspeak and think it's a dead language. Check my writings (with examples) if it:

A dead language
More bad language

Unless you want to 'take this offline' to 'get your head around the 'tribal knowledge' - that's my fav...

Thanks for posting that, it's completely true; the more managers you get the more ideas they learned at the recent 'offsite manager meeting' with red tape aplenty. There's always more of the hated bizspeak and think it's a dead language. Check my writings (with examples) if it:

A dead language
More bad language

Unless you want to 'take this offline' to 'get your head around the 'tribal knowledge' - that's my fav...

I installed ReactOS from a dev build just before all of this hit and I was amazed. It's a great piece of software, and would offer some the ability to keep running Windows apps even if they didn't want to fall for the upgrade cycle that MS perpetuates. I want to try to install the new IE 7 Beta 2 and see if the new DoS attack against it works! Hehe

Really, I even wrote about it back then:

Futurama to return?
 
...and I see this trend as being a 'good thing (tm)' since it puts the 'voting power' back to the fan, and not to the flash in the pan audience who always needs a new reality show to latch on to. (can't wait until Arrested Development gets brought back, not that it's gone yet...but the clock ticks...)

Don't forget to watch the video, I have a link to it at the end of this article: This is a picture click on "watch it in action"

Funny, I talked about this yesterday; how could a graphic cause something so severe? This is a picture So now an email, IM, webclick or maybe even a popup could kick off a payload from a graphic? I thought only new things would attack windows rep, as if all the old stuff had been discovered, but now, there's more and more daily!

I had an article here about it, looking for anyone who has a blackberry to discuss:

Blackberry handhelds/servers vulnerable to attack

I had no idea the server backend was so...crummy. Why do geeks running FreeBSD at home have their passwords encrypted within MySQL, but big companies with million dollar products don't?

sloppy admining is everywhere unfortunately; it's seen as more of a nuisance rather than a safeguard. It's just pervasive, and even when new projects are brought onboard at my company, the password ends up being the username's name, or -blank-. I even wrote an article about my recent experience with this at work: Password deficiency in the workplace where the person implementing the software said, "Well, there's a password, it's not a really good password, and it's the same for everybody (hehe)" Yeah, she said that...and then laughed - during the presentation introducing the project to the team.

(yeah, even the timesheet software has the same password -FOR ALL USERS!-)

Agreed, it is a pointless trend, and I always enjoy hitting those links only to find the site ARE NOT XHTML 1.0 valid. No, mine is not, and I took that out of the footer, but that was the cached page, so it got overwritten. Still learning Typo, but I will take that out, and yes, it's misspelt - that's the way it came from Typo! Hey, maybe I'll sub my 1st patch to the project, thanks for pointing it out.

Oh, and yeah, the site that demos the Ruby On Rails framework with Typo is fak3r.com - thanks for helping me load test Lighttpd!

Completed in 0.01254 (79 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00618 (49%) | DB: 0.00146 (11%) [http://fak3r.com/articles/search?q=bsd%5D

Completed in 0.01254 (79 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00618 (49%) | DB: 0.00146 (11%) [http://fak3r.com/articles/search?q=bsd%5D

Before any bashes it as being a flash in the pan, watch the demo and see the framework that it provides and how natural it is to build webapps on top of. Truly an interesting language for the web.

Speaking of, why don't you check out my Ruby on Rails/Typo based blog, fak3r.com ;) be sure to try out that 'live search' (try 'bsd') for a taste of RoR/AJAX fun!

This is a problem, however at my work (and a few other gigs) I've seen Password deficiency in the workplace. Too many projects headed up by non-technical people that don't understand the importance of passwords. Obviously a unified solution (NFS or the like) would help tremdously, but for things like servers, getting to a root acount woudln't be a good use, so I think it'd need to be a biometrics (fingerprints) solution, with a "sudo like" funtionality on the server. ie- the user with this fingerprint can do these things, etc.