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Did you know squid also has an adblocking feature in it. This way you don't need to setup client side blocking. The adblocking is actually not too bad only missing once in awhile and ive yet to NOTICE any incorrect blocking.

Adzapper does a fairly nice job. Setup a little cron script and it automaticly updates. Also if you have something like a WRT54GL or any advanced routing device you can setup transparent port 80 forwarding too.

This script works perfect on my WRT54GL running DD-WRT v23 sp2

Proxy Script
Simple enough ... effective and does not require any end user setup. Thus "transparent"

It all depends on the amount of connections you cram through that router. I have a 6mbit/784kbit Cable line and if im running more then 2000 connections (which the WRT54GL does just fine) then everything goes to a halt. The overhead of all those connections just consumes the line. If you limit the amount of open connections in your torrent program you'll notice the QoS works quite well even for voip.

Bittorrent and Limewire have to be the worst for consuming the entire line with it's overhead. If you don't limit those down (usually ~ 250 connections max) and limit the upload lots lots (ie I send at ~ 70k/s I usually limit my torrents to ~ 20k/s) I notice almost nothing from those torrents.

My girlfriend on the other hand has 15mbit fibre in her home and her WRT54GS v5 (with 2mb/12mb) can't handle 14mbit of bandwidth (up and down) just constantly reboots. For most residental lines tho the trick is all in the open UDP/TCP connections. (I know UDP isn't technically a connection but UDP shows up as a open connection to the router.

If you SSH/Telnet into the router and "type" this command.
sed -n 's%.* src=\(192.168.[0-9.]*\).*%\1%p' /proc/net/ip_conntrack | sort | uniq -c
It will show you the active amount of connections. You should keep the total under ~ 1500 ... if your pushing that many connections you should maybe consider getting a bigger internet package as most residental lines won't handle it. Esp PPPoE DSL ... throwing another layer (PPP) just makes things worse.

DD-WRT's QoS is pretty good you just need to play with some of the numbers. If you have them too low then your losing out on speed. If you keep them too high then you'll notice things slowing down. Convienently I made a simple QoS startup guide to kinda get you started. This Page.

Im pretty good with these routers (having setup many many for people) any little questions I could prolly help out.

You can mount a satellite dish anywhere. I even mounted a dish on my tree when I was unable to get LOS (Line of Sight) to 110/119w. Using Dish Networks bandstacked setup allows you to run ~200ft of satellite cable. Mind you most legacy satellite setups will be ~ 100' or so but you could stoosh that dish anywhere. The only time I see any negitive effects is when it's SUPER windy outside. Even then the quality meter waves, but I don't see interuption of my service.

For anyone intrested I got a nifty little page about my setup. Here

:D

I actually have a proper tunnel setup on my network for IPv6 and ipv6.google.com brings me to a google front page and the logo does a little dance when you first see the page. Other then that it seems to be the exact same thing as the IPv4 version. But with a fancy dancing logo.

People without IPv6 probably won't get onto that link but unlike most people I have IPv6 which right now has about 2 uses.

1. Bragging Rights
2. IRC

Other then that I found that IPv6 is almost completely useless. It's nice to have because of it's open nature (ie you can set the rdns servers on most v6 IP's) and it's really easy to setup. Plug in a IPv6 enabled OS into my network and it will have a v6 IP in minutes.

And as asked somewhere around here ... here is your picture of the IPv6 google haha ... The logo does a little dance and it does not have any country specific information. (ie im canadian so I always get stuck with "Google Canada" but in this case I now get a fancy logo and IPv6
IPv6 Google

And for our IPv6 overlords ...

IPv6 Google - In IPv6

I actually have a proper tunnel setup on my network for IPv6 and ipv6.google.com brings me to a google front page and the logo does a little dance when you first see the page. Other then that it seems to be the exact same thing as the IPv4 version. But with a fancy dancing logo.

People without IPv6 probably won't get onto that link but unlike most people I have IPv6 which right now has about 2 uses.

1. Bragging Rights
2. IRC

Other then that I found that IPv6 is almost completely useless. It's nice to have because of it's open nature (ie you can set the rdns servers on most v6 IP's) and it's really easy to setup. Plug in a IPv6 enabled OS into my network and it will have a v6 IP in minutes.

And as asked somewhere around here ... here is your picture of the IPv6 google haha ... The logo does a little dance and it does not have any country specific information. (ie im canadian so I always get stuck with "Google Canada" but in this case I now get a fancy logo and IPv6
IPv6 Google

And for our IPv6 overlords ...

IPv6 Google - In IPv6

This my friend is easy ... to change your CD key in Windows XP to a SP2 capable key.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 v2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158

Serial:
s/n:7MD2F-FYJX4-D4R2B-3M7W2-DC9PD
s/n:WGQMG-3622W-4CPWB-YJP6W-RDWGJ

Microsoft Windows XP Profesional SP2 Corporate Edition

Serial:
yq7xw-qpt6c-233qf-rrxc7-vf7ty
x4ptj-6wp7j-bfvcy-wydjt-dmddk
3px6y-7htr8-4pvpq-pyfgk-grk3p


I would assume your running one of those 2 editions.
http://www.solosoft.org/~chris/cdkey.vbs
Download this and put it into your root of C ... then goto run and type "cmd" then type cd \ then simply type cdkey (cdkey)
Without the brackets of course

If it works you should see nothing ... then simply download The Full copy of SP2

It should work like a dream :D activation issues getting you down then you can simply google up on how to remove the activations (it's as easy as a file replacement and a registry entry. Now you find your windows updates don't work ... that's as easy as replacing ONE file ... google the rest up or if you want i'll tell you how to do both.

Windowmaker looked amazing no matter how you set it up. Nothing is bad about simple and working. Why do people need all these colours and flash bang things. I setup my own theme in windowmaker and it was solid black ... with white text.

Ive saved every screenshot ive ever made and put it on my gallery (you can see as my skills progressed how customized my desktop got). Most of them are windowmaker but some of them are other desktops I tried out over the years (and always made it back to windowmaker). Once you learn how to use it being able to dock ANY app with a right click on that minimize button was extreamly handy. I would just whizz by everything on that window manager.

This Snapshot was one of my later ones and as you can see wmaker looks pretty darn slick. I used nautilus and made the "desktop" window take the entire screen and "always on bottom" so it keept outa my way. Having desktop icons is kinda usefull and I found it extreamly handy. (why waste all that space on your screen somthing mas well be happening there).

Although my new desktop has a ATI AIW card and I want to use it for TV if I didn't have such a media pointed setup ... I would prolly still be using it today.

Why not ... let the ole P3 450MHz burn

152 snapshots for your enjoyment

Windowmaker looked amazing no matter how you set it up. Nothing is bad about simple and working. Why do people need all these colours and flash bang things. I setup my own theme in windowmaker and it was solid black ... with white text.

Ive saved every screenshot ive ever made and put it on my gallery (you can see as my skills progressed how customized my desktop got). Most of them are windowmaker but some of them are other desktops I tried out over the years (and always made it back to windowmaker). Once you learn how to use it being able to dock ANY app with a right click on that minimize button was extreamly handy. I would just whizz by everything on that window manager.

This Snapshot was one of my later ones and as you can see wmaker looks pretty darn slick. I used nautilus and made the "desktop" window take the entire screen and "always on bottom" so it keept outa my way. Having desktop icons is kinda usefull and I found it extreamly handy. (why waste all that space on your screen somthing mas well be happening there).

Although my new desktop has a ATI AIW card and I want to use it for TV if I didn't have such a media pointed setup ... I would prolly still be using it today.

Why not ... let the ole P3 450MHz burn

152 snapshots for your enjoyment

Windowmaker looked amazing no matter how you set it up. Nothing is bad about simple and working. Why do people need all these colours and flash bang things. I setup my own theme in windowmaker and it was solid black ... with white text.

Ive saved every screenshot ive ever made and put it on my gallery (you can see as my skills progressed how customized my desktop got). Most of them are windowmaker but some of them are other desktops I tried out over the years (and always made it back to windowmaker). Once you learn how to use it being able to dock ANY app with a right click on that minimize button was extreamly handy. I would just whizz by everything on that window manager.

This Snapshot was one of my later ones and as you can see wmaker looks pretty darn slick. I used nautilus and made the "desktop" window take the entire screen and "always on bottom" so it keept outa my way. Having desktop icons is kinda usefull and I found it extreamly handy. (why waste all that space on your screen somthing mas well be happening there).

Although my new desktop has a ATI AIW card and I want to use it for TV if I didn't have such a media pointed setup ... I would prolly still be using it today.

Why not ... let the ole P3 450MHz burn

152 snapshots for your enjoyment

I wrote up a little thing on setting up IPv6 using Hurricane Electrics Tunnel broker. It uses RADVD and a little script I assmbled up, works like a charm.

Here is the page on using a WRT and DD-WRT for IPv6

Of course if I wasn't so lazy I would have a completed guide on setting that up without Samba ... you can of course simply take the script and put it in the nvram (minus the comments of course) and it works just the same. Ive been using it on a tunnel now for a few months and have had 0 problems. All operating systems on my network just automaticly work with the 6bone. In Windows XP just type "ipv6 install" and it installs the v6 stuff (ping6, tracert6 etc etc) and in linux "modprobe ipv6" should do the trick. If you have a wrt and dd-wrt or one of the linux versions you should look into it. Once it's setup on the router it's easy as one command to setup on your clients. He.net lets you set the reverse DNS too which is kinda cool for IRC (EFnet and freenode support IPv6 and tons more) even my own IRC network and website now support IPv6. Is it usefull ? Hell no ... but knowing that im one step ahead of most of the world is kinda nice.

btw if your intrested IRC to solosoft.org port 6667 and it should connect using IPv6 (#Solosoft if you want to chat I guess im guk :)) or visit http://solosoft.org to see IPv6ness in use (the website WILL not work if you don't have IPv6 working). It's more or less somthing fun to do and somthing a little neat to setup. The thing that gets me the most is that it's a simple residental router doing what a very expensive router does.

I wrote up a little thing on setting up IPv6 using Hurricane Electrics Tunnel broker. It uses RADVD and a little script I assmbled up, works like a charm.

Here is the page on using a WRT and DD-WRT for IPv6

Of course if I wasn't so lazy I would have a completed guide on setting that up without Samba ... you can of course simply take the script and put it in the nvram (minus the comments of course) and it works just the same. Ive been using it on a tunnel now for a few months and have had 0 problems. All operating systems on my network just automaticly work with the 6bone. In Windows XP just type "ipv6 install" and it installs the v6 stuff (ping6, tracert6 etc etc) and in linux "modprobe ipv6" should do the trick. If you have a wrt and dd-wrt or one of the linux versions you should look into it. Once it's setup on the router it's easy as one command to setup on your clients. He.net lets you set the reverse DNS too which is kinda cool for IRC (EFnet and freenode support IPv6 and tons more) even my own IRC network and website now support IPv6. Is it usefull ? Hell no ... but knowing that im one step ahead of most of the world is kinda nice.

btw if your intrested IRC to solosoft.org port 6667 and it should connect using IPv6 (#Solosoft if you want to chat I guess im guk :)) or visit http://solosoft.org to see IPv6ness in use (the website WILL not work if you don't have IPv6 working). It's more or less somthing fun to do and somthing a little neat to setup. The thing that gets me the most is that it's a simple residental router doing what a very expensive router does.

I used a Fireplace fan

I got it for free and put a 120v dimmer switch on it (to control the speed of the fan). That kept my Dual Pentium Pro 200Mhz (oc 233MHz) running cool. (by cool I mean ~ 70c). I could for some reason NEVER get that CPU under 60c no matter what I put on it.

Since then ive upgraded to a Dual 450MHz and the heat issues have dissapeared. Don't be afraid to hack up your case a little for cooling. You can put big 120mm fans all over the place on there and not rack up the noise (it's the little fans which make all the annoying noise).

Are you actually using all 700MHz ... you know it won't kill you to underclock that CPU a little bit in the sake of heat and noise. Also (not 100% sure) but does linux have a speedfan utility because I noticed when fixing a P3 700MHz that I could slow the fan speed to 50% which dropped the noise like big time. It didn't even heat up very much.

Don't be shy mess around you'll figure somthing out ... so what the PC case is hacked to shit ... it still works doesn't it ?

:) good luck with your case

I used a Fireplace fan

I got it for free and put a 120v dimmer switch on it (to control the speed of the fan). That kept my Dual Pentium Pro 200Mhz (oc 233MHz) running cool. (by cool I mean ~ 70c). I could for some reason NEVER get that CPU under 60c no matter what I put on it.

Since then ive upgraded to a Dual 450MHz and the heat issues have dissapeared. Don't be afraid to hack up your case a little for cooling. You can put big 120mm fans all over the place on there and not rack up the noise (it's the little fans which make all the annoying noise).

Are you actually using all 700MHz ... you know it won't kill you to underclock that CPU a little bit in the sake of heat and noise. Also (not 100% sure) but does linux have a speedfan utility because I noticed when fixing a P3 700MHz that I could slow the fan speed to 50% which dropped the noise like big time. It didn't even heat up very much.

Don't be shy mess around you'll figure somthing out ... so what the PC case is hacked to shit ... it still works doesn't it ?

:) good luck with your case

My PPro is still running fine. I overclocked it to 233MHz and is running ~ 900 bogomips total with the 2 chips. I had to install a 120v 200CFM Fireplace Fan to keep it from overheating. It's still going :). Got a 10gb and a 6gb RAID-0 for the HDD's (backed up weekly) with 2 6gb spares on site waiting for it to fail.

It runs DNS,SSH,IRCD,HTTP,FTP and some more.
Sure it's a little slow at times but it seems to keep up to what I need it to do (connect to the internet and host shit) and I don't plan on replacing it untill it completely dies. Ive put 2 5000RPM Duron fans on the chips to keep it cool and it has a USB card to plug into my UPS. It also somehow manages to serve a few thousand Webhits a month too. :) Long live shitty HW

My PPro is still running fine. I overclocked it to 233MHz and is running ~ 900 bogomips total with the 2 chips. I had to install a 120v 200CFM Fireplace Fan to keep it from overheating. It's still going :). Got a 10gb and a 6gb RAID-0 for the HDD's (backed up weekly) with 2 6gb spares on site waiting for it to fail.

It runs DNS,SSH,IRCD,HTTP,FTP and some more.
Sure it's a little slow at times but it seems to keep up to what I need it to do (connect to the internet and host shit) and I don't plan on replacing it untill it completely dies. Ive put 2 5000RPM Duron fans on the chips to keep it cool and it has a USB card to plug into my UPS. It also somehow manages to serve a few thousand Webhits a month too. :) Long live shitty HW

My PPro is still running fine. I overclocked it to 233MHz and is running ~ 900 bogomips total with the 2 chips. I had to install a 120v 200CFM Fireplace Fan to keep it from overheating. It's still going :). Got a 10gb and a 6gb RAID-0 for the HDD's (backed up weekly) with 2 6gb spares on site waiting for it to fail.

It runs DNS,SSH,IRCD,HTTP,FTP and some more.
Sure it's a little slow at times but it seems to keep up to what I need it to do (connect to the internet and host shit) and I don't plan on replacing it untill it completely dies. Ive put 2 5000RPM Duron fans on the chips to keep it cool and it has a USB card to plug into my UPS. It also somehow manages to serve a few thousand Webhits a month too. :) Long live shitty HW

My PPro is still running fine. I overclocked it to 233MHz and is running ~ 900 bogomips total with the 2 chips. I had to install a 120v 200CFM Fireplace Fan to keep it from overheating. It's still going :). Got a 10gb and a 6gb RAID-0 for the HDD's (backed up weekly) with 2 6gb spares on site waiting for it to fail.

It runs DNS,SSH,IRCD,HTTP,FTP and some more.
Sure it's a little slow at times but it seems to keep up to what I need it to do (connect to the internet and host shit) and I don't plan on replacing it untill it completely dies. Ive put 2 5000RPM Duron fans on the chips to keep it cool and it has a USB card to plug into my UPS. It also somehow manages to serve a few thousand Webhits a month too. :) Long live shitty HW

Really ?
I have about 2 torrents constant on this computer and sometimes emule or bearshare, my sister is always on limewire and my moms always on torrents too and no problems. Even my ipv6 is stable and never disconnects. Hmm ... wonder why your router is so sick, oh did you forward the right ports. I believe DD-WRT doesn't enable upnp by default thus most of your torrents prolly had no outside access.

Maybe some more information and I would be glad to give you a hand with that.

If you would spend a couple of extra minutes fucking around with DD-WRT you would notice that it's alot better then the stock firmware. It's capable of 2x as much and ive never had connection issues even when running the beta. Like I said ... gimmie some more information and i'll see what I can do to help you ...You Could Email me too and we could figure this out

Oh yeah ? How is it so shitty ?

I don't mind people bashing things but if your going to bash things please have somthing to back it up. By Semi-Heavy load what do you exactly mean ?
You do know there are known issues with the router such as overclocking it 16MHz (which the newer stock linksys firmware does) fixes up tons of issues.

~ # sed -n 's%.* src=\(192.168.[0-9.]*\).*%\1%p' /proc/net/ip_conntrack | sort | uniq -c
4 192.168.1.1
3 192.168.1.100
68 192.168.1.101
686 192.168.1.102
6 192.168.1.103
1 192.168.100.1

My router is handling plenty of open connections no problem and I have QoS enabled to keep everything else snappy. If I so choosed I could go and play a game of Starcraft right now with 0 lag yet im downloading 2 torrents at 100k/s each.

One thing I did was turn down the connection timeouts to about 900 seconds instead of the really high value that DD-WRT defaults too. Before I did this my machines would not drop connections quick enough and the router would literally saturate it's self with 4000 open connections.

I also made a QoS page that'll help you setup QoS on your network. It really smooths things out if it's setup correctly. Letting you keep your P2P apps open and still be able to do things like stream music and play games online.

I overclocked my router 39MHz (WRT54Gs v4) and it seems to be running amazingly quick with little downside. Although it does run slightly warmer my BEFSR41 v3 would run hotter then this is running. That doesn't include my 100mW boost on my wireless power.

I don't mind people bashing things but atleast backup your statement on why you couldn't get it to work. Then people can help you out ... maybe it's a simple command you did ... or somthing you forgot to do.

If your WRT is running DD-WRT v23 you can run a 4-6 tunnel through the router and run RADVD on it to give your clients IPv6 address's.

Here is a IPv6 Install Guide for DD-WRT and a WRT54Gs

I would love some more people to test out my little config and tell me if there is anything they do not understand in it. It's very straight forward and uses SMB for people who have a v4 Router (not enough room for JFFS). Of course you could simply move a conf to your /jffs/ file system.
As Long as your running Linux (with ipv6 enabled) and Windows XP (run "ipv6 install") once the router is setup and running your clients get IP's automagicly. (or any ipv6 enabled OS for that matter)

Thanks :)

Honestly ... you should spend a little time and get QoS running. It is so awsome once it's setup right. It lets you milk every cent of your line that's possible while still keeping it speedy. Imagine this ... your uploading 4 images to the client, talking on the phone, and if you felt like it you could bust out some Quake or somthing and still be snappy. Of course you do kinda lose out on the sense that your pictures might send a little bit slower. But your http and all other "important" services are still snappy and quick.

Check it out really ... you'll be quite impressed. Although I only use it on my little WRT54Gs running DD-WRT. I made a small simple tutorial on how to get it running (if anyone wants to comment please do). Im not really sure if it's 100% setup right but it seems to work well, heck tho anything to make somthing more efficient for sure I would be intrested in.

My WRT QoS Setup

naw naw ... this is how you pirate XP. If your still like me and find XP to be a waste of CD's (and still run devils own) you can simply Click here and download the entire SP2. Then all you do if it bitches about your key is get This VBS File. Once you got the VBS file then copy it to the root of your C drive then go

Start -> Run -> type "command"
It should open up a nice command window then type "cd \" (not / this is not unix :)

Simply type "cdkey YQ7XW-QPT6C-233QF-RRXC7-VF7TY"

Now install your SP2 happily without any fuss or muss. (it only works on the Volume Licensing versions of Windows XP (Devils0wn) that I know of.

If those keys don't work then here are some more
7MD2F-FYJX4-D4R2B-3M7W2-DC9PD
WGQMG-3622W-4CPWB-YJP6W-RDWGJ
BH9Y3-B7GTR-FD86G-Y23M2-4DT88
DKGV3-PH66D-Y72B6-8XDXB-R3QFB
3G874-7427P-YB4PW-D3RCB-GKJHY

Now that's how you get SP2 on a Windows XP Devils 0wn :)

Yeah nowhere to go eh aparently quite a bit of people use ipv6 although not as much as ipv4 enough to put a dent. For somthing not even finished yet I would think there is enough traffic for it.

Most of the brokers died when they killed the 3ffe:: address space. If you notice they all still run in production space.

Windows with a patch ?

To enable ipv6 on a Windows XP machine goto run and type "ipv6 install" wait a few minutes and boom. If you got somthing like radvd running it will fetch the info it needs and assign the address.

Cause im running ipv6 on my WRT54Gs v4 running radvd and all my windows machines picked it up right away after typing that command. I think Windows 2000 needs a patch to get it to work but im sure by the time ipv6 becomes standard Windows 2000 will be unsupported.

Please don't be spitting out shit ... thanks

I honestly doubt that alot of the big high end router manufacturers will make alot of money off the switches. Most high end routers are alot of software and some of them even run Linux. And the WRT54G(s)(l) is a consumer grade router. The big boys already can support it and probably do.

It's the ISP's that it's going to kill. For a "true" ipv6 connection they would have to make sure there consumers are using a fully ipv6 compatable operating system, have a fully compatable cable / dsl modem (im not sure if most of the current ones are compatable but im pretty sure there not). ipv6 doesn't need a router so all the money Joe Servicepack spent on his nice "D-Link" router or his 2.99 bargin bin special ... it's not all bad it could switch his network. The consumer really doesn't pay anything it's the people "behind the scenes". There is no "ipv6" button on most ISP equiptment so there not going to go "oh lets press the button" then boom the net is on ipv6. If it where that easy im sure it would be done by now.

Anywho, im not in a big rush NAT is a hack but it seems to work alright. You really need to tweak some things to work behind it (like FTP) but other then that for most end users they really don't care. Plus it keeps securing a network easy being that there is only one device to take care of for many computers.

I have stepped into the 6bone world and I think it's really cool. Being able to setup RDNS and have 18 quintillion IP's to my name. Of course once the ISP's get to it im sure it won't be as fun, but still im sure going "well your house only gets 10 IP's or somthing of the such won't be taken lightly considering a /64 is the smallest chunk you can route (18 quintillion IP's) and the compeition will simply outdo them. I can't wait till I get to press the button on my linksys router to "AP" and not router :) im sure alot in here are too.

If your intrested in ipv6 and have a WRT I made a nifty little site on configuring it. Here is the link it deals with setting up your WRT with radvd to broadcast ipv6 all over your network. Few things to edit ... sign up to Hurricane Electrics Tunnel broker and set it to run on starting then enable ipv6 on your clients and bam ... your on the 6bone. The best thing is it's free.

I even happen to setup my website on ipv6 too so if you have ipv6 This should show you

I honestly doubt that alot of the big high end router manufacturers will make alot of money off the switches. Most high end routers are alot of software and some of them even run Linux. And the WRT54G(s)(l) is a consumer grade router. The big boys already can support it and probably do.

It's the ISP's that it's going to kill. For a "true" ipv6 connection they would have to make sure there consumers are using a fully ipv6 compatable operating system, have a fully compatable cable / dsl modem (im not sure if most of the current ones are compatable but im pretty sure there not). ipv6 doesn't need a router so all the money Joe Servicepack spent on his nice "D-Link" router or his 2.99 bargin bin special ... it's not all bad it could switch his network. The consumer really doesn't pay anything it's the people "behind the scenes". There is no "ipv6" button on most ISP equiptment so there not going to go "oh lets press the button" then boom the net is on ipv6. If it where that easy im sure it would be done by now.

Anywho, im not in a big rush NAT is a hack but it seems to work alright. You really need to tweak some things to work behind it (like FTP) but other then that for most end users they really don't care. Plus it keeps securing a network easy being that there is only one device to take care of for many computers.

I have stepped into the 6bone world and I think it's really cool. Being able to setup RDNS and have 18 quintillion IP's to my name. Of course once the ISP's get to it im sure it won't be as fun, but still im sure going "well your house only gets 10 IP's or somthing of the such won't be taken lightly considering a /64 is the smallest chunk you can route (18 quintillion IP's) and the compeition will simply outdo them. I can't wait till I get to press the button on my linksys router to "AP" and not router :) im sure alot in here are too.

If your intrested in ipv6 and have a WRT I made a nifty little site on configuring it. Here is the link it deals with setting up your WRT with radvd to broadcast ipv6 all over your network. Few things to edit ... sign up to Hurricane Electrics Tunnel broker and set it to run on starting then enable ipv6 on your clients and bam ... your on the 6bone. The best thing is it's free.

I even happen to setup my website on ipv6 too so if you have ipv6 This should show you

Failing ... yes ... bricking no ... there are many ways to debrick your router including a few cool ways through software and hardware to debrick it. Reading the linked website below has some ideas to fix a briked router. Making it almost impossible to "break" your current router. I have a WRT54Gs v4 and pressing the Cisco button caused it to open up a TFTP mode.

I prefer the dd-wrt firmware because it has the nice web based frontend plus the ablitity like OpenWRT to install extra software and do intresting things.

Here is an Install Page for the router and once you get it going you can really see what it does. It's awsome. You can use the routers web based frontend without even really having to see the backend but it's still there for those who like to tinker.

Install the v23 beta then Head over here to get ipv6 working this is cool cause it works with a popular free ipv6 tunneling provider. It's so easy to get running and once it's up on the router the clients are easy as pie to setup. "modprobe ipv6" (linux) or "ipv6 install" (windows XP) to get it fired up. He.net gives you 18 quintillion IP's so that should be satisfactory for your small to big LAN.

:) but yeah any other little questions just ask and im sure I can help

Solosoft

You guys have no clue how cool ipv6 is eh. I recently got a Linksys WRT54Gs (v4) and installed a opensource firmware dd-wrt. Reading up I found out it supports ipv6 -> ipv4. I installed it and got it all working going "oh shit the clients are going to be hard to setup".

Windows: ipv6 install
Linux: modprobe ipv6
Boom ... done ... all my windows and linux machines in the house now have there OWN ipv6 address and it automaticly works and everything. It's crazy plus my tunnel provider he.net gave me 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 Quintillion) IP's to mess around with. Im sorry but I think it's frickin cool. You have to change providers fine ... you hop on there network ... boom you get a brand new ipv6 address.

Got a WRT54Gs and feel like connecting to the 6bone ... read up on my little "howto" @ http://www.solosoft.org/projects/ipv6

It's pretty cool

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

I got my Dual Pentium Pro running my webserver / Mailserver / DNS server / FTP server / SSH server / pop3 and imap / an IRCD / and a ton of other stuff. It also downloads all my torrents (usually 3 at a time constantly). It runs a bot which logs a IRC channel and computes the stats in the morning. It captures SNMP data from my cable modem and router and prolly a ton of other little things which I won't bother to mention.

My pentium pro machine has to be the hardest working machine in my house. Averaging a 1.0 - 2.0 load, the heat that comes out of this thing is just amazing tho. What I did to combat that is pickup some cheap Vantec Duron Fans/Heatsinks (since you can't buy just the fan) and toss the heatsinks and put the fans on the chip. I find that the PPRo will melt a stock Pentium (classic) fan in a matter of weeks. The cool thing about the ppro is that it will shut off it's chip if it overheats. I had one of those laser temp things and from what the heatsink was showing was ~ 116c before it totally crashed and died. Of course a simple reboot and a fan solved this.

Useless Services that machine runs

My shitty website
IRC Stats
Cable Modem Information
Cable Modem SNMP
Router SNMP
Gallery
A Broken Weather Module
Web Statistics

Im still trying to find more things to fetch info off of and do. I have a 56k External USR Modem connected to it so my next project will probably be to get 123-4567@fax.solosoft.org to fax an email to a phone number.

Go ahead ... giver a workout

You know what all this sidebar stuff reminds me of, my days using Windowmaker on linux debian. When I used linux on my desktop I used windowmaker because of the nifty dockbar. It told me everything from how much my CPU is being used to who's on what port on my computer.

Here is one out of 100 some snapshots ive taken out of linux. I have all my snapshots from my first time using linux to now. I find it kind of intresting on how I started off with a stock desktop to how customized and modified my desktop really got.

If your intrested or just want to watch my 2x 200MHz PPRo melt you can check them all out at Here.

Oh well atleast I know when all the longhorn kiddies go "look at my l337z0r sidebar" I can go "well in 1998 I had a sidebar too" :)

Chris

You know what all this sidebar stuff reminds me of, my days using Windowmaker on linux debian. When I used linux on my desktop I used windowmaker because of the nifty dockbar. It told me everything from how much my CPU is being used to who's on what port on my computer.

Here is one out of 100 some snapshots ive taken out of linux. I have all my snapshots from my first time using linux to now. I find it kind of intresting on how I started off with a stock desktop to how customized and modified my desktop really got.

If your intrested or just want to watch my 2x 200MHz PPRo melt you can check them all out at Here.

Oh well atleast I know when all the longhorn kiddies go "look at my l337z0r sidebar" I can go "well in 1998 I had a sidebar too" :)

Chris

You know what all this sidebar stuff reminds me of, my days using Windowmaker on linux debian. When I used linux on my desktop I used windowmaker because of the nifty dockbar. It told me everything from how much my CPU is being used to who's on what port on my computer.

Here is one out of 100 some snapshots ive taken out of linux. I have all my snapshots from my first time using linux to now. I find it kind of intresting on how I started off with a stock desktop to how customized and modified my desktop really got.

If your intrested or just want to watch my 2x 200MHz PPRo melt you can check them all out at Here.

Oh well atleast I know when all the longhorn kiddies go "look at my l337z0r sidebar" I can go "well in 1998 I had a sidebar too" :)

Chris

Noper, I have the same card sitting beside me. Well the box anywho, Linux only supported 1/2 of the card (literally (1 166MHz chip and 1 32mb RAM Module))and Windows XP and 98 support 100% of the card. If you flash the card it would work on a Mac also. Sadly tho that is not the last card from 3Dfx.

The Voodoo 5 6000 is the last production card according to this page. The problem with these voodoos tho, they where too frickin expensive to fight with nvidia's GeForce. Oh well, nice to know there is still someone with a voodoo card.

I own a Canopus 3Dfx Voodoo 1 (6mb RAM) and a 3Dfx Voodoo 5 5500

Oh ? I got OS X working on my Athlon64 3000+ (winchester)

Here is a screenshot. Where do you see SSE3 ? Oviously I used vmware but I got it running took that snapshot then deleted it. Not worth my time considering it supports very little of my hardware.

I am not really a big fan of the pentium pro. It is an amazing chip but man it runs hot.

I have a Dual Pentium Pro sitting beside my desk and this thing puts off more heat then my Athlon64 3000+. I had to take off the stock fans (because they melted) and put on 2 Vantec 5000RPM duron fans. Now the thing is extreamly noisey and hot :( . The Pentium Pro is an awsome chip just it runs too frickin hot. (btw, if you stop the fans with your finger and put a laser sensor on the heatsink, within 5 seconds it will hit 80c. Once it hits a little over 80c the chip crashes. Im not sure if it's a hardware crash (because of the heat) or the chip shuts it's self off. If you know anything more about this chip please tell :).

I am not really a big fan of the pentium pro. It is an amazing chip but man it runs hot.

I have a Dual Pentium Pro sitting beside my desk and this thing puts off more heat then my Athlon64 3000+. I had to take off the stock fans (because they melted) and put on 2 Vantec 5000RPM duron fans. Now the thing is extreamly noisey and hot :( . The Pentium Pro is an awsome chip just it runs too frickin hot. (btw, if you stop the fans with your finger and put a laser sensor on the heatsink, within 5 seconds it will hit 80c. Once it hits a little over 80c the chip crashes. Im not sure if it's a hardware crash (because of the heat) or the chip shuts it's self off. If you know anything more about this chip please tell :).

Wow ... im almost impressed with it.

My first impressions of it was not too good. I goto install it and it forces me to validate my XP install. For some stupid reason it passed :/. Anywho ... it installs like a Service Pack (which pretty much what it is) and asks you to reboot.

Once it's loaded the interface is fucked.

Screenshot

I don't like the point that you can not have your file menu on the very top of the screen. Oviously the graphics are not done because the little box beside those tabs makes a new tab. The interface is very very quick. Switching tabs is extreamly quick. I also like that it has the middle button thingy so when you press it, a window opens up in a new tab.

It also comes with a totally cut off version of it's self (similar to the safe mode in firefox). Im guessing this is for pooched IE's that won't start or people who wish to browse with IE without plugins.

Screenshot of Safemode

Well ... it seems safemode really doesn't want you to use it. You get a sound and that top bar flashes when you goto any site with it.

All in all ... It's IE 6 with tabs and a fucked up interface. I wonder what it will look like when it's done :)

solosoft

Wow ... im almost impressed with it.

My first impressions of it was not too good. I goto install it and it forces me to validate my XP install. For some stupid reason it passed :/. Anywho ... it installs like a Service Pack (which pretty much what it is) and asks you to reboot.

Once it's loaded the interface is fucked.

Screenshot

I don't like the point that you can not have your file menu on the very top of the screen. Oviously the graphics are not done because the little box beside those tabs makes a new tab. The interface is very very quick. Switching tabs is extreamly quick. I also like that it has the middle button thingy so when you press it, a window opens up in a new tab.

It also comes with a totally cut off version of it's self (similar to the safe mode in firefox). Im guessing this is for pooched IE's that won't start or people who wish to browse with IE without plugins.

Screenshot of Safemode

Well ... it seems safemode really doesn't want you to use it. You get a sound and that top bar flashes when you goto any site with it.

All in all ... It's IE 6 with tabs and a fucked up interface. I wonder what it will look like when it's done :)

solosoft

The Mac Mini is for the market that wants a mac for cheap ... face it ...

You don't buy a mac for cheap computing power, you buy it for the experience. The lack of driver issues, spyware and other common Windows based problems.

I built my Athlon64 for 800 bucks it has

A Clear Case
Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester core) 939
1gb of Dual Channel DDR400 Memory
ATI Radeon 9600XT All-In-Wonder
160gb IDE Maxtor HDD
Plextor 716-A DVD Burner
The rest you see (the fancy lights and do'dads) I got off ebay.

It's PC's expandablity which makes it so cheap. I can buy one part retail and the other off some joe off the Street. If I couldn't of gotten some of those parts off ebay I would of payed WAY more then what I did. I got the powersupply for 10 bucks off ebay. I got the Fans for 4 bucks off ebay. I got the Thermaltake Hardcano 9 off my friend for 20 bucks. The lights in it (blacklight and the blue one) 10 bucks. All those savings add up and you get WAY more then what you pay for. I don't see a big market of macs in "pieces".
I can't go buy a case ... slap a G5 Motherboard in it ... buy my own video card and sound card etc etc.

Of course you could build a mac like that but ... do you see them often ?

btw, the only pieces of that PC purchased retail was the Athlon 64 chip , the Asus A8v Motherboard and the RAM.

The Mac Mini is for the market that wants a mac for cheap ... face it ...

You don't buy a mac for cheap computing power, you buy it for the experience. The lack of driver issues, spyware and other common Windows based problems.

I built my Athlon64 for 800 bucks it has

A Clear Case
Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester core) 939
1gb of Dual Channel DDR400 Memory
ATI Radeon 9600XT All-In-Wonder
160gb IDE Maxtor HDD
Plextor 716-A DVD Burner
The rest you see (the fancy lights and do'dads) I got off ebay.

It's PC's expandablity which makes it so cheap. I can buy one part retail and the other off some joe off the Street. If I couldn't of gotten some of those parts off ebay I would of payed WAY more then what I did. I got the powersupply for 10 bucks off ebay. I got the Fans for 4 bucks off ebay. I got the Thermaltake Hardcano 9 off my friend for 20 bucks. The lights in it (blacklight and the blue one) 10 bucks. All those savings add up and you get WAY more then what you pay for. I don't see a big market of macs in "pieces".
I can't go buy a case ... slap a G5 Motherboard in it ... buy my own video card and sound card etc etc.

Of course you could build a mac like that but ... do you see them often ?

btw, the only pieces of that PC purchased retail was the Athlon 64 chip , the Asus A8v Motherboard and the RAM.

Not that I pirated my windows :/

Service Pack 2 is a breeze. I have the first copy of XP. All you have to do is Download this and copy it to the root of your C drive. Open up the "Command Prompt" and goto your root of the drive. Type in "cdkey xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" as in x's are your SP2 compatable CD key. Once you press enter you should see nothing come up. (if somthing does then find a working key). Once your CD key is changed then Goto this site and click "Download and Deploy Service Pack 2 for multiple Computers". Once you are done that install SP2 and your done.

Hopefully this is some help.

Well if your really intrested. I compiled KDE 3.3 in 4 days with make -j 3 . (of course that's only the base system and not all the packages and of course all the optimization flags for my CPU cranked)

That's of course on a Dual Pentium Pro. I compiled it and ran it for 3 days then got over it and went to windowmaker. I only compiled it for fun.

Now that machine sits headless in the corner folding protiens and hosting my crummy website

Well if your really intrested. I compiled KDE 3.3 in 4 days with make -j 3 . (of course that's only the base system and not all the packages and of course all the optimization flags for my CPU cranked)

That's of course on a Dual Pentium Pro. I compiled it and ran it for 3 days then got over it and went to windowmaker. I only compiled it for fun.

Now that machine sits headless in the corner folding protiens and hosting my crummy website