DDWRT vs. TOMATO
Having used a WRT54GS (v1.1) since my old BEFSR41 died, I've been around the block when it comes to firmware for this little powerhouse. First, an example of my home network.
WD20EARS 4096 HDD vs fdisk
Having purchased a new WD20EARS 4096 (2 terabyte hard drive) I was anxious to put the new beast in my home server, format the drive, and get to moving files around.
so I sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc as I normally do..
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
I tore everything apart, ensured the bios would handle the drive, and exhausted seemingly every resource.. until I found that these drives no longer start at sector 63.. they start at sector 64.
http://wiki.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1456251 -- Thanks guys.
Breakdown:
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x962f53fb.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
switch off the mode (command 'c').
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First sector (63-3907029167, default 63): 64
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (64-3907029167, default 3907029167):
Using default value 3907029167
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Then just mkfs.ext4 and mount.
PS3: Laws? pfft!
"It only does everything."
Not any more. In a rather bold move by Sony, they have removed the "Other OS" feature from their console with the latest update of their firmware.
I'm not happy about it, as it was a selling point in my purchase. Now a feature I bought has been removed, and I have to comply with the removal should I wish to play games. I'm not alone in the disgust.
Is Comcast’s Xfinity Brand Name Xcellent or Xcrement?: Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog
Is Comcast's Xfinity Brand Name Xcellent or Xcrement?: Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog.
Or in other words, this is an example of putting lipstick on a pig.
‘Assassin’s Creed 2′ DRM will hurt sales. Ubisoft will undoubtedly blame pirates.
The article says you can't even start the game without Internet, as you will be greeted by an error message. Making matters even worse, you are still kicked back to the main menu if the game loses connection to the "Ubisoft Master servers," which may not even be your fault.
Sprint international text charges on Samsung Moment
This is just a journal of my issues with Sprint charging international text charges when none of our contacts / texts / anything are outside of the USA.
This is a posted rough draft, that I will beautify later.
I have two lines, both sharing one plan. an exert of the bill (with personal information removed) is below.
HP total fail.
Last year my wife and I purchased two HP Pavilions (DV 9830-US). Fine laptops, aside from my ram being bad, her hard drive's death, and, one month out of warranty, the video chip on mine decided it had enough of the poor cooling and took a permanent break. This model of laptop was a portable furnace. This was a known issue, but this specific model wasn't in the class action lawsuit... lucky me. They refused to replace it. Rather than argue any more through a language barrier made of water and sand, I purchased a new model that boasted it ran cool. It did.
A fix needs to be published, in English.
Windows 7 users:
ACPI\ENE0100\3&33FD14CA&0 == IR receiver.
Open device manager, show hidden devices, select above, and select update driver, "browse my computer". Point to the folder created when extracting the archive. Do not run the EXEs contained within the archive.
Seeing as the first link to the file had vanished, I looked around and found that asimobile has moved their files to a FTP server.
Ony is dead.
Back in the day I was a addicted to World of Warcraft. I played not for end-game, but for the members of my guild (was 100+ strong at one point) and the fun we had together. I was alliance (not my fault, my (now) wife was alliance, and drug me in kicking and screaming), and a mage. Those are two horrid strikes against any wow player, but I had fun.
I was a nogg-aholic and my interest in the game started to diminish shortly after wall-walking was patched. I still explored, but with clipped wings. I never used any glitches to gain an advantage over others, and avoided battle-grounds like the plague, as did most nogg-aholics.
All that interested me in World of Warcraft is now dead. Exploration is all but moot in the expansions, and the new content (much of B.C. was released with 1.0, but not implemented until the first expansion) of Northend further destroys the continuity of World of Warcraft.
When I started, there were memories made in the following order.
- The boy king of Stormwind
- The Defias
- Van Cleef
- The missing diplomat
- Lady Prestor
- Onyxia attunement
- Onyxia
That sums up WoW 1.0's story in a nutshell... it all intertwined into a beautiful cliffhanger with an epic ending...
oh, by the way.. 1 4 5 and 6 were removed in the latest patch.
Skype 4.0 sucks
Boobs were all that made this new window style slightly tolerable.
I use Skype for secure text communications while I work.
Granted there are alternatives, there are none as simple. Install, login, go. Anything more complicated and the cattle would become confused and scatter. Hell, some have issues with just the above steps.
Skype recently updated their software with an "improved" user interface. While this is nice for the "aol age", it is absolute ass for those that work.
- The screen real estate has been wasted with tons of white space.
- The nick-list is now a horizontal bar along the top.
- The left side of a chat box is reserved for nicks alone.
- The right side of the chat box is reserved for time stamps.
- Icons are huge.
- There is no real compact view.
- There is no color customization like there was in 3.x.
- You can no longer decide what "tabs" to display.
- Tabs are gone. Everything (except history) is in the main window.
- File transfers are now inline (does not have a separate window) , and have less information.
- There is a constant advertisement at the top of the main window (this has been the case, but not for the "business" version).
- Will not allow DX9 full screen applications to launch.
- "Not Available" mode is gone.
- "Send Contacts" is removed.
- Will not allow my laptop to wake from suspended mode.
- "SkypeMe" mode is gone.