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How To Turn A Wireless Router Into A Wireless Access Point

Hopefully this article will help me turn my $9.99 wireless router I got from Staples into a wireless access point so I can wirelessly connect to the net using my PSP. Now if they could only crack the firmware 2.0 so I could use secure networking with the PSP.

Nice Free Wallpaper Gallery

Caedes.net seems to be a pretty decently gallery of free desktop wallpapers. In my quick searches I found plenty of large (1280x1024+) quality wallpaper images. Check it out.

Huge List of Default Router Passwords

I only post this so it becomes obvious to anyone with a router, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD as soon as you get new networking hardware. Because the bad guys also have access to this very same list. Scary stuff. On a side note, anyone know why Linksys hardware completely ignores the username field? It's fluff. Put anything (or nothing) in there and it'll work just fine with the correct password. Dumb. Seems unfinished.

How To Get The Best Deal From Dell

An interesting article on how to get the best deal from Dell. An interesting fact is that when you phone in an order, a sales rep can always beat the best website price by 20% (sometimes 30%) on Dell branded items. This can add up to hundreds of dollars simply by placing a phone order instead of ordering via the web. I had no idea. Definitely worth the read!

Nexuiz

Check out this multi-platform easy-on-your-system open-sourced deathmatch game called Nexuiz. It has Windows, Mac, and Linux binaries. I plan to check it out tonight after work, but the screenshots and sample videos looked nice.

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Singing the praises of "grub-reboot"

I'm currently running a dual-boot machine at home (Win XP Pro and Ubuntu). Grub is set to default to Ubuntu (which is fine by me) but I had a project I was working on in Windows. Well, thanks to XP's new fangled "I'm gonna update and reboot your computer unattended" features, occasionally I'd find my machine unresponsive to remote desktop sessions... a quick ssh connection later and I'd confirmed my suspicions. The machine had updated and rebooted... into another OS. I looked around for way to specify how to reboot and today I found (and tested) it. The command is "grub-reboot". You simply look at your /boot/grub/menu.lst file and see what number in the list of OSes you want to reboot into and issue the command "sudo grub-reboot 6" (because in my list, 6 is Windows XP Pro). A couple minutes later and remote desktop was working perfectly (tunneled through an ssh connection of course... ;) I now have the power to switch operatings systems remotely which really adds a lot of power to my remote computing abilities. I just wanted to share that tidbit with anybody interested in reading...

The Arrival of NX (Part 4 of 7)

Here's part 4 of the impressive series detailing NoMachine's NX remote X-Windows technology.

How To Secure Your Wireless Network

Here's a quick article on how to adequately secure your wireless network.

Interesting NewEgg Info

While I've had nothing but excellent service from NewEgg.com, this article uncovers some of the behind the scenes efforts to keep NewEgg's customer reviews slanted toward the positive side.

Speed Demos Archive

This site has a collection of videos showing people beating various games at breakneck speed. They compete to see who can get the best level times through dozens and dozens of games. It's interesting to pick a game you've played a lot and then watch one of these guys show you how it's really done.

150 Linux Tips (Some are great ones too!)

Here's a regularly updated list of 150 tips for Linux users. The tips are all command line tips. A few I use regularly and a few more I knew and didn't really consider them a big deal (piping output to less instead of more to allow two-way scrolling, etc). All in all, there were dozens of things I was new to or unfamiliar with. Check it out if you use Linux regularly.

Tunneling Samba Shares Through Firewalls Via SSH

I'm fairly new to the idea of tunneling connections via ssh and have enjoyed the added security of tunneling my Windows XP remote desktop connections through a secure tunnel, but I recently ran across a page detailing how to access Samba shares sitting behind a firewall via a tunneled ssh connection. And it worked great!

ext2/ext3 Filesystem Driver for Windows

Here is a freeware ext2/ext3 filesystem driver for your Windows NT/2000/XP box. It does not support permissions, so anyone can write to anything if you mount an ext2/ext3 drive under Windows, but for home use if you know what you're doing, this could be great.

How To Compile PSP Apps

After reading through and following Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 you will have set up a PSP development environment on your Windows machine and will be able to compile source code for PSP apps and write your own simple programs as well. The author promises more advanced lessons in the future. It was nice to see an extremely easy to follow (if somewhat slow) how-to on getting the PSP Toolchain installed. Worked great!

The Arrival of NX (Part 3 of 7)

A continuation of the series detailing NX and how it works.

Getting More From Your Shell

A nice little summary of shell tips that may make your command line experience more productive.

The Arrival of NX (Part 2 of 7)

Here is the second part of a seven part series detailing NoMachine's "NX" technology to using remote desktops over links as slow as dial-up.

Netflix Turnaround Prediction Calculator

M. Villanueva has written a nifty little web page that estimates how Netflix will possibly alter your future shipments based on whether you've rented too many movies and need "punished".

Personally I do see a line where it becomes unprofitable for NetFlix with their shipping charges, but if you market a service as 8-at-a-time and someone gets the discs back in the mail next day (maybe multiple people in the family watch only certain discs) you should certainly be able to cycle through more than 40 discs in a month (not accounting for odd mail holidays and rural routes).

CLI Magic: Regular Expressions & Metacharacters

Another entry in Linux.com's CLI Series shows you some basic and somewhat advanced examples of using regular expressions to make life easier.

Suppose you need to search a text file for two similar words -- let's say "Linux" and "Linus." You might run two separate greps, or use the grep -e option (grep -e Linux -e Linus). But a better way might be to use the square brackets metacharacters:

grep Linu[sx] myfile.txt