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At home I’m still using my age-old Linksys WRT54GS router, it’s such a fantastic piece of hardware! Back when I bought the the router I tested various alternative firmware’s, but settled for OpenWrt/X-Wrt.   

Well, a few days ago when I felt  it was that upgrade time again I thought to have another try at the other firmware’s again. That’s when I instantly fell in love with (a) Tomato! I mean, just the name! Who the hell would call a router Tomato?! By that definition it had to be something extra special.  And, boy it certainly was!

Check out linksysinfo.org forums for more info, add-ons and mods. The picture above is from the latest Vicitec Mod of Tomato that I’m currently running.

I ran into this revisions annoyance in WordPress…It’s no problem to turn off the beast, but rather to clean out the existing revisions from the DB.

Luckily others also get annoyed.  Andrei Neculau cooked up a nice sql query that took care of the leftovers

So, I got tired of the old CMS and after having evaluated a few alternatives I decided to use WordPress. The feature set (over)matched the simple needs of this site. WordPress is simple yet powerfull.

First thing that strikes is that a theme is not the usual replaceable chrome – It’s more or less the actual (presenting) engine. This quite rapidly gets extremely enerving and limiting. Sooner than quick I retardate (sic) to merely removing annoyances instead of utilizing and empowering what’s there.

However, given the generic other options, or even by itself, the benefits way overmatches the limitations, for me, now.

Here’s the short

Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard (WIWW) 0.2.0 can create Windows Installer msi wrapper files that will execute commands you specify in a wizard. Its intended use is allowing administrators to execute commands or install software using machine assigned or user published group policies…/

Article here
Backup copy: windows_installer_wrapper_wizard_020

I actually used this on a HP DL360 (with a RAID set) through ILO over a WAN connection. Worked like a charm!

Parted Magic is a ~30mb LiveCD/USB with it’s only purpose being partitioning hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like partimage, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc…

Read more and download here

Backup copy (//090102) pmagic-3.4.iso.zip

Openfiler is a browser-based network storage management utility. Linux-powered, Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) and block-based SAN in a single framework. It supports CIFS, NFS, HTTP/DAV, FTP, and iSCSI.

Read more here

Came around this. Looks great!

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 16MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.
The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall.

Read more and download here

Allrite, so I bought this LaCie Ethernet Disk mini 300GB to have as backup unit and to store some of the kids movies and some music. The damn thing however came delivered with fat32 filesystem (max file size=4gb but just 2gb over network + other shortcoming of fat32)

Now there was the option to format the thing with EXT3 file system; however that EXT3 thing would certainly not be readable from USB cable connection from my Windows thingies. Enter Ext2 (ext3 too!) driver for Windows and all is great again

Complete reading and writing access to files and directories of volumes with the Ext2 or Ext3 file system.
Supports features which are specific to the I/O-system of Windows: Byte Range Locks, Directory Notfication (so the Explorer updates the view of a directory on changes within that directory), Oplocks (so SMB clients are able to cache the content of files).
Allows Windows to run with paging files on Ext2 volumes.

Read more and download here
Backup copy here (v. 1.11a //090102)

So you want to use Firefox, but you’re going ballistic when you can’t manage Firefox through GPO?
Well, enter FirefoxADM…

FirefoxADM is an open-source project dedicated to the goal of being able to manage large numbers of Firefox installations on a network using the Windows Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPOs)

Read more and download here

GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Download an entire site
wget -m -p -k robots=off http://www.somesite.foo.com

This will commmand will do the stuff, and -m and -p will grab all images, CSS, etc. robots=off ignores a sites robots.txt file If you add the -k flag, wget will convert all absolute links into relative links.

Donwload a part of a site
wget -m -k -np http://www.somesite.foo.com/images

The -np (no parent) options means that wget won’t travel “above” /images in the hierarchy

Check here for additional versions
Backup copy here  (1.10.2 //090102)