Google has started beta testing of its free Wi-Fi service in a few San Francisco locations. I don't know how the access to users look like, but the big concern for us is how secure it is to people, especially when people access sensitive data (e.g. e-commerce, etc.)
Anyway, this is a good news and I would admit to say that Google is one of cool companies to work for. Kudos to Google for its initiative!
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
Firmwares for WRT54G
OK, now I am going to tell you about a few firmwares that crash my linksys (luckily I have revived the router, thanks to the instructions posted at http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/wrt54g_revival.html.
The working firmware on my router is Tarifa 0003. Unfortunately, I have never been able to make it as wireless bridge (WDS), eventhough I follow the instructions from the Internet (I guess it was at www.linksysinfo.org).
Anyway, after failing to flash the nvram with another firmware, I was able to recover my router which almost become a brick. :-)
The working firmware on my router is Tarifa 0003. Unfortunately, I have never been able to make it as wireless bridge (WDS), eventhough I follow the instructions from the Internet (I guess it was at www.linksysinfo.org).
Anyway, after failing to flash the nvram with another firmware, I was able to recover my router which almost become a brick. :-)
WRT54G Revival Guide
Here I just repost from http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/wrt54g_revival.html, in case his website is down. The steps below works perfectly on my new Linksys WRT54G v4.
/* Void Main's WRT54G Tips */ | ||||
{ Red Hat Tips(); } else { main(); } | ||||
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Monday, September 19, 2005
Spamming going nastier!
A lot of junk emails I receive everyday. I use mostly my Yahoo account for personal emails because their Spamfilter is pretty cool. But recently, I received some weird emails which originated from my blogger!
Google's blogger has a feature to forward any posting on our blogger webpage, kinda notification message. But now this good feature has been abused by spammers to send their trashes! They click "comment" on some of my postings and put trash messages, hence I get notifications in my email.
I think I will just disable this notification, leaving alone the trash on the blogger's comments.
Google's blogger has a feature to forward any posting on our blogger webpage, kinda notification message. But now this good feature has been abused by spammers to send their trashes! They click "comment" on some of my postings and put trash messages, hence I get notifications in my email.
I think I will just disable this notification, leaving alone the trash on the blogger's comments.
Broadband Penetration
Last week I borrowed a book from my professor titled Broadband Services: Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks. My professor is one of the editor.
After flipping some pages, I starred on one page that has a diagram showing the top 15 countries with broadband penetration. Do you know what? The United States is only in the 11th place.
The number of most broadband-penetrated country is South Korea, followed with Hong Kong, Canada, Taiwan, Denmark, Belgium, Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands, Japan, USA, Austria, Switzerland, Singapore and the last one is Finlad.
After flipping some pages, I starred on one page that has a diagram showing the top 15 countries with broadband penetration. Do you know what? The United States is only in the 11th place.
The number of most broadband-penetrated country is South Korea, followed with Hong Kong, Canada, Taiwan, Denmark, Belgium, Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands, Japan, USA, Austria, Switzerland, Singapore and the last one is Finlad.
Tweaking Linksys Router (Part 3)
Last night I tried to reprogram my new Linksys WRTG54GS with different firmware (I think it is Alchemy version (?)). It uploaded with no problem, but when I tried to reboot it, it just hung!
Gosh, I just wasted my $90 something for the now-turned-to-useless-brick router (well, not really, because I am going to return it to BestBuy and claim that it does not work at all. May be I'll just exchange with WRT54G as this model has a lot more different firmwares.
I'll post again once I get the exchange and success on upgrading the firmware.
Gosh, I just wasted my $90 something for the now-turned-to-useless-brick router (well, not really, because I am going to return it to BestBuy and claim that it does not work at all. May be I'll just exchange with WRT54G as this model has a lot more different firmwares.
I'll post again once I get the exchange and success on upgrading the firmware.
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