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DD-WRT on Asus WL520GU

Leion — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:53:51 +0000

My linksys WRT54GC failed me after 4 good years and after much research and ponder, I finally got myself the Asus WL520GU wireless router for $85. It comes with a usb connector for printer server. The interface of original firmware( version 3.0.0.8) for this router is better than that in Linksys. I like the QoS function of this router. Best of all, the firmware can be flashed with more functionality!

After deliberating for a week, I finally decided to give it a go and flash the router with a open source firmware and risking breaking the brand new router. All is good. Now I have better functionality and Network Attached Storage(NAS) capability with the router. I have yet to test the ftp with the NAS. I do not have much use for this function yet but the ability to have this thrills me nonetheless. Somehow, I can feel the speedier connection on the new firmware already.

Below are the steps that I have taken to flash and upgrade my router.

Set the router’s ip as 192.168.1.1
Set static ip for your computer as 192.168.1.10, mask 255.255.255.0 and connect to the router via lan port 1
Download the NEWD_mini_asus.trx and the NEWD_mini_usb_ftp.bin files from here
Flash the firmware: Pull the power of the router while pushing the reset button. Release when the power button is flashing
Use the Asus firmware restore tool and upload the NEWD_mini_asus.trx file
After the flash is successful, log in to the router via telnet: root/admin
Type the following commands to reset the user settings: erase nvram then reboot
Open up the browser and surf to 192.168.1.1
A password page will come up, just skip and go Administration tab, then choose Firmware upgrade
Now upload the NEWD_mini_usb_ftp.bin file for the real thing.
Wait for the upload to complete before returning to 192.168.1.1
Save a new username and password. The new router is ready to fly

New function: FTP

For more info: look here and here

See here for Multiple SSID for concurrent WEP and WPA2 wireless network

Boomshine

Leion — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:56:38 +0000

CM passed me this link and I spent 20 minutes playing this fun addictive game.
Cleared it.

Here’s the proof:

Google Image Labeler

Leion — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:26:31 +0000

Google has done it again.

Innovating. This time they come up with a game. A user/player can just log in and label some random pictures taken from sites that Google bot crawls. Some random player will be shown the same picture. If the 2 players labeled the picture with a same keyword, then points will be awarded to both the players.

In Google’s words:

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

This means there will be humans labelling the pictures with keywords. The keywords will be somewhat accurate because the 2 players are randomly chosen and for them to come up with identical keywords, the keywords chosen must be related to the picture. Points system will get some gamers addicted. They will play again and again and again, with the aim of getting the highest score. and a name in the rank list.

This means free work done for Google. Google will get more accurate image labels for free. Labelers will get their fun trying to climb up rank.

Win Win situation. Google and Google searchers.

How to defeat a RSS reader

Leion — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:34:51 +0000

RSS is really a good thing.

I used it for reading my friends’ blogs off a single site. Recently I found out that one of a friend’s blog do not seem to be updated on my RSS reader. I surf to his blog and realise what happened.

He had put an entry that is dated in the future. This means that this entry will always be the first entry in his blog. Not a problem actually. Just that my google reader no longer works. All his new entries are no longer picked up. I suspect this is because the reader only matches the first entry in the RSS feed to determine if there are any new entries.

While I have not tried using other RSS readers, I think the same results will be reproduced. So it is back to normal blog hoping to get all the information now. At least before google reader change the way it loads new lists…

WordPress 2.0.3

Leion — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:09:34 +0000

This is the newest version. Though I knew of it in the afternoon when it was 1 hour old from here, I have only upgraded it just now. It is easy. Download the files and overwrite the old ones. Then click a special link. amos upgraded it and gave me confidence that the sky will not fall on me and hence I did it.

This blog is now globalised

Leion — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:01:38 +0000

I have added a really cool translate widget from here.

Just click on the little flags to have google translate the page for you. Nice and easy.

Great work Trev and google!

Parking perfection

Leion — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:25:47 +0000

My friend Jason send me this link to play this parking game.

Click here for bigger version

Like my real driving, I find it hard to do the parallel parking. haha So I am stucked in round 3. Nonetheless, this game is good fun and can be used for training for newbie drivers and lousy drivers like me

Website as graphs

Leion — Sun, 28 May 2006 19:38:59 +0000

I think this is art.

This picture is generated with a program in website as graphs. This program takes in a URL and generates connected colour dots by what the website pointed to by what the URL has. Each dot is coloured differently depending on the html tags encountered. Each run of the program with the same url gives a slightly different picture. Personally, I think this is a very nicely done flower.

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

For a more updated picture of this site, click here.

A way to cut Firefox memory usage

Leion — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:17:51 +0000

Now I can cut memory usage on my beloved firefox on demand! The way to do it is simple. All I need to do is to minimise my FF window, then I restore it again. This is exactly what I am always doing when I work on my computer. So this is really painless for me. However there is a step that is needed to be done before the magic trick mentioned above can work. The trick is to do it:

Type about:config in the Firefox address bar
Writeclick on the page and choose New Boolean
Enter config.trim_on_minimize into the preference name
Set it to true
Restart your Firefox baby.

I got the information from here. I think this is a good way to check memory usage of Firefox and that it will keep out memory wastage. Try it. It really helps.

Do you like me?

Leion — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:09:35 +0000

Do you like me?
I may not know.

Or am I bothering you?
I do have a way of finding out….

If you are chatting with your friend online, then will you close the chat window whilst the chat is still going on? No I think. But what are the reasons to do so?
I have come up with a few:

You are busy and the chat is hindering your work.
You do not like your chatter.
Your taskbar is too overcrowded with programs…
You are at somewhere, where you do not wan others to know that you are chatting
Being seen chatting with this chatter is embarrassing.

Most of us are users of msn messenger and we do not have a way to know if the other party has been closing that chat window….

BUT

What if that is a way to get that information? How will you feel if your crush/good friend/buddy has been doing this all the time? How will you feel?

Look at this:

This is GAIM
It is a 3rd party messenger client for MSN, ICQ and other chat networks.
This is what I use when I log into my Ubuntu OS.

Sometimes I see the windows closing information I will take that the person is busy. But if I see it all the time, I know about my status in that person's mind?

Portable Firefox

Leion — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:12:56 +0000

Oh yes!

It has been my dream to have my firefox with me whereever I go, with the same settings and extensions that I have on my home computer. Now, I have it!

The program is called portable firefox.

Download from here: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

It is a zip file. Just unzip the files and copy your profiles settings into the profile folder of the zip. Launch the portable firefox program and we are free to surf the net with our very own settings and extensions!

Cool! Keep up the good work!

Pingoat

Leion — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:13:27 +0000

If you have a blog, then ping services may not be new to you

Many blogs support ping. Ping means to tell another site, mostly blog directories and search engines that you have new content. Even my blog I have configured ping services to ping some sites.

Introducing a new server from the creator of this new ping database program.

http://www.pingoat.com/

Currently, this program supports 50 ping sites. All you need to do is to input your site name and url then click on which sites to ping then click the GO button and the sites are informed of your blog's presence! I recommand not to click all 50 sites at one go. This will slow down the ping. Maybe spilt the ping into 5 times will be better.

Here are some comment on how others think of this cool service

Comments on the offical site

Why not give it a try now?