League of Legends Friends List and Smoothwall

Recently I’ve have been playing the great game League of Legends but my friends list has not been working. After dealing with the problem for several weeks, I’ve finally found the issue. I use Smoothwall for my router, and as Smoothwall users may know, it has a niffty IM proxy feature. Well, after playing with… Continue reading League of Legends Friends List and Smoothwall

Intel D945GCLF2 and Surround Sound on Gentoo

I while back I purchased an Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard to play with. This board features the dual core Atom 330 processor in a nice mini-ITX form factor. I’ve recently set this up as a media center PC, running Gentoo and XBMC. I’ve been quite happy with its performance in this role, but there was one… Continue reading Intel D945GCLF2 and Surround Sound on Gentoo

Network Bonding in Gentoo

I’ve been trying to find a good use for the second network adapter in my fileserver, and what better than to increase the throughput to the network. Using something called bonding, its possible to combine two physical network adapters into one logical bonded adapter. Using a bonded adapter provides several advantages such as fallover should… Continue reading Network Bonding in Gentoo

Deny Hosts and SSH Login Attempt Behavior

A few weeks ago I installed DenyHosts, a small deamon (can also be run as a cron job) that runs on my server to block IP’s that make brute force SSH login attempts.  The script has worked great, blocking over 500 hosts on the first day I used it (including myself a few times…).  One… Continue reading Deny Hosts and SSH Login Attempt Behavior

Philips SPC900NC Camera On Linux Is A Go

In researching information about using a webcam as a low cost camera for astrophotography, many people recommended the Philips SPC900NC camera due to its use of a good quality 1.3 megapixel CCD sensor at a decent price. I bought mine from ebay, but its also available on Amazon and Newegg. My first attempt at playing… Continue reading Philips SPC900NC Camera On Linux Is A Go

Battery Life

Now that I’m safely at my destination, I can continue where I left off.  Recently I’ve been trying to see how long I can extend my battery life on my Thinkpad T30 (aka darkstar, running xubuntu).  One of the methods I’ve been trying is not starting x (and thus not starting xfce).  Of course there… Continue reading Battery Life

elinks

In an airport just doing a test of elinks. Working better than I expected on wordpress, glad to see that they’ve included text only support. I’ve discovered that my battery life is extended when I don’t start X on my laptop. More on this later, they just called my flight.