Unboxing the Netgear WNR3500L Router

In this video, I unbox the Netgear WNR3500L Wireless-N Gigabit Open Source Router.

My new WNR3500L router should be an excellent upgrade over the venerable Linksys WRT54GL. Some highlights of WNR3500L include:

  • Wireless-N networking
  • 4 Gigabit wired ports
  • 64 MB RAM
  • 8 MB Flash
  • Fast CPU (for this class of router)
  • USB 2.0 port
  • Support for 3rd party open source firmware
  • Community website




Netbook shopping

Though both “nerdboys” have been out of school for quite some time we still marvel at “back to school” sales.  Back in the day of course, “back to school sale” meant purely new pens, pencils and binders.  (Back in the day, we also had to walk 5 miles to school, uphill both ways….)
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Case Mod How-To for the Alix Single Board Computer

In this article I present a how-to for doing a simple case mod for the Alix single board computer (SBC).

Haven’t heard of the Alix yet? The Alix is actually an entire series of single board computers made by Switzerland’s PC Engines. Each Alix board features an AMD Geode LX CPU (Fig. 1) and various combinations of RAM, LAN ports, miniPCI slots and USB ports, depending on the model.
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Tinyproxy on WRT54GS

I installed Tinyproxy 1.6.3 on my LinkSys WRT54GS router today. Following are some installation notes and comments about Tinyproxy.

My router currently runs the White Russian RC5 release of the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Tinyproxy is not yet an officially supported OpenWrt package. Rather, it is part of the “backports” package repository. To install Tinyproxy, I first had to add the backports repository to my repository list by adding the following line to my /etc/ipkg.conf file: Continue reading » Tinyproxy on WRT54GS

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