eric’s extremeboredom

I got my new router that I ordered on the 13th (yes, it took 10 days, stupid amazon.com…). It’s the Linksys WRT54G. Now normally I would never allow a linksys product to come within 300 feet of my house but since this thing runs Linux I figure they couldnt have screwed it up that badly… [...]

Just incase you needed another reason to use Firefox, I found a very usefull extension someone wrote that happens to be a must for all you crazy slashdotters… How often do you end up at a website with a very useful artical but as soon as you click on it you are prompted to log [...]

So I just bit the bullet and ordered a 19″ LCD. With any luck I’ll be able to use it instead of the two giant heavy hot CRTs I’m using now. Product link

So I finally got around to playing around with some VoIP stuff. I set up Asterisk, a really cool open-source PBX system that runs on Linux and a Linux softphone called SJphone. I integrated Asterisk with with a few free services: FreeWorldDialup – A free SIP-based VoIP network that offers free domestic PSTN US calls! [...]

So I ported all the network map code from vb.net to C# and restructured it so it can be used cross-platform. It’s not completly done yet but I managed to get initial rendering to work! The basic idea now is that all the painting methods reside in NetworkMapCommon which is then inherited by a class [...]

I thought I’d talk a little bit about my experience creating a Linux/Gtk frontend to Meshwork… The biggest challenge while writing the Gtk client has really been “I really don’t feel like doing all this again…” All platform-independent code is in the libMeshwork library, but that still leaves of platform-depended code that has to be [...]

So I was getting really tired of Firefox making my system run like poo on a stick so I decided to try the browser that comes with gnome, Epiphany. The first thing I noticed was the preferences window, or lack there of. The entire preferences window has a grand total of 16 options, giving you [...]

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So I finally gave up trying to fix the MSI service, moved my data off my primary harddrive, and did a repair install of Windows. Everything worked great, booted up to a desktop and everything. Amazingly when I attempted to install something buit with MSI it gave me an error saying H:\ was not found! [...]

So I just had to try out PearPC, a PowerPC (G3/G4) emulator that claims it can run Mac OSX. I have tried other Mac emulators in the past but never got very far, but the screenshots and hype surrounding this one got me curious enough to get a copy of Mac OSX 10.3 and give [...]