http://www.systemerror.co.uk observations and rants from a guy who needs to get out more Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:36:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many years ago I bought a Linksys WRT54G router, version 2, which was great. Ran solidly, very rarely had to reboot it etc. As parts of the firmware for the router were under the GPL, Linksys released the source, and a few variations of the router software appeared. You could upload ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/11/16/unbricking-a-linksys-router/ One of the lads on my regular video gaming forum, NTSC-uk, is getting a Mac, and was asking what apps and widgets people use on Mac. No specifics, just chuck some ideas at him. Here's what I said; Quicksilver (keyboard app/file launcher) Once you've tried it, you really can't be without it. Perian ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/10/28/widgets-and-free-apps/ Pixelmator's been making in-roads into designers/programmers toolboxes on the mac for a year or so now. You may have read or heard about it on the various Mac news sites, it's a light-weight image editor, built on Cocoa, passing graphics tasks off to your graphics chip, challenging Photoshop etc. Some of ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/10/01/pixelmator-says-a-thousand-words/ Bruce Lawson asked the Twitterverse for a show of hands of Opera users, and their whys, but if not, let him know the reasons. At the moment, I'm an Opera user. I say at the moment because my browser of choice seems to change on a bi-monthly basis. Being a ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/09/15/why-opera/ dConstuct 2008, Designing the Social Web is a yearly event held in the Brighton Dome, including speeches and workshops around the topic of the evolving social side of the internet. After catching a few friends on Twitter and GeekUp talking about dConstruct I thought I'd get myself along to a conference ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/09/07/dconstruct-2008-brighton/ I introduced a friend of mine to war-driving and stumbling tonight, and we went for a quick spin with the Asus so he could see what it was all about. Sold! Here's the drive; View Larger Map http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/07/03/stumble-blackburn/ From: http://herenot.livejournal.com/60043.html via: daringfireball.net "The big advantage Apple has with the iPhone is that they control the entire product, top to bottom. The case, the chipsets, the OS, the user interface.".... "Google’s dependence on hardware and carrier partners puts the final product out of their control — and into the control of companies ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/06/27/androids-main-disadvantage-against-the-iphone/ After getting Kismet set up on the EEE it was time to go for a walk. With the GPS stuck to the lid of the closed EEE, I shoved it in the push-chair and set off. Totalled around 650 networks on a stroll through the centre of Gijón and along ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/06/22/stumble-gijon/ As you may have well deduced, I'm a mac boy. I know of the command line, and I'm not scared of it, as such, but I was getting a bit miffed with instructions for getting Kismet running under Linux Mint/Ubuntu. Essentially, every guide told you how to install Kismet, told you to ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/06/21/fking-kismet/ wEEEdriving? Anyway, with Mac OS X on the Asus, Kismac was next. While I waited for the Dell mini pci-e card to arrive, I dug out the old D-Link DWL-G122 USB stick and the GlobalSat USB GPS and hooked it all up. After remembering where all the relevant drivers were, Kismac ... http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/06/01/wardriving-with-an-eee/