News and Reviews

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2011 Sep 29 - Vortexbox.org
Movies showing as "Unknown" since 1.10 upgrade

It's actually sort of silly to include this as an article, but it's really for my own reference. It's the one time I really got to dig in to "the code" and give something back to a project I enjoy and use heavily. In this case it was for the Vortexbox and movies were ripping as Unknown after an upgrade.
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2011 Sep 20 - LegacyGT.com
ProcessWest intercooler install (LGT fitment)

Beyond network devices, one of my other hobbies/killer of time/interest/whatever-you-may-call it is the love of automobiles. I wrote this article as a general "walk-through" for anyone else attempting the same install after the Australian company Process West sent me one of their Legacy GT fitment intercoolers for test fitting in the US market.
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Ever wondered what you can do with that little model label on the back of your home network equipment? In this article I want to show you a quick few things on how that little label can be useful. By grabbing that little number off the label and going to the FCC OET Equipment Authorization Search site, you can pull up valuable information such as which channel your router broadcasts with the highest transmit power. You can also see internal photos which would help you identify chipset and features. Let's see an example.
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Every time I say "simple bat file" I get flashbacks to my old shop teacher Mr. Lambert. He was a brilliant wood craftsman and we were all simply a bunch of clowns. While he was instructing us on how to make something in the perfect way that he did it, he would always start by saying, "you make yourself a jig". In a way, a bat file feels to me like a jig. Sure there are more eloquent ways of doing it and you could go nuts and make a Frankenstein-ish monster, but sometimes it's just easier to write a bat file quick. In the interest of creating usable content to get this going, I offer some of my simple home network scripts and bat files. In this case, monitoring Windows server DHCP leases. Useful where you are paranoid that someone may have gotten past your wireless security... The caveat here being that this works for sure on Windows Server 2003, I haven't tested on 2008 yet as I have access to none.
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