Sat, 25 Nov 2006

Mr Bollinger

Well in his current musical incarnation TK Bollinger ain't quite bleepin though I have played with him in his more bleepy incarnation at Ye Goode Olde Shen Ying nite club of yore.

To listen to his most excellent alt country type stuff in linux land, use the following command rather than battle through the windows centric mp3.com.au interface... 

totem "http://www.mp3.com.au/PlayAlbumASX.ASP?id=15268&Stream=96&File=Test.asx"

He also has a MySpace page that is less ugly than most other myspace pages... much like his sartorial splendour in person.

Posted at: 14:03 | category: /bleeps | # | 0 comments

Mon, 20 Nov 2006

2006 Victorian Elections

greens victoria

Posted at: 01:42 | category: /rants | # | 0 comments

Tue, 14 Nov 2006

Mitsubishi Diamond R100 with OpenWRT

Though I have not actively partaken in melb wireless I have remained on their mail list for the occasional interesting nerd discussion - from there I heard of a cheap deal wireless routers capable of running OpenWRT, so I snarfed one.

Installing the Asus wl500g version of OpenWRT White Russian RC6 via tftp I was able to get this excellent little distro up an running quickly, even booting with root on a USB key.. running it in bridged client mode so I can plug PCs in down the other end of the house, but fun having a well put together old school minimal Linux distro to play with as well.

Lets see how long I last with swap running on a USB memory stick..

Here is the output of dmesg, for the curious: 

CPU revision is: 00024000
Enabling BCM4710A0 cache workarounds.
Primary instruction cache 8kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 4kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.30 (mbm@reboot) (gcc version 3.4.4 (OpenWrt-1.0)) #1 Mon Nov 6 17:35:21 PST 2006
Setting the PFC value as 0x15
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 01000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4710 rev 0 at 125 MHz
Using 62.400 MHz high precision timer.
!unable to setup serial console!
Calibrating delay loop... 82.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14212k/16384k available (1464k kernel code, 2172k reserved, 104k data, 84k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB.
Squashfs 2.1-r2 (released 2004/12/15) (C) 2002-2004 Phillip Lougher
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
b44.c:v0.93 (Mar, 2004)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
eth0: Broadcom 47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:11:2f:e1:00:4a
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:08.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom 47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:11:2f:e1:00:4a
 Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.1 at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling fast programming due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x400000 at 0x1fc00000
bootloader size: 262144
Physically mapped flash: Filesystem type: squashfs, size=0xda5f3
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "cfe"
0x00040000-0x003f0000 : "linux"
0x000bf400-0x001a0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on an erase block boundary -- force read-only
0x003f0000-0x00400000 : "nvram"
0x001a0000-0x003f0000 : "OpenWrt"
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (5953 buckets, 5953 max) - 332 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear 
All bugs added by David S. Miller 
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
diag: Detected 'ASUS WL-500g'
Probing device eth0: No Robo switch in managed mode found
Probing device eth1: No Robo switch in managed mode found
Probing device eth2: No such device
Probing device eth3: No such device
BFL_ENETADM not set in boardflags. Use force=1 to ignore.
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
mini_fo: using base directory: /
mini_fo: using storage directory: /jffs
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb8004000, IRQ 2
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:04.0, PCI device 14e4:4715
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 2
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor:           Model: USB DISK Pro      Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor:           Model: USB DISK Pro      Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
SCSI device sda: 971776 512-byte hdwr sectors (498 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
Partition check:
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
SCSI device sdb: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun1: unknown partition table
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
jffs2: attempt to mount non-MTD device 08:01
SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on sd(8,1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
jffs2.bbc: SIZE compression mode activated.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:02.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.37.0
Probing device eth0: No Robo switch in managed mode found
Probing device eth1: No Robo switch in managed mode found
Probing device eth2: [switch-robo.c:90] SIOCGETCPHYRD failed!
[switch-robo.c:90] SIOCGETCPHYRD failed!
No Robo switch in managed mode found
Probing device eth3: No such device
BFL_ENETADM not set in boardflags. Use force=1 to ignore.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
eth2: attempt to add interface with same source address.
br0: port 2(eth2) entering listening state
br0: port 1(eth0) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth2) entering learning state
br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth2) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
b44: eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth1: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
Adding Swap: 32760k swap-space (priority -1)
device prism0 left promiscuous mode

Posted at: 08:11 | category: /nerdy | # | 1 comments

Tue, 07 Nov 2006

My Bush Would Make a Better President - Digital Primate

Excellent pop song by Digital Primate, check out the video on GootUbe Here. Good stuff. Nice start to a laid back Melb. Cup Morning.

Posted at: 11:00 | category: /bleeps | # | 0 comments

Sun, 05 Nov 2006

Blog of Dr Bunsen Honeydew

One part of mysterious duo Nerfcore has a Livejournal Blog.. at least LiveJournal sucks much (much) less than MySpace.

Posted at: 23:38 | category: /links | # | 1 comments

googlestats plugin added

since I am nerding out a bit on the blog I also added the google stats plugin.

Not sure if it will work, but we will see...

Posted at: 14:31 | category: /nerdy | # | 14 comments

blog comments turned back on

After upgrading to the backports.org newer version of pybloxsom, and installing the tweaked CAPTCHA plugin from Benjamin Mako Hill's pyblosxom plugin page

Now to go through and eliminate all the spam comments that accumulated in the short time I did have captcha-less comments enabled.

Posted at: 12:43 | category: /nerdy | # | 4 comments

Sat, 04 Nov 2006

nerd gear lust - nice monitors and power supplies

My good mate Rig picked these up for a friend, didn't really get to check them out but liked them muchly:

All purchased fairly cheaply from MSY. I didn't get to fully evaluate these, just they looked nice on first impression.

Posted at: 13:10 | category: /nerdy | # | 0 comments