Guess what I saw today driving in Lakeside…
Kind of hard to see, but yeah it is the Google Street View car. My phone’s camera is pretty bad, this was as high res at it would allow…
Archive for July, 2008
Google Street View Car in Duluth
Monday, July 21st, 2008Uncrappifying your Qwest Modem (if it is a GT-701WG that is)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008I have DSL service from Qwest. It is ok. Beats the competition. The one thing I HATE is the modem I got from them, an Actiontec GT-701WG.
The problem? It was darn near impossible to make it be JUST a modem, not act as a router/gateway, not act as a NAT, no frickin Actioncrap firewall, just give me the WAN Ip address!
Nearley, but not impossible. Here is how.
The trick is to set the modem to transparent bridged mode (I think it was labeled as RFC 1483 Bridged). You should be able to find it somewhere in the advanced setup section. The username and password needed below are also found on the same page.
Then you take your handy dandy router (mine is running DD WRT v.24, may not work with standard firmware) and change the WAN setup like this:
1. Connection type = PPPoE (Even though Qwest says they only support PPPoA
2. Username = your username… our was parts of our last name followed by some numbers.
3. Password = corresponding password
4. PPP Compression = On. At least I have it on.
Everything else in that option group set to off. While you’re at it, go to DNS and grab OpenDNS’s DNS server’s ips and throw them in there.
Now what the heck did this do? Well, now your router’s WAN IP will be the Ip assigned by Qwest. Before it was being assigned an IP by the Actiontec modem, probably 192.168.1.1XX, cause it was acting as a router, which sucks. Now, the router is the gateway and, if you’re running DD WRT or some other thirdparty firmware, a much better gateway than the Actiontec was.
Its been going for a month like this and hasn’t been power cycled. Not to mention all the much better features DD WRT offers. Sweet.
Moved Hosts again..
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Moved hosts again. Taking it all in house. Yup, this fine blog of mine (and lots of other crap) is now being served off my home brew server sitting behind the TV(also acting as a fileserver). If there is one thing I freaking hate, it is moving a Wordpress install. Something always messes up and, while usually very easy to fix, it is never easy to spot.
I’ve also moved back to Apache2 from Nginx since I’ve got a lil more muscle to go around than with the Slicehost account I had. I’m going to hold on to it (Slicehost account) to see if anything horribly wrong happens. but I think this should be fun.
Alright, DNS is still propagating for yerhot.org and some others. Hopefully it’ll be done in the a.m. I’m hitting the sack.
Lemme know if you have any thoughts.
m night sucksalot
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Why don’t I listen to people? Jen and I just sat through The Happening. Yes, it does suck just as much as every other M Night Shamalama dig dong movie since the Sixth Sense.
How he managed to make Mark Wahlberg and John Leguizamo completely suck beyond belief is beyond me. I’m not even sure why I’m writing this. Guess it was so bad I felt the need to let everyone know.