As promised, here’s what I’ve been interested in as far as techonology goes lately.

Linksys WRT54G wireless router is turning out to be a geek’s wet wireless dream. There’s an open source firmware update that lets people use every imaginable feature of the Broadcom chip. You can do WDS (mesh networking), boost the antennae power, set your own routing tables. It’s just nuts. Unfortunately, you have to shell out $20 if you really want to get some help doing it. Not too high a price.
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I’ve moved my iBook over to Mac OS X 10.3 over the weekend. I was on 10.2 (Jaguar) for a really long time. I wanted to just wait out any problems there might be with the new version. Now that there have been about 2 updates, I figured it was time to take a look at it. It looks like all those other people were right about Panther being great. It’s fast and just continues to improve the greatest UNIX environment around.

I also got a chance to re-partition my laptop drive. I’ve moved over to a one big partition format because I’ve misjudged the size I’ve needed for music and other files in the past. Although, this guy has a good idea for how to setup Mac OS X. I might follow his advice if I got a Mac desktop.

I wrote the other day that I couldn’t get Mt-Blacklist.cgi to work. I then jumped through some hoops and took the less ridiculously easy install path to see fi that would work. I still got a working configuration, but not an active one. Only today did I turn to my friend google for the answer. I don’t know why I didn’t before, but Google found that my problem was that I wasn’t logging into Mt-Blacklist as a person who could create weblogs. Once I did, the activate switch was right there for me to click on. Wow, this module is ridiculously easy to use.

Spam comments, I banish you from this weblog!

If you’ve been visiting blogs lately (including mine) and I’ve noticed the increasing trend of blog spam. Especially on my site, since I show comments on the right hand side. Well, it was getting really annoying. I installed MT-Blacklist to help me remove the offending comments, but I seem to have problems getting the override mechanism to work so it automatically removes spam. I figured most of these spammers were targeting Movable Type installations and going after the mt-comments.cgi page. I renamed my page and we’ll see how that changes things. It should at least break their ability to find my site by just looking for my comments page.

Here’s a cool article about the tunes they play for the Rover missions. I hope they have an iTunes playlist on the Music store soon.