I was playing recently with Ubuntu 10.10 alpha3 and Fedora 14 alpha1 and I’ve noticed a common bug: if you try to play flash video it plays very fast and usually without the sound. Sometimes when playing video I see that my web camera is turning on, thus making me to think that it is [...]
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How To Install and Upgrade Oleg’s Firmware on an ASUS RT-N16
This guide covers the installation and upgrade of Oleg’s firmware for the ASUS RT-N16 using firmware version 1.9.2.7-10-rtn (experimental). The recovery process is also documented should you need it. It is based on Wengi’s HowTo for the ASUS WL-HDD (http://wl500g.info/archive/index.php/t-10307.html). Thanks Wengi! Important: Do this at your own risk. I exclude any liability. This HowTo [...]
Kubuntu 10.04 x64: no sound in flash, while Amarok is able to play sound
Last time I use only 64-bit OSes, and normally I have no problems with Windows, while with Linux usually things don’t go that easy. I’ve noticed one tendency with Linux: if distribution is less popular (for example, Ubuntu with KDE and x64) it is more raw and accordingly, it has more bugs. I replaced recently [...]
Asus RT-N16:Enforcing passwords in ssh & http page
My router has open ssh port so that I can connect from Internet to home, and recently I’ve noticed in logs that someone is scanning my ports: Jun 5 15:13:49 dropbear[745]: login attempt for nonexistent user from 187.141.73.66:47311 Jun 5 15:13:50 dropbear[745]: exit before auth: Disconnect received It seems like some one is looking for [...]
Asus RT-N16: how to Wake On Lan machine from the Internet
Sometimes while being away from home there is a need to access data on a home computer. If there is no one at home to turn on the computer, one may use method described below: turning on the computer through the Internet using a utility called wakelan. The idea is simple – just ssh to [...]
Network printer disappears after reboot in Windows 7
Recently I’ve discovered an interesting problem related to my printer Epson BX300F. Initially, the printer does not support printing via the remote print server. It works only via USB. But you can change the printer settings by changing its transport from USB to TCP / IP and specify the address of the router to which [...]
Asus RT-N16: impressions after using it for a while
It’s been a couple of weeks since I bought RT-N16 and during this time I’ve accumulated some experience. The most important thing that I could understand for this time – firmware from Asus – sucks, because even though it provides minimalistic features it is very unstable and does not utilize the power of router’s hardware! [...]
Asus RT-N16: how to set up ipkg and additional software on router
Update: I am not using Asus firmware anymore, it is very unstable and buggy, so if I write in my article below “stable” read it as “unstable” Note: In this post I am talking about installing ipkg on the native firmware from Asus version 1.0.1.2. With dd-wrt, oleg’s firmware there are no problems to install [...]
Asus RT-N16: first impressions
My wi-fi router (Dlink DI-524) worked very bad last time, especially under load – hangs, disappeared wi-fi network, etc … and I decided to buy a decent replacement:). A few days of review in the market and I bought quite cheap in my area RT-N16 which seduced me with the following parameters: 1. A powerful [...]
Google Android on Samsung S8000 Jet
Before you read this post, answer a simple question. Are you an owner of Samsung S8000 Jet? Are happy with it? The official advertisment of S8000 is “smarther than smarphone”. But in fact, it is dump and usless: you can’t run anything except Java & Javascript applications. Which seems to be pretty limited. Moreover, on [...]