Wrestling the Penguin

Time to get this blog going again.

I’ve “made the switch” to os x since my last post over a year ago. Expect to see a lot of mac-centric content going forward, as I learn more. 

FAT/VFAT doesn’t support groups, and doesn’t support modified time recording to the second, only minute

1. instead of -a ( -rlptoDg) use just -rlptoD (removes the ‘g’)
2. add –modify-window 120 (seconds)

For backing up user dirs that do not match the external permissions, use “-rltD”. vFAT doesn’t do multiuser when mounted under linux

FAT isn’t case sensitive, so “Folder” and “folder” on the source will collide on destination. Avoid this naming on the source side

I couldn’t find a clean way to support multiple WordPress blogs under a single site domain name, all using a single installation of the WordPress application. So, I came up with my own.

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Well, I cancelled my subscription to sveasoft today. Sveasoft makes a replacement firmware for the Linux-based Linksys WRT54G-series wireless routers. There are some nice bells and whistles that Sveasoft adds, but to be honest I used very few of them and found the router to be less stable when running Sveasoft’s firmware. Their release cycle for new builds/functionality has also been extremely slow.

Last week I installed Talisman/Basic v1.2, and from then on my wireless link would drop after 5-10 minutes and required a reboot of the router to restore. All my settings were lost during the upgrade, even though I followed the official upgrade path.

I’ve downgraded back to Talisman/Basic v1.1 which has been pretty solid for me over the past year. I might change back to the Linksys stock firmware, since all I use from Talisman is QoS and sshd.

There are a number of free WRT firmware solutions out there that are much more mature now than they were when I first purchased ($20) the Sveasoft firmware a few years ago. See the Wikipedia entry for WRT54G for more details.

New blog, new look. Next step: bringing in the content from the old site.

This site is primarily concerned with documenting hacks, complex setups, and useful learnings from my experiences with Linux.

I might talk about my life too, but it’s unlikely. I’m not that much of a narcissist.