justinmaccarthy

I finally got my linksys WRT54G router to play nice with my Zyxel P623R-T1 modem.
I wanted to use the Zyxel *just* as a modem and let my Linksys do everything else. Took a little figuring out.

The key is to the get the Zyxel into Bridge mode. Via telnet

1. Go to menu 1, change “Route=No”, “Bridge=Yes”
2. Go to menu 3.2, change “DHCP=No”
3. Go to menu 4, change “Encapsulation=RFC1483″, “NAT=None”
4. Go to menu 11.1, Change “Bridge=Yes”, “Route=No”

I also installed the Sveasoft firmware on my WRT54G. Signal seems better..

With all the buzz about google possible entry into calendars Jemery has a good list of requirements for same..

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/004282.html

I came across a couple of a couple of handy preference panels for OS X recently.

“More Internet” is a cool little panel that allows you to configure default applications for various protocols, most commonly mailto: or http:
Down load it here,
http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/MoreInternet/

RCEnvironment, is a little panel that allows you to edit your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Not rocket science, but handy all the same. You can get it here..

http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/

Both freeware, not GPL unfortunatly.

My next task was to install Java and Eclipse onto Debian. Now this turns out to be a little complicated because there isn’t a apt-get package for Java. Also the apt-get package for Eclipse is not in the “sarge” build, which is what I’m running.

Understanding why this is an issue is requires an understanding of apt-get. For apt-get to figure out the dependances for a package, it needs to know its installed. So just downloading the jdk/jre and unzipping it will work but you will break apt-get. To solve this you need to install some Dummy packages. I found out here (Java on Debian) and
here (Debian notes) how to do that.

Next Eclipse.The Debian Eclipse packages are in the unstable sources. I’m running sarge, but I want eclipse and only the Eclipse package from unstable. To get the latest and greatest version of a package you can use apt-pinning. There is a beginners guide here.

I was diving into bash and perl on my PowerBook 12″ when I hit a slight problem. Where is the Hash key on the keyboard?

One answer is ALT – 3. Maybe there are others?