Zack of All Trades » Business http://zackofalltrades.com … and master of, um… let me get back to you on that… Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How slow is a floppy? http://zackofalltrades.com/2009/12/how-slow-is-a-floppy/ http://zackofalltrades.com/2009/12/how-slow-is-a-floppy/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:22:07 +0000 Zack Williams http://zackofalltrades.com/?p=157 This slow:

# dd if=dban-1.0.7_i386.ima of=/dev/disk3
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 192.277221 secs (7669 bytes/sec)

That’s over 3 minutes, using a USB floppy drive connected my MacBook Pro.

(I needed a copy of DBAN on floppy so I could erase an ancient 60Mhz Pentium)

]]> http://zackofalltrades.com/2009/12/how-slow-is-a-floppy/feed/ 0 Been a while… http://zackofalltrades.com/2006/12/been-a-while/ http://zackofalltrades.com/2006/12/been-a-while/#comments Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:18:46 +0000 Zack Williams http://zackofalltrades.com/?p=75 Wow, 6 months… I really should post more.

I’ve been busy. Really busy. Busy to the point that I’m worn out and feel like going to be a hermit on some mountaintop somewhere.

So, business is going well. I’m still trying to find health insurance, but hopefully that should be wrapped up by the end of the year.

I replaced my car with a Toyota Matrix M-Theory. Pictures coming soon. Going to get the windows tinted tomorrow.

I’m going to Golf N’ Stuff tomorrow, for my birthday. It’ll be just like when I was 8!

That’s enough of that. I’ll post more soon. Back to the grind!

]]> http://zackofalltrades.com/2006/12/been-a-while/feed/ 1 WRT54G rude awakening http://zackofalltrades.com/2005/11/wrt54g-rude-awakening/ http://zackofalltrades.com/2005/11/wrt54g-rude-awakening/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:31:43 +0000 Zack Williams http://zackofalltrades.com/2005/11/wrt54g-rude-awakening/ With their release of the WRT54G version 5, Linksys, has neutered their quite popular and easily hackable router.

Yesterday I visited a custmer who had purchased new WRT54G version 5, and it was a rude awakening. They downsized the hardware (half the RAM and ROM), and removed features – it no longer has WDS. The router now runs VxWorks, not Linux like the previous version, and there is no replacement firmware available. Configuration and setup was very flaky as well- I had to reset it several times to get it working right.

Sveasoft (a well known 3rd party firmware creation group) has more information on this model.

The solution? Buy the WRT54GS (now to version 4), which can take replacement firmware, still runs linux, and has quadruple the memory and rom space as the WRT54G v5.

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