So, you think you have a figurehead?

 

Fat T-Mobile G1 vs Skinny G1

 

3.7v * 2.6ah = 9.62 watt hours (enough)

Signs of civilization...

On the way home from the Egypt/Israel Trip...

 

sundial 7/12

About noon...

 

I wonder what they use it for...

When it's pointed below the horizon...

 

Adding milter greylist to a FreeBSD install

Details: here

Looks to become a regular part of my default mailserver installs:

(sendmail + clamav milter + milter greylist) + procmail local delivery + spamassassin

Always more than one way to do things...

In addition to the ancien technique of cvsup FreeBSD seems to now prefer the expedient approach of portsnap.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-keep-freebsd-system-upto-date.html

The following:

# portsnap fetch
# portsnap update
# portmanager -u -l

Will pretty much do it, noting that the fetch is around 60MB.

In case anyone is actually curious about the hardware contents of the asus eee 1000he

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

Where to Buy that replacement bezel for your Cisco 2600...

And of course a new octo-serial cable...

cableskit.com

Magic incantations for FreeBSD machines racked in distant datacenter

Loader.conf

console="comconsole,vidconsole"

you need console on serial for your terminal server. remote hands could really use console on vga for when they plug in the crash cart.

FreeBSD handbook serial serial console howto

rc.conf

fsck_y_enable="YES"

Please fsck after an unclean shutdown, instead of requiring intervention.

Android resources...

Android unleased - has the key instructions for downgrading, rooting and then upgrading android notably:

downgrade the thing

getting root

upgrading to a new still rooted firmware

The whole goal of this exercise being to be able to use your android as a wireless access-point.

android tethering with iptables

more detail:

xda developers


Wiki where this stuff is apparently collecting.

android wiki

Pinout for cisco style modular 9 pin female to rj45 jack

I can never remember or find the proper one so here goes:

1 - empty
2 - yellow
3 - black
4 - orange
5 - green
6 - brown
7 - blue
8 - white
9 - empty

Put two of these back to back with a rolled over rj45 serial cable and you have a null modem cable. one of them and you have a Cisco console cable... Put on the end of a 8 port hydra and plug directly into the console of a pc.