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.

What's wrong with this picture

 

Why does the smaller device have so much more packaging?

Things I've seen that struck my fancy recently...

joseph arthur, bag is hot. now if he can actually get those tracks released.

Commuting to work in Winterthur

 

It's like living in some alternate version of the future...

Irish Taxi Service

 

One wonder's several months after this pictures was taking how the Irish real estate developer's that bankrolled this nonsense are now fairing... Things were teetering on the brink back in august.

Shopping for a new couch...

 

Probably not in Kansas anymore...

 

spotted in thailand...

A Fan of the n-gage qd....
 

saving my bacon as usual...

The vmware any-any patch...

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/26693

Why they can't commercially manage to track kernel releases is beyond me. Why I shuold have to rely on the community to bail out a company with the sort of market cap that vmware now has is entirely beyond me.

Nearly Useless POI data...

Yes there are some wireless hotspot in downtown Palo Alto. There really has to be a better way to represent them.

 

Wow a phone booth!

ISDN even...

hey wait what are those antennas on the top?

 

Sadly with the decline in the dollar...

We get the up market 1-series coupe while the rest of the world... Gets cute little diesel wagons with enough torque to pull stumps on the farm.

 

Yeah that's exactly what you go to japan for...

To see George W Bush on your cellphone...

 

Not very clear on the concept...

 

arpanet

 

Not enough pelicans.