Computers put the Cylons out of work

This is one of the funniest pictures I've seen in a long, long time:

One of the few times I've actually L'ed OL when seeing something online.

Posted by wee on 02/15/2006 at 12:17 AM | Main Page | Category: Geek Stuff | Comments (8)
Linksys WRT54G version numbers

I've been aiming to set up my router with a special version of Linux. It makes it handier for certain things. Trouble is, the newest routers fron Linksys are hobbled. You need formware version 4 or below to do anything special with them. The best way to tell which version is which is by looking at the first four characters of the serial numbers (which can be found on the bottom of the retail box). Here's the breakdown:

CDF0 = wrt54g v1.0
CDF1 = wrt54g v1.0
CDF2 = wrt54g v1.1
CDF3 = wrt54g v1.1
CDF5 = wrt54g v2.0
CDF7 = wrt54g v2.2
CDF8 = wrt54g v3.0
CDF9 = wrt54g v3.1
CDFA = wrt54g v4.0
CDFB = wrt54g v5.0

Anyway, maybe I'll head out to the Circuit Shitty and pick one up for playing with. And now I have this handy reference for when I do! Ain't that just something?

Posted by wee on 02/12/2006 at 01:02 PM | Main Page | Category: Geek Stuff | Comments (0)
The ski trip was fun, and I am in pain

We had our choice of activities, and I decided to do tubing on the Google ski trip. My knees aren't that great, and I figured tubing would be low-impact enough.

I was up there doing the tube thing for about 3 1/2 hours, and had a really good time (even if I was by myself). Toward the end I was doing the running leap sort of thing, and that was fun. Though I'm now very, very sore in strange places. My neck hurts, for one, and my shoulders aren't feeling too swell.

All this pain was probably exacerbated from having to walk back up the hill all the time. My cable kept getting unhitched from the tow line about halfway through (there was this little bump in the snow, and it would unhitch then) and I could never manage to connect back on. So I walked. The people managing the area kinda looked at me funny. When they had to go up, they took the tow. I told them I wasn't being macho, I just had a dodgy cable hook thingy. With no other tubes available, I was out of options. Walking up slushy snow at 8,200 feet dragging a big truck inner tube sucks.

All in all I did about 24-30 runs down the little hill. Maybe more, I didn't really count. Towards the end I sat on the tube (vs. my normal "Superman" style of tubing) and took a video with my camera while I went.

I wish the tube run was longer. I'd have been happy going down the entire mountain. I'm going back, and doing skiing this time.

Pictures are going up someplace later.

Posted by wee on 02/04/2006 at 08:28 PM | Main Page | Category: Travelogue | Comments (4)