My new laptop arrived this week — a Dell Latitude x200. And it’s marvellous. Wonderfully lightweight, good battery life for such a small box, good keyboard and a really clear bright screen. After…

Matt Biddulph in Hackdiary

Jan 20, 2003

Cron is my TiVo

One thing I’d like to do with a silent PC is make a homebrew TiVo-alike. Well, I would if I watched any TV. Which I don’t. But still, the idea interests me beyond any use I’d actually make of it. Anyway…

Matt Biddulph in Hackdiary

Jan 7, 2003

Making a silent, tiny, diskless PC

For a while I’ve wanted a home PC that I can leave on all the time without the noise bugging me — I’ve become quite sensitive to machine noise over years of working with computers. I’d use it to play MP3s off my network, then I’d think up other projects. It wouldn’t…

Matt Biddulph in Hackdiary

Jan 2, 2003

MAC-address logging/blocking for linux iptables

Here’s a little script I wrote that checks incoming wireless requests for a known MAC address. I’ve been using it on my Linux gateway/router/wireless-bridge.