Tomato on WRT54GL: LED shows WIFI status

Something I wanted to do since ages. My wireless router WRT54GL running the Tomato firmware has a button on the front, which can be used to toggle WIFI on and off. The router has also a rather visible LED indicator, behind the button, that is unfortunately…

Database Issue

I had some database issues 2 weeks ago, therefore I lost a couple of comments. Sorry guys. I hope it will stay stable now.

Cheers!

Pidgin Status Update from Twitter

Just figured out how to get Twitter update the pidgin status (e.g. GTalk, Jabber, ICQ, MSN, etc.). For that, you need to install a pidgin plug-in written in Perl. Here is a small howto about it (as the Perl stuff was a bit tricky):

Posting from the iphone

Testing the wordpress application on the iPhone. It seems quite easy to post something. Apparently it works also on a self-hosted wordpress instance.

Flock for Blogging

Just trying the Flock browser for posting a blog news. It’s great. It’s about like writing an e-mail, with a good blog integration, where you can define tags, categories and that kind of news-related things. Really cool. Much quicker than the web interface. ;)

Green Server II

I published some time ago a news regarding reducing the power consumption of my home server to 53 W. There was some open issues like how to reduce the consumption further.

Regarding this, I finally simply decided to switch off the server automatically every night using a…

Googling his credit card number

According to the free newspaper “news” of today (Zurich, Switzerland) page 15, the computer-science Professor Kieron O’Hara, which is concerned about the loss of privacy in the internet age, is advising the editor in the interview to “google regularly one’s name, phone…