http://www.janitha.com A Strange Desire for Technology, Innovations, and Laziness Fri, 16 May 2008 03:58:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lot of people carry around battery powered electronics such as laptops, camera’s and cellphones. One problem with all of these is that you need to constantly be charging them or replacing the batteries. Another interesting characteristic of all of these items are that they move around a lot. For example ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/117 When I finally have a need and I am looking for a tool/system to accomplish that task, I tend to be extremely picky and very demanding of certain features. This happened when I finally made up my mind to consolidate all my photo’s in to one central system and organize ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/115 Ok I need a break from my finals studying. Just 5 minutes. Here is my to do list of things. Study for Finals - Just two more days Cisco Systems Internship - Again this summer, need to pack up and go Canon SD1000 - Play with the chdk firmware. WRT350N Bricked - Poor 802.11n ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/113 The other day I was trying to figure out how much I can do with accessing only one port without tripping IDS before that machine. Hiding a service or two services in one port. Lets take an example, it would make more sense. You have a server with only port ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/111 As a habit now, every time I stand up from the computer, I press the hotkey to lock the computer (yes, even when I am the only one around at home). It hit me, why not automate this. A sensor you can have on the chair that would lock the ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/110 Looks like it’s time for me do a total cleanup of my things, both virtual and in the physical world. Room Cleanup (load of empty boxes, anyone want any?) Door-Desk, two of them for the room New Book shelves, having a space issue now 3TB worth of data to be organized, and the countless ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/109 Captcha is a system widely used in web forms to differentiate between humans and bots. I won’t go into detail how it works but you can read it on Wikipedia. Many people try to defeat this system by writing very advanced character recognition software but there seems to be a ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/107 I got my hands on a bricked WRT350N router was trying different magic trying to flash a new firmware and get it working. I was trying to connect it to a serial console when I realized that on the WAN port in the back, on the opposite side of the ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/106 I did not put the effort before to keep a calendar of any sort on the computer before since it was a pain to get it to synchronize between the desktop computer, laptop, and if I am not near those two the calendar is unavailable… until I found a killer ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/102 I recently ordered something and had it ship through UPS. Once it had already shipped, I decided I want it shipped directly to my College Station address instead of my Houston address. I was not sure if this was possible, oo I was getting ready to go to the UPS ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/100 Large enterprises, banks and other places requiring very high security log on systems use multi-factor authentication. Multi-factor authentication is using multiple means of verifying if the person trying to log in to the system is the real person and not someone stealing credentials. For example a conventional single-factor authentication is ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/97 After struggling with the Intel Bad Axe 2 (D975XBX2) motherboard to get the secondary Marvell SATA controller to work with Fedore Core 7 Linux, I finally got it working. The motherboard has two on board SATA controllers, each with 4 ports, totalling 8 SATA ports. The parimary SATA controller is ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/99 If you are IBM Thinkpad user (T60, probably other models too) you know all too well how annoying the system beep can be, specially when you are on headphones (the beep always comes at the highest volume totally stealing my concentration). Usually comes when you press multiple keys at time, ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/94 Well not really scamming, but if you are trying to sell something and make a quick buck because you got it through a special promotion, make sure the people you advertise it doesn’t know about the promotion. Hey interns, I’m selling a brand new iPod nano silver 4gb for $160 and a ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/93 Ever thought that it would be great to get some of those premium cable TV channels for free? For example HBO or Starz. You must be thinking this is going to involve using a legal-shady box or some type of hack, but most of the time just asking works. Well ... http://www.janitha.com/archives/92