Category Archives: Hardware

Sensor Graphing via Wireless Sensor Network to a Mobile Internet Device 0

I wrote this paper during this past spring semester at West Chester University, for a class in the Computer Science department. My paper was accepted and published in the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks which was held on July 13-16 in Las Vegas, NV. The title of the paper is “Sensor [...]

Use Google Voice for your Voicemail with Any Phone, Any Provider 36

Update 10/27/2009: Google Voice now supports adding voicemail to any old cell phone number without the “Do not disturb” trick. Simply go into ‘Settings’, Enter the ‘Phones’ tab and then click ‘Activate Google voicemail on this phone’.  It will give you directions on call forwarding, which are the same as below, customized for your provider. [...]

How to Install SNMP on Tomato Router Firmware and Graph Traffic with Cacti 5

You’ve flashed your old WRT54G or other vanilla router with the Tomato firmware. This itself turns your router into a lean, mean routing machine with QOS, SSH and more, but let’s say we want to take it a bit further. What it we want to get some more stats out of it?
In order to do [...]

Cricket Broadband Review (A600 Modem) 39

I’ve been on vacation for the past few days, and prior to this trip I decided I wanted to stay connected wherever I was going – and the new broadband offerings from Cricket Wireless looked to be the perfect solution.
I was looking for something that did not involve signing a contract, but Verizon, Sprint and [...]

How To Turn Off Your Monitor Via Command Line in Ubuntu 4

As previously written on this blog, I have set up a display in our lobby at work to display the day’s current events and meetings using Ubuntu and a tiny PC. Since this is a display which is on all day, the screensaver and monitor blanking (and other Energy Star features) are all turned off.
Under [...]