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- January 26, 2010 – 2:03 am
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- By Dave
Came across this admittedly weird issue. Randomly over the past few months, I try to go to Facebook or Twitter and end up being redirected to another website, usually MySpace. See screenshot for an example of what I saw a few moments ago. This time, it just forwarded me to a Samuel Garcia (SR388) so I punched it into Google, and low and behold others are having this same exact issue! Facebook redirects to MySpace. They also posted a fix — flush the DNS cache on your local system via the command: ipconfig /flushdns So what could be causing this issue? I thought it might be some sort of DNS hijacking but everything I could check seemed OK. It happens to multiple computers on my network. Finally a comment on that threat points over to the Linksys forum about DNS issues with many others having the same problem. It appears that….
Categories: Site Updates
Tagged: DNS, facebook, hijack, myspace, redirect
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- December 24, 2009 – 9:56 am
- Author:
- By Dave
So it’s 4AM, but I woke up with some ideas about replacing ye olde Cable DVR box with a more efficient and more up to date version. It occurs to me that I am paying about $134/month for Cable TV, Internet and HBO that me and my family rarely do and never need to watch. Being laid up the past few days, I’ve been very intimate with Boxee and I totally think it is capable of replacing the set top box, most of which hasnt changed for the past 5-10 years. Lets take a look at my current setup. My $132 bill to Verizon breaks down like this: $52.99/mo for 20/5mbps FTTH Internet -$14.99/mo ‘Double Play’ TV/Internet Promo price break. $16.99/mo for HBO. We don’t watch it often, was mainly purchased to watch True Blood. Curb Your Enthusiasm was neat but now that it’s season is over there is no….
Categories: Site Updates
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- December 8, 2009 – 12:12 am
- Author:
- By Dave
My little army of wireless sensors is coming along nicely. Running some final battery tests and finishing up my paper/presentation on them. Micaz 2.4mhz motes from Crossbow, mib520 programming board and mts300 sensor boards.
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- October 27, 2009 – 9:50 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Google Voice just announced that it will officially support any existing phone number on its platform. This means that the hack that I posted previously is depreciated and you no longer need to use the “Do Not Disturb” option – and this fixes the annoying extra rings that callers would hear upon entering your voicemail. Steps to enable Google Voicemail on any number: Step 1: Enable in Settings The text “Activate Google voicemail for this phone” will show up for any “Mobile” number. If your phone supports call forwarding, change it to “Mobile” in the type of phone number to get this option to show up. After clicking “Activate Google voicemail for this phone”, it will prompt you for your carrier and then give you directions for enabling answer call forwarding for your phone. For AT&T it will be *004*<GOOGLE VOICE NUMBER>#. Step 2: Go directly to Voicemail This step….
Categories: Other Technology,Site Updates
Tagged: Google, phones, Voicemail
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- September 30, 2009 – 1:35 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Was poking around ServerFault this morning and came across a great one-liner command using curl which will tell you the device’s external facing IP address. This probably isn’t anything new but it was something that I just haven’t thought of until now. curl icanhazip.com Icanhazip.com is just a simple output of the IP address of the accessor, so it is really clean and simple, just how I like it. It is really easy to set up by yourself if you have a domain not doing anything. In index.php, place: $ip=@$REMOTE_ADDR; echo "$ip";
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- September 10, 2009 – 10:12 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 Graphing via Wireless Sensor Network to a Mobile Internet Device” – my demo device being the iPhone. The paper as presented is below: Sensor Graphing via Wireless Sensor Network to a Mobile Internet Device by David Drager
Categories: Hardware,Other Technology,Site Updates
Tagged: paper, presentation, published, sensor networks, wireless sensors
