Archive for March 19th, 2007

Beef up your wireless router with OpenWRT

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Josh Kuo has an interesting article about giving your old Linksys a new lease on life with the OpenWRT project.

Some of the options after installing OpenWRT:

  • Install asterisk
  • VoIP
  • router/firewall on steroids with nmap, snort, and tcpdump
  • VPN with openvpn
  • Wireless hotspot with chilispot, FreeRadius and WPA.
  • All-purpose office server with DHCP, cups, lighthttpd, NTP

OpenWRT is not officially released – its current version is Release Candidate 6.

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Rumor: Apple in talks with Miglia about DVR capabilities?

Monday, March 19th, 2007

When Apple TV was launched, arguably the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t record your own shows with it. Now it seems Apple is thinking about doing a HD DVR, but the limitation seems to be the internal 40Gb hard disk.

Enter the USB ports on the Apple TV. What if you could hook up an external hard disk? Miglia seems to provide the functionality Apple is looking for. However, making iTunes recognize that external USB drive may means some serious software integration, and it wouldn’t be in Apple’s best interest to leave Miglia completely independent.

Sources: The Apple Blog, Blackfriars, and MaxDailyNews.

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