Update: iMac wireless w/ DD-WRT

Impressive, I boot up the iMac this morning and it immediately connected to my non-SSID broadcasting wireless network. A sign of good things to come, I hope... If so, I may have to begin writing an apology to Apple.

Just Installed DD-WRT

I just hacked my Linksys router and installed dd-wrt so I could boost the signal strength of the device. Btw, for anyone who has been considering doing this but has not because you were afraid of bricking your router, I had no issues with the install process. I have a WRT54G v2 router which is pretty old and as such very well supported so your mileage may vary, but I had no issues.

I have been suspecting for a while now that my rants at Apple have been misplaced and that the true nature of my wireless problems have more to do with the distance between the new iMac and the router. We'll see, but either way dd-wrt has all kinds of neat features that the stock Linksys firmware did not have so I will have plenty to play with this evening.

New Look for the Blog

I didn't really like how narrow the template I was using was so I'm playing around with a new look. So far so good.

Tabs v. Spaces

It's unfortunate that it has been so long since I last posted but I have been really busy both personally and professionally. I re-ran across this today as I was searching for a solid PHP mode for Emacs (I finally ditched Eclipse and PHPEclipse as my PHP development environment as it was too slow and my threshold for pain was finally surpassed).

http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html

Absolutely classic! Let the religious wars begin...

Enjoy and Happy Valentine's day.