Monthly Archives: August 2007

EaKiu: Eye Candy for the Wi-Spy

By Ken | Published: August 7, 2007
While at WWDC John and Daniel turned me on to EaKiu. Its a cool piece of software for the Wi-Spy 2.4Ghz USB Spectrum Analyzer. It touts some pretty cool 3D graphs. Unfortunately its OS X only. For Windows you can use manufacturer provided software, and for Linux you can use Dragorn’s software. Which both sport [...]
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Wifi in the wall: Karo WEJ-11G

By Ken | Published: August 3, 2007
At work we just carrying this cool new device, an access point that fits in a wall box. Looks like it would be great for outfitting apartment buildings and/or condos with wifi coverage. It supports all the usual AP/Bridging/WDS, POE, SSL web management etc… Even supports remote syslog and SNMP.
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Learn something new every day

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
Usually in a bash script when I want to parse a file line by line I do something like this: exec < foo.txt while read LINE; do SOMEVAR=$SOMEVAR,$LINE done This evening I was writing a bash wrapper for debootstrap to automate the building of chroot environments and for some reason I chose to stray away from my norm and [...]
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Updated Pyramid LiveCD Installer

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
I mentioned in this email a little while back that I released a new Pyramid LiveCD Installer with the 1.0b5 version of Pyarmid. This CD provides a simple method for boot strapping a Soekris net45XX/net48XX single board computer. Some models accept normal compact flash cards for the operating system media in which case you could easily [...]
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