The Verizon Actiontec GT704WG Wireless Gateway pictured below is an incredibly engineered piece of FAIL.
If Verizon attempts to send you this for your DSL service, run away from this piece of hardware as fast as you can. There are two major problems I have with this hardware:
it uses Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for securing the [...]
Also tagged DSL, Technical, Verizon, WirelessI have updated this blog and its underpinnings to WordPress 2.3.3. There was a security problem related to registration-enabled WordPress installations, but I opted to update my installation as opposed to installing the security fix.
The upgrade is an easy one to perform, and I suggest you install it if you are a bit behind on [...]
Last night, I spent some time taking care of some housecleaning on my blog. Here's a brief summary of what I did last night.
Installed Bad Behavior Plugin
I was getting annoyed at the occasional trackback spammer linking to a post--either merely trackbacking to certain posts or completely taking my content to use as a post [...]
With my new work CrackBerry, I am trying to get it to work the way I work. I realize some of this may some form of a "pipe dream" for me.
One of the things that has bedeviled me is making the email notification a bit more infrequent. I tend to disable most mail notifications on [...]
I finally completed one of the tasks that has been on the backburner for some time in Stately Thomas Manor--recovering data from a formatted hard drive. It went surprisingly well, and the rest of the tale is below.
In my old, now passed, desktop workstation, I had a SCSI card installed. Connected to that [...]
