Pimp my T5725

Yesterday my ordered HP Thin Client T5725 [http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3221863.html] arrived. The clue is, Debian sarge [http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/] is and no moving parts (no noise) are inside. It's a really nice thin client and it can be…

Serial console with VMWare

In your config file of virtual machine you need the following: # grep serial openwrt.vmx serial0.present = "TRUE" serial0.fileType = "pipe" serial0.fileName = "./serial1" serial0.pipe.endPoint = "server" serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE" Redirect output to stdio or a port: # socat /serial1 >

OpenWRT 0.9 / X-WRT 2.75

Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS [http://blog.waja.info/2006/06/27/we-got-some-linksys-wrtsl54gs-imported-from-us/] to OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 0.9 with X-WRT [http://www.x-wrt.org] 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it,…

Hacking google-highlight plugin

Today I found a nice plugin for highlighting search strings from referrer called google-highlight [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/google-highlight/], when coming from a search engine. The problem was, when the site includes a substring of $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] it was highlighted ... maybe not what you want. Here is the…