randomeclipse

The possibilities are endless...

Hello and welcome to my humble, yet hopefully interesting site. You will find quite a lot of information on the games I play, things I enjoy doing and what I'm currently getting up too.

Note: This is my first kind of site I've had a go at coding (via notepad) myself so there may be a few glitches.

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Tomato anyone?

I wanted to take a few minutes and post about Tomato Firmware which I’ve installed on my Linksys wireless router. Since my router much like some of the linksys routers uses open source technology these things are able to be hacked with better software, all which is totally legal. Of course this voids any warranty one might have but when you pay £40 for a router I don’t think you’re worrying too much about a warranty. With the Tomato Firmware installed my £40 wireless router turns into a £400 wireless router. It provides things like VPN capability, DDNS, bandwidth monitoring/Usage Graphs, QoS, various wireless and general LAN tools, and enterprise grade wireless security. I’ve also found it to be much more stable than the DD-WRT firmware most people, myself included, have been putting on their routers.

I’ll touch on a few of the things I like most. Like I said before it’s stable. The DD-WRT firmware just seemed to lock up all the time on me, it also was kicking my parents computer off the network all the time. Since adding the new firmware to the router I’ve to have a complaint from them in that department. The wireless security features are top notch. It allows everything from WEP (why?) to WPA 1 and 2, using Pre-Shared-Keys or a radius server if you really need that kind of security. It also allows for mixed modes, as in allowing WPA clients and WPA 2 clients, with the highest of encryption schemes for you to choose from. If range was the problem I could always increase the power to the antenna, another feature provided by the Tomato firmware.

One more thing before I go. I wanted to mention the bandwidth monitor/graphs provided by the router. This feature allows one to view current, daily, monthly, yearly graphs and charts of all bandwidth used. The downside to this feature is that if you reboot the router for any reason, power loss, your parents think unplugging and plugging the machine back in will make their Internet work, whatever the reason, you’ll lose all your logs. Word to the wise, backup your current logs via the handy backup feature on the router before changing your logs to be stored on a share. Luckily I thought to do this, because current logs aren’t transferred when changing where they are stored. In addition, there’s a check box under where you select where to store your logs, make sure that is checked to create a new storage file on your share. Once that is done just restore the backup you made previously and you’re good to go.

Well that’s what I’ve been looking at this month

Fancy a delve?

Well in the next few months we are going to be blessed with the first expansion for LoTRO, The Mines of Moria. All the reviews are going bonkers about it as its going to give every type of player something to get their teeth in to. We shall see though. A good article I found can be read at WarCry. I'm just praying to the Hobbit gods that they'll allow us to become one of the two new classes, but I'm not getting my hopes up :(

Monkeys

Whilst surfing the web last night I stumbled on a hilarious website by the name of monkeysuicide. Not what it sounds like, honest. The site is a blog, which depicts the PG Tips monkey in very precarious situations, for example being killed by a desert eagle .50 or my favourite, death by Microwave. It may just be that I have a rather sick sense of humour but I found it to be a really funny site and I recommend you take a look.

LotRO at Connect