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Enable SNMP on Netgear DG834G

By on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | 4 Comments

If you have a DG834G ADSL router and wish to monitor it, there isn’t any options in the GUI interface to manage it via SNMP. Yes, you can configure it to respond to ICMP (PING) but what if you want more? After a bit of searching around, I found instructions to do it (as shown [...]

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Linksys WRT54G2 released

By on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | No Comments

Wireless internet access is great – most of the time. It saves the need for running wires through your house, but can be a bitch to set up, and can be affected by other devices that emit radio signals. Most new routers are expensive, high-performance affairs that use the 802.11n standard. But the ‘funky looking’ [...]

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Space Invaders turns 30

By on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | 8 Comments

I wouldn’t normally write about stuff like this, but I grew up with Space Invaders and I think it changed the video gaming world as we know it today. Well, it actually was the very beginning. Space Invaders? was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in June 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by [...]

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Google Maps Street View Hits Australia

By on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | No Comments

Google today has released street view in Australia, the third country to get it. The snapshots are taken by a fleet of cars fitted with special cameras that drive across the country, capturing images on every street corner and along every highway. Quite possibly you have seen them out on the streets. They are just [...]

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