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Before installing Tomato, I thought DD-WRT was the best router firmware there is.  But Tomato is as good as DD-WRT and scores on usabil­ity and QOS as well, two areas where DD-WRT needs improvement.

The Asus 520gu gives you the best bang for the buck. It looks sleek in white as opposed to the ugly black and blue Linksys ‘brick’, has a USB 2.0 port which can be hooked up to a printer or an exter­nal stor­age or both via a USB hub and comes with 16MB RAM and 4MB flash. (more…)

The Pana­sonic BL-C131A comes with a win­dows setup CD to con­fig­ure the net­work cam­era.  But you really don’t need a PC to con­fig­ure this cam­era.  This is a howto on how to con­fig­ure this sur­veil­lance cam­era using a Mac.  This tuto­r­ial will work with a PC as well, in case you lost the setup CD!

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Leave my Obama sticker alone!

When car thieves stole my GPS, I was pissed. When they struck again and stole my Obama car mag­net, I knew I had to do some­thing.  Who knew crooks had polit­i­cal affiliations!

Prior to this inci­dent, I knew noth­ing about sur­veil­lance sys­tems. But this gave me an oppor­tu­nity to research this area and apply my new found knowl­edge to serve one pur­pose — watch over my car! This, and sub­se­quent posts are a brain dump of what I learnt about low cost home sur­veil­lance systems.

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