You make a script with a simple flat database to alert you when you need to get your cars smogged, because it’s easier to decide for myself when it should be done, rather than rely on the DMV postcard/email notification to work.

I’ve added it to my initial login shells so I see it once per newlogin per day. It’s relatively simple in design, and works well for those like me who find their memory isn’t quite as sharp as it once was.

< 1999 9-3 Convertible is PAST DUE (April 15th, 2017)!
= Can renew 2008 9-5 2.3T now!
> Can renew 2000 9-5 Aero on August 6th, 2017.
- 2008 9-3 Turbo X is not up for renewal for over 6 months.
- 2001 9-3 Convertible is not up for renewal for over 6 months.

I’ve coded the responses to be easily read. “Less Than” means overdue, an equal sign shows that it can be reregistered now, “Greater Than” for time in the future, and a minus for a time more than 6 months in the future.

The 1999 isn’t registered as it isn’t roadworthy- yet. It needs a new headgasket and is currently non-op.

 make[3] -C tools/firmware-utils compile
 make[3] -C tools/firmware-utils install
 make[3] -C tools/patch-image compile
 make[3] -C tools/patch-image install
 make[3] -C tools/findutils compile
 make[3] -C tools/findutils install
 make[3] -C tools/quilt compile
 make[3] -C tools/quilt install
 make[3] -C tools/padjffs2 compile
 make[3] -C tools/padjffs2 install
 make[3] -C tools/mm-macros compile
 make[3] -C tools/mm-macros install
 make[3] -C tools/cmake compile

Creating a ZBT-1326 compatible GL-iNet build, then one for WNDR-3800..

Not only do we have an incredible amount of added fees thanks to the idiots who manage Reno- with gas taxes over 20c higher than every other county bordering us, but we’re now paying more sales tax than Las Vegas.

Washoe County Effective April 1, 2017, the Sales and Use Tax rate for Washoe County increased from 7.725% to 8.265*%. *Clark County Effective April 1, 2017, the Sales and Use Tax rate for Clark County increased from 8.15% *to 8.25*%.

I seem to be carving out a nice little niche of repairing still-useful devices. Most recently, a friend said they wanted to turn a lower end router into a fileserver- which makes sense, really. Long gone are the necessities of hot and power hungry hardware to stream, save, and share.

I’ve got a WNR3500Lv2- and it had bad firmware flashed onto it. As usual, I broke out the PL2303 USB->TTL adapter, and was pleasantly surprised to find actual headers populated. Nice.

Not so nice is just how neutered the CFE build is. Even for NetGear, this is pretty bad. I performed a nvram erase, set a new board id, and reset it.. and lo and behold, there’s the missing NIC!

CFE for WNR3500Lv2 version: v1.0.9

Build Date: Fri May  6 11:54:17 CST 2011

Init Arena

Init Devs.

Boot partition size = 262144(0×40000)

NFLASH Boot partition size = 524288(0×80000)

et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.60.136

CPU type 0×19749: 480MHz

Tot mem: 131072 KBytes


Device eth0:  hwaddr 10-DA-43-90-1C-E2, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
        gateway not set, nameserver not set                                     

Startup canceled

CFE> ^C

Now that it has network functionality, I TFTP’d over the most recent firmware offered by NetGear, fed it a DD-WRT CHK enabled binary, then upgraded from there.

Every time Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” is on the radio (which is surprisingly at least weekly-when I have the radio on) I find myself remembering a question posed to me “What does a tailor have to do with ripping someone’s lungs out?”

It always just made sense to me that a tailor- who takes rather intimate measurements would have to be incredibly willful to take those of a werewolf. Warren has been gone over a decade now, so it’s far too late to ask.