BPI inside

Month: February 2006

  • Clever way of earning money with free software

    Just found a quite clever way of producing free software without starving in poverty. On DonationCoder.com they are offering some quite clever little tools (like the tiny FindRun Robot) for free download yet encouraging the user to donate any amount of money.

    They do this by just requiring a free license to open the software for 6 months. After this time another 6-month license is required. Finally after a year of free use the user can get an unlimited license for free again. On the other side if you donate even the smallest amount of money you can get the unlimited license and many other benefits instantly, forever.

    I like this concept and it again throws me into thinking of creating a PayPal account for such small things.

    Other things which already have pushed my mind into this directions are for example my favourite webcomic, Dominic Deegan, where you get a nice desktop wallpaper each month for as little as 1$ or many of those little or not-so-little OpenSource software things which I use all the time.

  • Meeting tips

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  • Taking over responsibility

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  • Hacking the router

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  • Spam insanity

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  • The worlds first oil-free economy

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  • Linux and broadband progress

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  • MacGyver Returns – A Narrow Escape

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  • Broadband arrived

    Yeah, finally. Last Thursday my broadband order was delivered.

    Set it up using the ADSL-modem which was delivered three days earlier with some slight problems. The problems arised because I don’t like to start those "wizard" setup tools which are bundled with every providers connection and install crap all over the system. So I had to manually set up some things but the modem refused to work because it had no templates(?) installed. Had to fire up the providers setup-tool but canceled execution after it had the missing templates transfered. Strange stuff.

    Well nevertheless. Yesterday I purchased a Netgear DG834G ADSL modem and wireless router and installed it instead of the providers modem. Worked completely flawlessly and I was online with the new hardware within minutes.

    Later in the evening I upgraded the firmware on the router from version 2.10.22 to 3.01.25, which I found on Netgears DG834v2 Support Download Page.

    And since it runs embedded Linux and the source is availabe I’m looking forward to hack the crap out of it.