Technology

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Linksys E3000 Tomato USB Firmware and PPTP

Posted on 27th May 2012

For many years, I have used routers that were DD-WRT compatible for the additional configuration options the 3rd party firmware provides. When I purchased a Linksys E3000 last year, I immediately installed DD-WRT in place of the stock Linksys firmware. I experienced some stability issues (later found out that it was due to high interference in the 2.4ghz spectrum) and had switched to the Tomato USB firmware. I immediately loved the interface which felt clean and organized. Since it was based off of the DD-WRT project, I knew that it would be just as customizable.

With the addition of iDevices and the constant demand to access home resources at home from the road, I decided that a VPN would be the best way to secure these resources as it is already supported on iDevices. PPTP was the best choice since these devices supported it out of the box. Here, I will run over the installation method to get a working VPN connection through the Tomato USB firmware.

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Intel i5 “Sandy Bridge” OSX Lion Install on Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3

Posted on 21st January 2012

I came to a point where I felt that my simple Intel e2200 Hackintosh system was in need of an upgrade. I had been wanting to look into building either an i5 or i7 Sandy Bridge system. When a local retailer decided to put the i5-2600k and i7-2600k on sale, I could not resist the temptation and found myself researching for the perfect motherboard.

Here, I will outline the software build from start to finish, and show how easy it is to build a i5 Sandy Bridge Hackintosh with OSx Lion.

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TDSS Fake Partition and Internet Redirect

Posted on 1st December 2011

Anyone that does tech support on a workstation level, may be familiar with a strain of a Windows viruses known as TDSS. TDSS is not commonly able to be detected by most anti-virus scanners out there, and can be contracted through a bad web link or even attached to an email. A brief overview of TDSS can be found over at the Trend Micro website. Trend Micro is known for both consumer retail produts, as well as business level products that deal with malware, spam, and firewalls. Kaspersky, another anti-virus product, has a free tool that is able to remove most versions of the TDSS virus called TDSSKILLER. This free utility is quick to find and destroy the TDSS virus, but a new strain has surfaced that has to be removed manually.

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WordPress and Dresses

Posted on 29th May 2011

www.abbyandsean.com

Visit Abby and Sean dot Com

I just finished the major coding for the website: http://www.abbyandsean.com. This is a wedding website based off WordPress that I made to help celebrate the coming wedding of Abby and I. I also can officially say, even to know it has been up and running for around 2 months, that http://www.dersoldat.org is close to being done as well.

Abby and Sean dot com has a completely custom wordpress theme while Der Soldat dot Org is using lightword which is found in the wordpress themes section.