Treg's blog

These days I’m testing the new upcoming Ubuntu Linux release called Edgy Eft. I find some weird shutdown SATA bug. When I’m shutting down the computer, I can hear that the SATA disk doesn’t spin down like it should be. After posting this on the forum and reporting the bug on launchpad (bug #63937), it seems to be an upstream kernel 2.6.17 bug. Let’s hope this is solved soon, cause the sound that the harddisk makes when it shuts down isn’t that nice.

I year ago, I decided to upgrade my wireless ADSL router (Dlink DSL-G604T) with some new firmware. Unfortunately the firmware was and is still up-to-date (firmware from 2004). I wanted some fixes and extra features so I searched on the Internet for new firmware. I found some newer UK firmware. After the upgrade, the router seemed to be dead. Nothing worked like it should be. With a telnet session, I succeeded to fix things and I could bring up the http server. Restoring some EU version firmware did the trick.

Recently, the source code of the software on the router has been released. Some people in Australia have been developing and bugfixing this software. At the moment I’m running the software successfully on my router. A great new feature of this soft ‘s the support for ADSL2+ connections. I hope this version runs as stable as the one before.

This evening, you can view a report (biography) about Ron Gonggrijp, one of the founders of the famous Dutch Internet provider XS4ALL. This reportage will be broadcasted on the Dutch television “Nederland 1” @ 22h50. For more information, please visit the specific KRO page.