Cali 2 NL

Well, school has kept me really busy recently, and if that weren’t enough, I’ve got a bunch of hardware projects going on around the house.  Some of them are fun.

First off, my new roomate moved in, and he’s got a nice big screen TV and Tivo.  We’ve been playing around with Tivo Desktop, transfering files and such on and off of the Tivo, allowing it to access our mp3’s and movies, and all sorts of other fun stuff.  I’ve also convinced him to add a second drive, which will be done as soon as we get the mounting bracket’s he ordered.  That may end up being a full post in the future.

My Macbook Pro also arrives today.  Well, technically it already arrived, but I was in the shower so I didn’t hear the doorbell.  To make things worse, I got to watch the FedEx truck drive away from the little window in my shower.  So sad.  Anyway, I’ll be picking it up tonight and play with MacOS X a bit before I try to repartition the drive and install Gentoo.

This frees up my Dell, which is headed over to my dad’s.  Since he lives 2 houses down the street, this will revive the 802.11 antenna project (the pictures are more interesting), which died when (or slightly before) my brother moved up to Sacramento.  When I went up to investigate why it had stopped working, I found the entire Linksys WAP 11 was completely corroded internally, I guess my home-made seals didn’t work out too well.

Regardless, I was rather impressed with how long the little guy held up (it was clear that he had been rusting for a very very long time), so I ordered 2 more of those guys on ebay.  This time I’m trying to get access to the whole house, not just the closest room, so I’m going to be using (at least) one of the 4 ultra-high-gain antenna’s which Dan over at oiccam gave me (thanks Dan!).

I’ll post more on the wifi thing as soon as I get my AP’s and figure out what I’m doing…