Author Archives: bkero

Routerstation Pro Backfire Nightlies!

Posted on 20100804 by bkero

That’s right boys and girls. I’ve started compiling RouterStation Pro OpenWRT nightly builds for all punks who like to live on the edge. From my testing these images are rather stable, and aren’t prone to consistent or serious issues. Since … Continue reading →

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Upgrading GuruPlug Kernels

Posted on 20100804 by bkero

I recently had more time to investigate my earlier problems with the GuruPlug.  The problem was discovered by some people on the plugcomputer.org forum.  The problem stock U-Boot is that is incorrectly reports the arcNumber.  The solution then, is to … Continue reading →

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Defcon Badge Hackery

Posted on 20100801 by bkero

Some of the OSUOSL employees attended the recent DefCon 18 conference.  One of the more uncommon features was the conference badge. In addition to being a ticket for entry into the conference,  it’s also a hackable piece of hardware complete … Continue reading →

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Restoring GuruPlugs

Posted on 20100520 by bkero

I’ve recently taken ownership of a GuruPlug, and naturally the first thing I tried to do when I got it was to install Gentoo on it.  I first went to build a kernel using the GuruPlug patches on a vanilla … Continue reading →

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RouterStation Pro OpenWRT upgrade

Posted on 20100510 by bkero

In an effort to upgrade my network from the aging–and failing WRT54G’s, I purchased a RouterStation Pro.  A RouterStation Pro is an embedded Linux board with some impressive hardware specs.  The part that appealed to me was the 3 Mini-PCI … Continue reading →

Posted in embedded, hardware, openwrt, osuosl, router, routerstation, routerstation pro, subversion | 3 Comments

Chrome private browsing mode flawed

Posted on 20100502 by bkero

My friend chizu just brought it to my attention that the private browsing mode “Incognito” in Google Chrome has a serious flaw.  If you use the browser’s zoom functionality to increase the size of pictures or text, the browser will … Continue reading →

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Munin-cron overlap fix

Posted on 20100430 by bkero

Recently I’ve migrated my munin instance onto a Linode virtual machine. Having fewer resources was a potential source of problems. One of the problems that I ran into early on was that sometimes a munin-cron run would still be executing … Continue reading →

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Apache Retreat 2010 Picture gallery

Posted on 20100413 by bkero

I’ve recently come back from the Apache Retreat 2010. Here are some pictures that I took!

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Part III: Munin[node] in cfEngine

Posted on 20100307 by bkero

At work we use munin and cfEngine extensively, therefore it is accurate to assume that we have a tight-knit setup that allows us to scale munin-node to all hosts in cfEngine, and have the munin-master configured through it as well. … Continue reading →

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Part II: The Munin-master

Posted on 20100307 by bkero

Hopefully you’ve read the first part(Munin-Node), and have one or more nodes already configured. It’s alright if the munin-node is running on the same machine as the munin-master. The master is more of a pain to set up than the … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, centos, debian, fedora, gentoo, monitoring, munin, osuosl, ubuntu | 1 Comment