finally fixed fatron (asus wl500gp v2 router)

it's been a year but the router's finally reflashed.

(on Linux)

1. Switch off networking
2. connect laptop directly to LAN port on router
3. The router's going to be coming up on:192.168.1.1 so... set the laptop's IP to something else but in the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.123, I used 192.168.1.2 as per TFM), do it like this: sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
4. start pinging the router (nothing's coming back), like this: ping -t -w2 192.168.1.1
5. hard-reset the router (it must be: 30/30/30)
6. during the last 30, the pings will start responding with a ttl of 100, when it's 100 you can tftp it, (normally when you boot the router, it gives a few ttl100's and then you get 64's if you have a look)
7. tftp can only send a 4MB file (or less) so no huge binaries, I used: dd-wrt.v24_mini_asus.trx,
8. When the ttl100's start coming, send the binary with this: echo -e "binary\nrexmt60\ntrace\nput dd-wrt.v24_mini_asus.trx\n" | tftp 192.168.1.1
9. If it's going ok, you'll see lots of: sent
10. DATA
11. received ACK ...
12. After that finishes, leave the router to write to nvram, I gave it ten minutes, this is the important bit, you need to leave it alone for a bit
13. hard reboot it, so switch off, count to 30 and then switch on, you should be able to get on the web-if now
14. leave it alone for another 5 minutes
15. hard-reset the router again (it must be: 30/30/30) - and you're done!

I got my info from a few sites but this one which explained the "leave it alone for a bit" bit was best: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486

updating unslung-nslu2 to debian

had some trouble with this so thought I'd post

1. the unslung web/cgi updater doesn't work in unslung, so you have to use "upslug2"
2. the debian autoinstaller didn't work for me because I couldn't get a mirror to give me the goods so I ended up formatting my flash drive appropriately, installing the debian image to it and upslug2-ing a special? image to that, see here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/unpack.html

queBurro: queBurro: cracking code

queBurro: queBurro: cracking code: "queBurro: cracking code: 'this is a bit of a place marker while I get some ideas together but basically I'm thinking about a code/cypher I r..."

the strange history of the Beale Ciphers, describing the hidden location of a fortune in gold, buried somewhere in Virginia in the nineteenth century and still not found; ok, so I was trying to remember the beale cypher

queBurro: cracking code

queBurro: cracking code: "this is a bit of a place marker while I get some ideas together but basically I'm thinking about a code/cypher I read about that had never b..."

that's interesting, didn't know you could do that, why am I surprised?!

cracking code

this is a bit of a place marker while I get some ideas together but basically I'm thinking about a code/cypher I read about that had never been cracked (**ref**), it was a () kind of code which I think had a key that was a page in a book, book unknown/page unknown but...
but... there's only a finite number of books and the popular ones will be in googlebooks by now? and since it's just a continuous string on characters I'm wondering if a really long brute force wouldn't do the trick? maybe start by assuming that the book is the bible etc.

work in progress, will get back to you(me)

people ought to pay for things...

if you don't pay for it you don't appreciate it[;/,] so public transport ought to be cheap but not free

^-- not sure about the semicolon/comma/punctuation there, feel free to tell me