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Dance To Open The Door
Since I work in a highly secured data center you become numb to RFID readers and biometric access points. My friend Brian sent me a link to some cat facial recognition project. He said “You need to implement the system and issue all customers their own cat.”…hehehe. To this I said “I’m installing kinects on…
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New RB1100AH
Well my fine feathered fiends, it looks like we have a new product announcement. I was bored for a bit this weekend and I was perusing the Mikrotik forums as I am want to do. I came across this: Looks like they took the same design and gave us more CPU and a little more…
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Mikrotik Fetch Tool
I had JJ ask me the other day how to pull a file down to the mikrotik via a script, and the fetch tool is the answer. The fetch tool will pull via HTTP or FTP and as of version 5, it can also push. Pulling the coolest site logo /tool fetch url="http://gregsowell.com/logolong.png" mode=http
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2N VS N+1 – What’s The Difference?
Ahhh, how I love buzz words. We hear these constantly at the data center. I heard someone ask the other day, “What’s the difference between 2N and N+1?” You generally hear it said like “We have N+1 cooling.” or “We are 2N on our UPS.” Sooooooo, what’s the difference? It’s pretty simple. N represents the…
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OpenWRT On Mikrotik Metarouter
The idea of running a lite linux server on your Mikrotik router is quite appealing. I can think of many uses: Asterisk PBX, lite web server, haproxy load balancer. Mikrotik’s official documentation is here. Mikrotik was kind enough to compile and patch a version of OpenWRT, though there seems to be little documentation otherwise. I…
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Mikrotik 5.0rc9 Released
For all of you riding the bleeding edge, here is the quick bug fix for the last round of bug fixes 😉 *) wireless – fixed disconnect problem on long distance 802.11 40MHz links; *) wireless nv2 – fixed station mode that broke when station-bridge was introduced *) wireless – more improvements for 11n compatibility;…
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Remote Relays
I’ve always loved working with 12V and I’ve used some remote control 12V stuff in the past. Here’s a couple of cool relays…that are pretty cheap. Two remotes for 1 relay, $16.95. 1 remote, 4 relays $26.99. 1 remote, 4 relays momentary action $23.67. GSM activated 7 relays $145.99. You send an SMS message and…