Snippets

  1. BlackBerry & OS X Tethering
  2. DD-WRT & GKrellMd
  3. Firefox: Proxy DNS Lookups
  4. Firefox: Removing Dotted Links
  5. Ubuntu & Firefox
  6. WRT54GL & OpenWRT

BlackBerry & OS X Tethering

Share your BlackBerry's Internet connection with OS X by using the following configuration. This is geared towards the US Cellular network.

  1. Vendor: Generic
  2. Model: Dialup Device
  3. Telephone Number: #777
  4. Account Name: 1234567890@uscc.net
  5. Password: 1234567890

DD-WRT & GKrellMd

Run the GKrellM server on DD-WRT (or other Linux-based firmware):

wget http://jk0.org/files/gkrellmd
chmod u+x ./gkrellmd
./gkrellmd --update-hz 1 --port 19150 -a 192.168.1.10 &

Download: [gkrellmd]

Firefox: Proxy DNS Lookups

If you want to force Firefox to perform all of its DNS lookups over your SOCKS proxy tunnel, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true in about:config.

Firefox: Removing Dotted Links

One of the most irritating things about Firefox is the fact that it adds a dotted border around every active and clicked link. I finally got bored enough to go out looking for a quick solution. Eventually, I found out that all you have to do is go to about:config (in your address bar) and set the following:

browser.display.focus_ring_width 0

Ubuntu & Firefox

In some cases, Firefox’s default layout.css.dpi value of -1 may result in abnormally large font sizes. This can be fixed by going to about:config and changing the value to 72 or 96. It’s likely that this could apply to more than just Ubuntu and Firefox 3 Beta 5.

WRT54GL & OpenWRT

I just thought I should mention that the Linksys WRT54GL can be slightly unstable with OpenWRT when the CPU is running at the standard 200MHz. A quick fix for this is to simply over clock the processor to run at 216MHz. You can do this by running the following commands at the root prompt:

nvram set clkfreq=216
nvram commit