• Squeezebox radio review

    What better way to wake in the morning than to a bit of streaming radio? No longer limited to the few FM or AM radio stations in your area and the option to the play your own music or stream from online music sources. There were were two devices that I had in mind when…

  • Moving from subversion to git with gitolite

    The following notes provide details on the conversion of several repositories from subversion to git making use of two tools to help with the process: gitolite which provides a framework to help managing a central git repository. From https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite svn2git to convert existing repositories from subversion to git. From: https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git This is the second time…

  • Netgear WNDR3700

    Two Netgear WNDR3700’s are now running here at twibble.org and both are loaded with locally built versions of openwrt. The first is running as a router, switch, 2,4GHz access point, 5GHz wireless client. dhcp server and radvd server, while the second is running as a 5GHz access point, firewall (shorewall), vpn server (openswan), 6to4 gateway,…

  • Beyonwiz DP-P1 hard disk upgrade

    The trusty Beyonwiz DP-P1 had served me well for a few years but the 250G hard drive was starting to feel a bit small. Research suggested that it was important that any new hard drive didn’t consume much more power than the original drive. If a SATA drive was to be used some a SATA…