Well today it officially hit 105 degrees here.  So hot.  The worst part is that I don’t have air conditioning in my apartment.  For whatever reason it seems that most of the apartments here in Eugene don’t come standard with A/C.  This is really weird cause where I come from they all have it in one form or another…  My fan really isn’t doing the trick either because, while yes it moves air, the air it’s moving is 100+ degrees so it’s basically like trying to cool off with a hair dryer.

I’m not one to complain about it being too hot– but this is so much more extreme than I’ve experienced in the past.  Michigan definitely does not get this hot.

Anyways, now to attempt to sleep in this heat…

Has been a very productive morning already.  Got linux running on my Linksys WRT54GS router (which previously had some horrible excuse for a firmware running on it).  Everything seems to be a lot zippier now and the GUI system for admin is much nicer and expansive.

Read about DD-WRT here

I was having problems with my connection randomly dying a couple times a day, forcing me to power cycle my cable mode / router.  So this was something that had to be done.  If you have one of these routers (they are indeed quite popular), I would recommend undergoing this process as it seems you can get a lot more for your money in this device.

The router also has this problem with P2P apps or any software that generates a lot of connections.. any way here are some commands to execute in Telnet to fix this kind of problem:

The following instructions are for DD-WRT only

• Do not use the web interface method as it cuts off part of the commands.
• Enable SSH (Admin, Services) as we are going to use the NVRAM method @ http://wrt-wiki.bsr-clan.de/index.php?title=Startup_Scripts#NVRAM_Method
• Login to the router with an SSH client (root/your password).
• Put the following commands into the SSH client.

~ # nvram set rc_startup=”
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
> echo ‘600 1800 120 60 120 120 10 60 30 120′ > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeouts
> “
~ # nvram commit
~ # reboot

Make sure your “Maximum Ports” is set to 4096 on the Management page of your Admin GUI

Footnote:  rockin’ out to Alabama 3 this morning per Dan’s recommendation.  Pretty rockin tunes!