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Archiving a Joomla website
A non-profit I volunteer for, moved their websites to new instance of Joomla, with a responsive template. For posterity sake they were still holding on to the old site (it still had some old content that were not important enough to be ported over), but that version of Joomla just got out of support and…
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Pi-Hole: Plug & Play ad-blocking
Full Home Ad-Block I’ve been using the adblocking script on my wireless gateway for a few months now, and I have come across a few quirks and drawbacks in this method. Every few days my router would experience instability, and manifest it by dropping the whole wireless network. The wired network itself would be chugging…
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Full Home Ad-Block
One of the first things I do on installing a new browser, is to install the Ad block extension, for a cleaner, stress free browsing experience. It is also the primary reason I prefer Firefox on my mobile devices (Chrome still does not support extensions on mobile). One of the most popular and most efficient…
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Lights out 🙁
How ever strong the signal was with the new WHR-G125, being placed in the corner office, it still would not reach bedrooms at the other end of the house. So plan was to augment it with another router acting as a repeater. As luck would have it, one fine day as I plugged in my…
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Alternative firmwares for WHR-G125
After encountering a few problems in configuration of the wireless routers, I was searching the Intenet for solutions. The Buffalo site itself was down due to some ongoing litigation. Scourging more, I found that DD-WRT has released an alternate firmware for it. Installing it on the WHR-G125 was fairly easy. Although wireless routers come with…
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Time for a new Router
Ok, only a geek will get excited about this, and working in a Networking company doesn’t help much either.Had to give away my trusty old D-Link DI-624 to my Dad (who is a proud owner of a laptop now, and cutting all cords). It has served its purpose well, albeit with some limitations: it used…