USB Laser guided Missile Launcher

USB Laser guided Missile Launcher complete with API specs.

My corporate mailroom got several in, had to x-ray the box, as it said “Cheeky Missile Launcher” on the well-traveled box from China.

 It works.

Can’t say much more than that.

Routers that don’t burn up

I’ve been running a router going back to the old 9600 baud SLIP days. (or actually I did uucp prior to that).

Whats really annoying about these home quality routers is they die after about 1-3 years of service.

I’ve done the SMC, Netgear and no-name route. (choose the current $50 with rebate deal dejour).

Being a profesionnal with some open source projects, I did some homework and splurged on a Cisco Linksys WRT-54GL router and promptly loaded up the DD-WRT alternate software for it. So far looks and works flawlessly. Can’t say that about much. I especially like the ability to turn the radio up from 28 to 200MW. One good sign is that after a day of running, no packet errors and most importantly not much heat coming out of the box. That is usually the kiss of death. If they are throwing much heat, there seems to be a lifespan correlation based on my sample set.