http://garycourt.com Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:44:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh XBox 360, how do I love the! Let me count thy ways … but watching downloaded movies is not one of them. With the recent fall update for the XBox 360, Microsoft has opened you its Media Client to allow it to connect to third-party UPnP Media Servers. Which ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/stream-transcoded-media-to-your-xbox-360-using-tversity/ In my previous articles, I discussed how to install and setup OpenWRT on the WRT54GL, and how to setup Shorewall as a firewall solution. Today I will be discussing how to install, setup, and use VPNC to connect to a Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator, as well as how to configure ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/vpnc-with-shorewall-on-openwrt/ The other day, David Sklar decided to come up with an ingenious method translating XML into simple JSON; nicknamed BadgerFish. At about the same time, I was looking for a format in which I could convert XML to JSON without loosing the features of XML yet keeping the JSON objects ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/javascript-dom-to-badgerfish-encoder/ In continuation of my previous article on installing OpenWRT on a Linksys WRT54GL, I discuss how to set some of the more advanced network configurations of the router, and how to setup a firewall with traffic shaping. Controlling the Network Switch If you’ve had a chance to look at the hardware layout ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/openwrt-advanced-firewall/ Linksys really hit a niche when they created the WRT54G line of wireless routers, although unintentional. These particular routers were originally written using Linux which, due to the GPL, requires Linksys to release the source code. Since then, many open source groups have gotten ahold of this code and hacked ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/installing-openwrt-on-the-linksys-wrt54gl/ Permalinks are a necessity in today’s online world. With the speed at which information is moving, it needs a way of always being referenced to without it “disappearing”. Permalinks are nothing more then a URL that will always point to the target information, regardless if it moves or not. WordPress ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/changing-permalink-structure-in-wordpress/ One of the things I’ve always wanted to write, ever since I started writing web backends, is a proper extendable (plugin) framework in PHP. I’ve spent a little time searching for something that would fit my needs, but surprisingly there are very few free, documented plugin frameworks available. Though, I ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/php-osgi-framework-concept/ I was looking for a good traffic analyzer for my website when I came across AWStats. It looked good compared to other log analyzers, so I decided to give it a try. I’m a fan of the Debian operating system, which I use on most of my servers. So, like ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/awstats-on-debian/ One of the things I wanted to do when integrating Gallery 2 into WordPress (using the WPG2 plugin) was to be able to see, on the main page, all the latest pictures posted in my gallery. The WPG2 plugin only supported displaying the last item added, and I could not ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/latest-gallery-pictures-in-wordpress/ Poplars is a turn-based strategy game that is traditionally played on a 6×5 board with two opponents. (You can, however, play on any sized board with up to four players optionally) It is a game for all ages that requires recursive thinking and good foresight. Poplars is a game of ... http://garycourt.com/blog/post/poplars/