Easiest Way to Shutdown Asus WL-500W

By Shantanu Goel in Gadgets , Hack on 11 Jul, 2009

If you are a proud owner of an Asus WL-500W wireless router (or maybe another one of the same series like wl-500g, wl-500gp, etc), then you know that this router has a very useful USB port with which you might have attached your external hard disk and have already offloaded all your downloding tasks to

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VirtualBox High CPU Usage Problem Solved

By Shantanu Goel in Computers , Software on 07 Jul, 2009

A few days ago, I had to install Windows XP as a guest OS on my Ubuntu Hardy machine as I needed to carry out some Visual Studio work. What I noticed was that my CPU usage went through the roof (constantly at 100%) even if the guest was completely idle. Result: My laptop was

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Compiling Latest FireFly (mt-daapd) for ASUS WL-500W

By Shantanu Goel in Programming , Projects , Software on 03 Jul, 2009

FireFly is a nice DAAP based media server that allows you to listen to your music collection anywhere using any DAAP based client like iTunes, with other players (like Winamp, Rhythmbox, VLC, etc) using plugins, or it even has its own dedicated php/flash/java based clients that can be fired up on any platform any computer

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