I know. It’s “old”. But this is not: When it comes to security, you can never be too careful…

Too good not to share… but then again, the spanish version doesn’t get any better… Spotted on a technicolor gateway.

This has got to be one of the least documented features on these Thomson ADSL/GPON routers. In theory, it should be possible to share each and every USB printer by connecting it to one of the free ports on the device. The Thomson configuration is bloody simple: {Administrator}=>:printersharing LPD queue add name myQueue type Raw [...]

YMMV Forcing a NIC to negotiate at a certain speed/mode is simple, as long as you have the right tools at hand. After trying 4 different packages in Ubuntu with mixed results, I got a killer combo. root@coiso:~# ethtool -v ethtool version 6 ethtool eth0 ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 autoneg off ethtool -s eth0 [...]