Routers Sub-Domains and Travel Kit
Sleeping over
For a single or even a family staying over cheap lawn furniture like a chaise lounge for a bed and maybe lawn chair and table can outfit a spare room. With a bucket, water supply, electricity, and a toilet is all one really needs for a short to medium stay if they are carrying the right kit. If I am overnight somewhere I carry this gear, it is small enough that it all fits in my pack. I have been surprised by an overseas or europe ticket deal with only an hour or so to get to the airport too short on time to go home and grab gear.
What is that packing list again?
Laptop and/or PDA
-modem, WiFi, Ethernet, and cables
-Sony over the ear phones
Mobile Phone GSM, SIM unlocked
Washing Kit
-universal flat drain plug
-bungie clothes line
-dish soap in small bottle
Fold up ultra-light daypack
Hot drink kit
-soft folding cup
-110-240 immersion water heating coil
-tea (English of course)
-sugar and faux-creme sachets
Triangia mini cook set
-alcohol stove/pot base
-flask of 95% alcohol
-Lid/frypan holder
First aid kit
Benadryl (sleep and allergy)
-Bandaids
-suture
-roboxacete w/codene (pain especial muscle and joint)
-imodium
-caffeene
-4x4 bandages
-tape
-moleskin
Dahon folding bike
(best repacked in cardboard box with wheels off and taped tight the travel bag to fit USA smaller bag rules)
-pump
-spare tube
-patches and tyre levers
-carry bag
-U-lock
-helmet
-ankle strap
-Light
Jewish stuff
-Tefillin
-Tallit (prayer shawl)
-Prayer book
-Mini Paperback Gemara, Mishnayot, or Mishna Berura (for learning)
Sewing kit
Leatherman Tool
WiFinder keychain WiFI detector
cotton hostle sheet
sleeping bag
Tripod chair
crank up LED light PDA/cellphone charger
GoreTex Bivvy Sack
USB Key 2Gig (USB-SD card with Damn Small Linux)
USB Hard Drive 30Gig (with Movies, Music, and Ubuntu Linux installed)
Clothes
-Poly Suit Coat
-White poly-cotton shirts
-Poly pants (poly is easy to sink wash-line dry)
-Mail carrier black shoes
-Jocky stretch socks
-extra black and knit kippah
--(in cold season)
-GoreTex Vertigo parka shell
-Fleece vest or jacket layer
-REI bicycle gloves
-Columbia rain pants
-overseas plug tips (everything I carry I try to have 110-240v)
Hygene kit
-Deoderant
-soap, bar in box or concentrated soft soap
-Toothpaste and brush
-comb
-kippah clips
-thong sandals
sleep
-tshirt
-surgical scrub trousers
-sleep mask
-earplugs
-neck pillow
(proposed) Brookstone portable hairdryer, to help heat room or dry clothes
(proposed) bike generator phone/PDA charger, LED light
Routers
I got a Netgear WRT-54G to use instaed of the Linksys WGT634U, the USB on the Linksys was cool but Bittorrent would crash it after several hours, The WRT54G running custom DDWRT firmware runs great, I think the Linksys will go in reserve on as a travel rig for feeding multimedia files from a USB drive.
Free Sub-Domain setup
A DynDNS update program is in the router I now run a custom subdomain for my house making SSH, FTP, whatever from home easy. My wifes Windows XP work machine can be booted into ubuntu live CD before I leave (setting a password is required) and I can use that machine to do my bidding.
My overseas server is stock computer with lots of hard disks plugged into a friends fiber optic line in the USA, he is using port 80 for his server so I set up a free ChangeIP.com port forward sub-domain, it makes for an easy address for the family to use to access my web photo server ie. ourwebsite.dnyp.com instead of mywebsite.dyndns.org:4578 and having to specify a network port; a bit much to ask from inlaws who bought their first computer a year ago.
Open Zaurus 3.2 and big memory
Openzaurus for the SL-5500 seems to be stuck in kernel 2.4 zone forever since it requires a binary driver for the SD/MMC card reader whick has been hacked to allow up to 1 Gigabyte cards. I have a new 2G USB-SD card that when used with a CF to SD converter card works in the top slot. I find that the mediaplayer doesn't reliably read from the 2G card but most other programs have no problem. If I want to change my music inventory I can just move the files form the big SD card to the MMC card in the side slot.
What I now carry in my PDA pouch Zaurus SL-5500 with 1G SD card installed, CF to SD card adaptor with 2G SD/USB card (Damn Small linux installed on card along with windows portable apps like Putty-SSH, Firefox Web, Filezilla FTP, and a collection of E-books) And a Symbol CF WiFi card (rebadged socket wifi card)
Dahon Boardwalk vs Dahon Speed 8
I love my Dahon
but I have found that the Boardwalk bikes are unable to use standard derailers without sandwiching a hanger into the rear axle, not so cool. Now I have to decide wether to stick with my current bike or drop $500 on a nice new Speed with standard SRAM parts, metal pedals(if I can get an '06) and a better frame.
Portable DVD player
I was gifted this little gadget in the hopes I could fix the dodgy video playback, fixed no prob. It is a funny little gadget in that it fills a niche we dont really have. Even after I unlocked the regioning our DVD collection which have also come as gifts is just as easily played on our laptop. I suppose It is useful for playing kids videos without wasting a terminal but I hate exposing our kids to so much "good" TV even though we dont even own a television. What I dislike is I am unable to play downloaded content everything this can play must be burned or bought on a DVD, too bad it doesnt read USB disks or SD cards.
