Hacking around the Japanese Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

(2010-12-09 Now unstuck this page because I plan to overwrite with Openwrt – will publish a writeup about this).

UPDATE 2010-09-17 : look in comments for serial port pinouts… UPDATE 2010-10-02 : A reader of this site has discovered what to set in the environment variables which tells the Japanese firmware to accept ANY alternate

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Oh the times, they are a’changing …

A few posts ago I wrote about my missions for 2012.

I've been living and working in Japan for over 5.5 years. It's had its ups and downs. I've enjoyed life here lots, and I've sometimes hated life here lots.

After the Magnitude 9 earthquake hit on 2011-03-11, things kind of went downhill.

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My mission for 2012

So, a new year, new possibilities. Here’s my main missions for this year..

Become extremely fluent in Japanese – LIKE A BOSS.

I’ve been living in Japan for over 4 years now and to be truly honest, haven’t made near enough effort to learn the lingo. This has been my main stumbling block to progressing

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2011 Seasons Greetings

To all site visitors: Have A Cool Yule!

2011 has been a challenging year for me and mine…

We’ve had to deal with the Magnitude 9 quake in March – which was a bit of an adventure, I can assure you ;) Then the radiation threat from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. My house is

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Radiation Map of Fukushima – and Useful Links *Updated*

This post contains a recently created radiation map of Fukushima prefecture.

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Grower Update : Lettuce : 2010-09-08

After I built my indoor grower, I sowed some lettuce seeds.

"Sunny Lettuce" in Japanese. Looks delicious.

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Indoor vegetable grower which blends in with your living room

I had one main consideration on the end product – that it should blend in with the house, i.e. “it should look like part of the furniture”. I didn’t want some Heath Robinson arrangement sticking out like a sore thumb in the living room.

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