Archive for April, 2006

Linksys WRT54G Wireless HotSpot

By bo, 11 April, 2006, No Comment

This tutorial deals with setting up a WLAN HotSpot on a Linksys WRT54GS router using OpenWrt, ChilliSpot, and FreeRadius. OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for Linksys WRT54G. It provides minimal firmware with add-on packages. Its allows the customization with a broad range of software packages available for it. We will be using OpenWrt as a replacement to the original Linksys firmware that comes pre-installed with the router. ChilliSpot is a wireless LAN access controller. It is used for authenticating users of the wireless LAN. It supports web based login for hotspots. The rest can be found here : http://www.howtoforge.com/wireless_hotspot_howto

Google AdSense and new formats

By bo, 7 April, 2006, No Comment

I have read a very interessting news on http://www.revenews.com/news/2006/01/google_adsense_interstitials_f.html about Google and the Rich Media Ads. Google AdSense is moving beyond the traditional text and graphical advertising to rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads. AdSense began contacting publishers last week to be involved in the rich media limited beta test. The campaigns will likely be site targeted, rather than contextual, but details on the actual implementation of these new ads are still under wraps. With these kind of top-secret beta tests, NDAs are often requirements before being accepted into it.