James Skemp's StrivingLife

Released earlier today, Internet Explorer 10: Platform Preview 2 is now available for download.

Just the other day at work I had fired up IE10PP1 to see if a new version was available, so I'll just go ahead and assume Microsoft was zeroing in on my brainwaves with this.

I definitely like the direction they've gone with these platform previews, so I hope to see that continue.

And that's about all I have to say about that.

I've been sitting on a Linksys (Cisco) WRT54GL for a long while now. A long, long, while.

Originally I was going to replace my WRT54G (don't get me wrong, it still works great) and install DD-WRT for the additional features. However, I just never got around to it. Today I finally dusted off the box (I had opened it) and started getting it setup.

Interestingly, the deeper I dug into DD-WRT the more confused I became. The main Web site contains a database of routers, with information on which firmware to install, but if you dig into the forums you'll find that the database, and the firmware, are out-of-date and buggy.

Luckily, although not too surprisingly, there's a Wiki on the Linksys WRT54GL, which made installation pretty dang simple.

I basically:

• plugged the router into my laptop via a wired connection,
• disconnected from my existing wireless-enabled router,
• verified I could access the router with the stock firmware
• did a hard reset on the router (30-30-30)
• installed the new firmware
• had to manually change the password (it didn't prompt me)
• was set, since I decided to stick with the 'micro' (called such because of how large it is) install

The hardest part was then replicating my existing settings on the new router, although that wasn't terrible since I was able to just connect to both from my laptop and iPad. I didn't put in my custom DNS lookups (I'm not using Charter), so that caused some issues, although even after adding those didn't work, a power cycle of my cable modem did.

All-in-all, it was much easier than I thought it was going to be, and, best of all, I don't have a bricked router.

According to inSSIDer, I already seem to have a better signal, so that's a good sign. I don't see myself investing too much time in additional settings, but ... it's there if I want to play around.

Oh, and if you're gotten this far, it's been a few months more than 2 years since I picked up the WRT54GL. Whoops.

While I was working on tweaking my video game listing, and creating my offline Web application manager, I kept running into issues with the cache manifest holding onto data much longer than I would have liked.

After some research I found that Chrome's interface can easily be found by going to chrome://appcache-internals/.

On Safari, on the iPod Touch and iPad, you can stop/close Safari (hold down the home button on the home screen, and close the application) and then start it back up to clear the data. This is slightly unfortunate, since it would be nice if this would stick around after the application is closed, but is sufficient. It also isn't very obvious, as I spent a good deal of time trying to figure this out before I tried this as a last-ditch effort.