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I had this ancient Microsoft Cordless Multimedia Desktop set (well, just the keyboard – the mouse was lost along the years) and using the Microsoft-provided PPC drivers, I was able to get the keyboard (including the special hotkeys) working on my MacBook Pro. Warning: upcoming rant!

The keyboard died a little while back, and I was using a standard keyboard for the time being. Eventually I got a replacement Logitech S510 set, which is very nice by the way, however the drivers on the CD were Windows-only, and the Mac drivers from their website only support the mouse and not the keyboard (I couldn’t care less about the mouse).

Now, being a Windows keyboard, the physical Alt key gets mapped to the Apple/Cmd key, and the Winkey is mapped to Alt. Using the Modifier Keys option in System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse let me resolve this (although it also changes the internal keyboard too).

In addition, none of the media hotkeys worked with the exception of the sleep and volume buttons. On Windows XP, all the keys worked without any drivers.

I finally stumbled upon the Logitech forums – it never occoured for me to look their first, but I figured it couldn’t hurt. According to the stickies at the top of each category on their forum, the latest version of the Logitech Control Center software is 2.31, yet for some reason the Download page on their official site was giving me the old 1.62 version!

After downloading the latest drivers from VersionTracker (a good site for Mac software, by the way), installed the package, rebooted (I thought rebooting was for Windows…) and still no support for the keyboard under System Preferences. Luckly, the media keys were now working properly, but the zoom key still remains unfunctional.

In addition, I was able to get “middle click” functionality working by going to the new control center and selecting “Advanced click” and “button number 3″.

So there, that’s my adventure in Logitech land.

You know that little blue box sitting in the corner of your home office, providing you with access to the glorious World Wide Web? Yes – I mean your wireless router. Did you know that you can serve web pages directly off of it? I bet you didn’t. Well I’m going to show you how.

Before we get started, however, I would like to remind you that you’re taking a risk (albeit small one if you know what you’re doing) here by voiding your warranty and modifying your router. Make sure you have a spare router just in case you screw up and brick it

First off, I’m going to assume that you’re a self-respecting geek who’s already flashed your Linksys, Buffalo, ASUS, Belkin, D-Link, Motorola, Netgear, or ZyXel router with a some variant of homebrew Linux firmware. If not, I suggest you pick up a copy of Tomato, OpenWrt, DD-WRT, or the like and load it up. For this tutorial, I’m going to use Tomato 1.10 build 1188, since it happens to leave a decent amount of free space on the flash to host your own content, and is fairly feature rich.

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