ITT: times when tech went easier than expected. >Buy new

>>59247406
>$149 router
That's kinda expensive.
What feature do you need in that router that you don't find in regular router ?

>bought cheapest canon DSLR available
>some things i want do to are available only in more expensive cameras
>seems like its a firmware difference only
>there exist custom firmware for my camera which gives the desired features
>its dead simple to install, put it on sd card and reboot
also:
>doesn't even void warranty
thanks canon

>>59248028

Not that guy, but a proper router should support things like VLANs and enough power to run some Squid and maybe ntopng.

>>59247406

>buying an asus router
>when a mikrotik router would have all the features you need for 1/2 the price

>Car has particular design flaw that requires a brass replacement of a plastic piece that can ruin the transmission if it fails
>Studying replacement process online
>Go out to car to inspect it beforehand to make sure my engine is the same as the diagrams
>Brass bushing has already been installed by previous owner

how nice

>wrote a program for windows that reads text from the clipboard and writes it out to stdout to be used from batch sripts
>clipboard reading function returns void*, I think I should copy data from it to a char * and print that out BUT lets try printing out the void* first
>it works without problems

wrote a whole markov chain thing in python + mysql without testing and it worked