Archive for September, 2005

System upgrade tonight

by @ Tuesday, September 27th, 2005. Filed under Technology

Tonight I will be moving my system from the mirrored 200GB drives to the RAID5+HotSpare array. I’ve been kinda holding out on doing a bunch of work until this is completed, since I don’t want to have to do anything twice . Hopefully it’ll be pretty easy.

ISlack

by @ Monday, September 26th, 2005. Filed under Security

ISlack is a security focused distro. Most of the numerous security-related software is suited for penetration testing of your network. There are also security tools for testing your local security and IDSs for monitoring. The configuration of ISlack is hardened by default: (listening for connection) services are turned off, and incoming ports are closed. Changes: [...]

SSHDFilter

by @ Sunday, September 25th, 2005. Filed under Security

Sshdfilter automatically blocks ssh brute force attacks by reading sshd log output in real time and adding iptables rules based on authentication failures. Block rules are created by logging on with an invalid user name, or wrongly guessing the password for an existing account. Block rules are removed after a week to maintain a small [...]

NAJAX

by @ Sunday, September 25th, 2005. Filed under Technology

Summary: NAJAX 0.4.0.0 released NAJAX is a package that can be used to call PHP classes on the Web server side from Javascript code in Web pages. It uses AJAX technology to submit HTTP requests from Javascript to pass call parameters and collect and process the responses. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=496736 Also – the current version of the [...]

You never know when buffalo might attack.

by @ Wednesday, September 21st, 2005. Filed under Guns and such

You never quite know when those wild buffalo might come right for you. An interesting/quick article on bullet penetration testing. http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot4.htm

“Press Your Luck”

by @ Friday, September 16th, 2005. Filed under Security

From the newest version of Bruce Schnier’s CRYPTO-GRAM (a really excellent newsletter that I highly recommend): ” A fun, and ultimately tragic, story about a bad game-show random-number generator. “

bad humor

by @ Wednesday, September 14th, 2005. Filed under political perspective

Q: What’s George Bush’s position on Roe v. Wade? A: He really doesn’t care how people get out of New Orleans.

by @ Tuesday, September 13th, 2005. Filed under Misc

We were in motor boats all day ferrying people back and forth approximately a mile and a half each way (from Carrolton down Airline Hwy to the Causeway overpass). Early in the day, we witnessed a black man in a boat with no motor paddling with a piece of lumber. He rescued people in the [...]

Bad Garrison- go sleep with Rick, the TV dog tonight

by @ Tuesday, September 13th, 2005. Filed under Asshats in the News!

Mr Garrison Keillor has decided (according to some attorney) to sue a person making t-shirts with less then flattering statements about his show on them. Boooooo.

The 10 Stupidist Utopias

by @ Tuesday, September 13th, 2005. Filed under political perspective

” If utopia is supposed to be the ideal and perfect place, where everyone lives in harmony, then why do so many of them turn out to suck? To get an answer, let’s go to the source: Thomas More, whose 1516 travelogue Utopia gave us the word, a pun meaning “no place” and “perfect place.” [...]

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