Via digg.com, I came across a small, but handly list of O’Reilly Open Books Project. Highlight includes Practical Mod_Perl
Archive for June, 2006
Who Reads My Blog?
23
Jun
Dear Readers,
I’ve cleaned up the presentation a bit tonight, out of curiousity, I was wondering if anyone reads this blog.
If so, post a comment! I know I get a few search engines hits on various subjects I’ve discussed in the past.
Let me know if you subscribe to the RSS feeds, or just visit the web page once in awhile.
Thanks,
Chovy
Configuring Juniper SSL VPN with Gentoo Linux
22
Jun
After a 6-month struggle in trying to grep the internet looking for an answer in how to get Juniper’s SSL VPN client to work with Gentoo Linux, the fight is finally over.
There is a detailed post on the Gentoo forums about how to setup Juniper on Gentoo.
Some requirements are that you are using sun sdk 1.4, which you have to manually download from sun and install with portage.
The major show-stopper for me was not having the correct Kernel parameter set:
$ grep CONFIG_TUN /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_TUN=y
Make sure you have TUN enabled in the kernel:
Device Drivers —>
Network device support —>
< *> Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
see the link above for my notes and step-by-step instructions.
Interesting Posts around the Web
06
Jun
Every morning, I read through various number of blogs…here a few interesting developments today!
Firefox 2: Client-side storage and a lot more
– A new javascript storage containers, similar to a cookie, but are local to a window, not the entire client. Cookies are sent with every request, this will provide the functionality of having two seperate sessions in two different windows (or tabs). For example, logging into the same site under two different accounts (should they implement storage containers). Working draft
ablog ยป Clean that input! – Promising open source library for cleaning user input in php. I haven’t looked through the source code yet.
Stolen Laptop from Hotels.com
05
Jun
Ok, I’ve been sick and tired of hearing about companies who have lax security policies, and private customer information winding up on some outsider’s laptop, let alone when it gets stolen.
According to Wired, Hotels.com auditor Earnst & Young had a laptop stolen with “personal information including names, addresses and credit card information of about 243,000 Hotels.com customers. It did not include their Social Security numbers.”
There’s a simple solution to this problem, companies handing out their customer’s vital information should either *not* do it, or require that the computers have system level encryption at the harddrive level (before the OS even boots up).
This would require the owner to enter a password before the computer starts to bootup, if not the data on the entire harddrive is encrypted and cannot easily be read by an unauthorized user.
The problem is they think the OS authentication is by some means secure. It isn’t. A thief could easily remove the harddrive, and mount it as read only from another machine, thereby bypassing the operating system authentication. If the harddrive were encrypted at bootup, this would not be so easy to circumvent.
GNU Radio – Grab Them All
05
Jun
An interesting (and exciting) article from Wired magazine GNU Radio Opens an Unseen World
about using open source radio software and capturing *all* frequencies…
One of Ettus’ USRPs, with the right daughterboards and radio software, can capture FM, read GPS, decode HDTV, transmit over emergency bands and open garage doors.
…he turns the laptop around to reveal a set of vibrating lines in humps and dips across the screen, like a wildly shaking wireframe mountain range. “Here,” he explains, “I’m grabbing FM.”
“All of it?” I ask.
“All of it,” he says.
Other uses include using GNU Radio to track foot traffic in U.K. shopping centers, by listening for control-channel signals of mobile phones carried by nearby shoppers.
psmouse.c *crazy mouse* Linux
03
Jun
I’ve been a victim of *crazy mouse* with my Belkin KVM switch for about 2 years now. Applied all the recommended hacks, kernel patches, and xorg.conf settings you can think of, and still had issues.
I finally came to the epiphany that buying a $13 kvm switch would’ve saved me lots of frustration.
I bought an IOGear PS/2 micro-kvm w/audio from newegg for $13. Works like a charm with ps/2 and scrollwheel.
I will *never* buy Belkin again.
