Monthly Archives: August 2004

Creating an encrypted filesystem in a file

There are a ton of third party tools for windows that map an encrypted image file to a drive letter (such as Cryptainer LE) so I figured I’d go look around to see how to do it in linux.

http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=looptutorial has a great tutorial on how to set this up, but here’s a quick listing of [...]

I don’t like spam. I prefer bison.

So I finally got sick of getting ~200 spam messages every tine I went to check my email. Spamassassin caught nearly every single one, but was still delivering them to my inbox. Read on for a simple explination on how you set up postfix+spamassasin to REJECT all spam messages.

Create a shell script somewhere (I used [...]

BlogX on Mono

In the GotMono IRC channel someone mentioned that the RSS feed in BlogX (An asp.net blogging application) doesn’t work in mono, so I set out to fix it…

I found several problems with the code, as well as several questionable coding practices.

Concatinating a “/” and another string instead of using Path.Combine (Windows and Linux do not [...]

GnomeAgent Website

Here’s another little tool i’m working on, it’s an ssh-agent/ssh-add frontend for GNOME. It’s actually avaliable for download so go check out the website!

Digitally signing Windows applications

So one of the changes in Windows XP SP2 (That I highly highly recomend everybody download and install) is an increased presense of the digital signature support for signing applications. I decided not to be an outsider and start signing all Meshwork code. Read on for how I did it…

Authenticode works exactly like SSL, you [...]