October 29, 2004 – 5:40 pm
I hope you all saw the lunar eclipse the other night.
Taken with my Canon Powershot S400
More photos (not taken by me) avaliable at SpaceWeather.com.
October 28, 2004 – 5:24 pm
Which File Extension are You?
October 27, 2004 – 1:58 pm
I noticed the Gentoo team made some neat changes to portage and baselayout:
First off they changed the format of the network configuration file, so if you recently sync’d and emerge’d world and are wondering why your networking failed to start this could be why..:
$ cat /etc/conf.d/net
ifconfig_eth0=(
“10.19.66.5 broadcast [...]
October 21, 2004 – 4:47 pm
This certanly could be the most ridiculus thing i’ve seen, uh, well this month.
School District Bans Halloween
PUYALLUP - A local school district is banning Halloween parties because children dressed up as witches might be offensive to real witches.
Apparently our concept of “witches” comes from a religion called “Wiccan“. The Wiccans are upset because they [...]
October 21, 2004 – 2:19 pm
One of the huge annoyances at work is every internal system having it’s own user database, apache webservers being no exception. In light of this I figured out how to get apache to authenticate against an active directory domain using samba, winbind, and pam.
At this point I’ll assume that winbind/samba are both already configured and [...]
October 18, 2004 – 12:05 am
Well it sure was easier to get this thing working on here than it was to get it working on clarkconnect:
1. Download & Install vtun
$ wget http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US/pool/non-US/main/v/vtun/vtun_2.6-3_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg –install vtun_2.6-3_i386.deb
This will install all dependencies automatically.
More mirrors are at: http://packages.debian.org/testing/non-US/vtun
2. Load the tun module
$ sudo modprobe tun
3. Add tun to /etc/modules so it will be [...]
October 17, 2004 – 9:18 pm
I’ve been setting up vtun tunnels to friend’s local networks to play around with linux routing. A few of them are using ClarkConnect routers. It’s not nearly as easy to get vtun working on clarkconnect compared to Gentoo, which involves entering the very complicated “emerge vtun” command and watching everything just work, but I managed [...]
October 16, 2004 – 5:16 pm
Hell has officially frozen over today.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/10/16/0347209.shtml?tid=204&tid=10
October 10, 2004 – 10:34 pm
I don’t think i’ll ever be able to eat another egg again.
> The Egg Song. <
Update: There are EPISODES. *Hides in corner*
October 9, 2004 – 10:41 pm
I spent at least 5 hours today trying to get a wireless network working for someone with no success. The original issue was they had a computer at the opposite end of the house than the AP and wanted to be able to use it on their new broadband. The AP was an ACTIONTEC DSL/Router/Access [...]