eric’s extremeboredom

Well, for us at least. Today I finally got rid of the very last SCO OpenUNIX system at work, and boy are we happy. After actually having used one of SCO’s products I can safely say that all the shit they get from, well, the entire IT community at this point is completly justified – [...]

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…well, I guess I still wouldn’t have enough money to purchase a license, but that’s beside the point. So after I accidentally stepped on the one extension cord that everyone’s computer was plugged into at my LAN party the other night the Windows XP installation inside vmware that I do all my Meshwork development in [...]

Before I accidently destroyed my Firefox profile I had this great extension called “Search Button” that among many other things will clear the search bar after pressing enter. I guess you have to use Linux to understand why this is such a revolution. While rebuilding my Firefox profile I was very upset to find out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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, [...]

Made a quick website for Hotwire. Check it out. I need a logo, if you have talent contact me! :)