eric’s extremeboredom

Wow, I’m going to have to add a whole category for this soon. I saw this over at osnews: Ten SP2 flaws leave XP users open to hackers The article mentions two possibly independent problems both deriving from Internet Explorer. Although they have not released any proof of concept code, I can guarentee Firefox will [...]

It appears I inadvertenly found a bug in Internet Explorer… Visit the following URL using IE (works fine in any other browser) http://extremeboredom.net/IHATEIE.html …Just another reason you should be using Firefox.

The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0 today! My congradulations and thanks go out to the entire Firefox team as well as all the other people who contributed to mozilla.org in any way. I ask any IE user that comes across the page to give Firefox 15 minutes of your time. Try tabbed browsing, try the [...]

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 10.19.66.255 netmask 255.255.255.0″ ) [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Hell has officially frozen over today. http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/10/16/0347209.shtml?tid=204&tid=10

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 [...]

So I finally decided to make use of this $50 gift certificate for amazon.com I got, and picked two things to order. The total ended up being $0.42 thanks to a suprise $0.80 discount I got for searching A9.com one time. Just so nobody questions my integrity, the only reason I placed an order from [...]