Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
On Sunday morning I ordered myself a nice little pre-passing-qualifiers present: a shiny new 200 GB hard drive from Staples. After rebate I got it for about $40 or so. Not a bad deal. However, installing it was a royal pain. I’m convinced that if…
Here are the steps one can take to get free wireless in Linux. As long as the network isn’t encrypted this should work. Install and configure Kismet. Sniff traffic to find open access points. If an open access point is not available, then sniff for…
I’m surpised by how many people have emailed me about MythTorrent over the past few days. I didn’t expect that people actually noticed when I posted stuff here. Anyway, here is a bit more of an explanation of how it works. First of all, it…
I’m sorta on a mission. I really need some graphics to brand my presentations and stuff, but most are of hideous resolution or in non-editable format. With that being said, my new hack today is the College of Engineering logo for Carnegie Mellon. For some…
Here is the old logo for CASOS. It looks okay, but it’s only in raster format and furthermore has lots of annoying artifacts from being JPEG compressed a few too many times. I got tired of this, so I created a nice new vector image.…
As most of my readers know, before migrating to Pittsburgh, I lived in Chicago for six years. It’s a great city to live in and their parks are wonderful. While in Chicago, I paid my share of city taxes. I’m sure some of my money…
My Uber-Intelligent office and stat/public health loving officemate Sarah sent me a wonderful set of public health slides from California. Apparently, this briefing was used for the Governator to convince him that California needed to stop “Dumb growth” and be more intelligent about creating communities.…
This is a bit of a lazyweb request. Does anyone know of a way so I can see who the six people who subscribe to my feed on BlogLines. If it’s truly fostering a social atmosphere then you should be able to see who is…
I’m progressing well on my war to reclaim bandwidth back from spammers and other nefarious foul beasts who can barely be classified as human. Today I had to take a step that I’d rather not do because it becomes a real pain in the butt,…
Realizing that I shouldn’t be content with just sending out 403 codes to link spammers, I decided to get a little more devious. I’ve now hooked up a CGI to handle the 403 errors. What’s even better, it hooks into pfctl on OpenBSD to dynamically…