Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
On Memorial Day, CompUSA had a really good sale on WinTV PVR 250 hardware MPEG encoder cards. I had been thinking about getting one for a while now, but they were too much on eBay. Well, after using a few tricks, the final price will…
It was a peaceful Saturday morning. The sun was out. The skies were blue. A few birds were singing. Overall it was one of those beautiful late May days here in Chicagoland. I was completely unaware that coming my way was attack which no mere…
Addendum: How the Data Was Analyzed This section of information is really part of the article. It’s more just a reference for those of you who might want more information on how the data was analyzed. This section shows the tricks that I used so…
Background Most true Unix geeks will recognize just how nice LPD is as a distributed queueing mechanism for managing all jobs sent to the printer. It has a beautiful simplicity to it, and some mean power to go along with it. It’s a difficult beast…
In yesterday’s article I wrote about how to get OpenBSD and IPv6 to play nicely together, so you could get some basic applications running. Today, I’m going to go into some more depth and tell about how to get some applications going. Finding Hostnames One…
After some mucking around, I’ve gotten IPv6 and OpenBSD to play nicely together. Furthermore, I’ve got my OpenBSD box acting as a router for my other computers behind it, as such they all have globally addressable ipv6 addresses now too. I got a lot of…
There used to be a good page at 2600 Australia about how to set up IPv6 with OpenBSD, sadly that page is gone. However, I did find a little gem from SANS about Building an IPv6 Firewall with OpenBSD. It looks a little up to…
I think that the migration of my website to the openbsd server has been successful. It took a lot longer than I wanted because first I had the two ethernet cards in the firewall mislabelled, then one wasn’t accepting DHCP addresses. Now it seems like…
Today’s award Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf award for public misinformation goes to SCO. They’ve been involved in this whole Linux lawsuit for (use Dr. Evil voice here) $1 billion dollars (end Dr. Evil voice) against IBM. Anyway, SCO has a page with quotes from Linux leaders…
Just a little note, I hope to be migrating this site back to OpenBSD this weekend. It’s finally the end of the semester and I should have some time to get my old OpenBSD server back up an running. That should alleviate some of the…