Now that all my traffic to and from the internet is running happily through my Alix box (and it had no trouble with a few hours of sustained maxing-out of my 6Mbps down/768kbps up DSL line in both directions), and since my first test unslung-NSLU2 “slug” seems to be stably doing its job as a [...]
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Posted 25 May 2008
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Tagged: alix, blink, breathing, c, gpio, gpioctl, led, leds, openbsd, pulse, pulsing
My biggest problem with flashdist is just how little is included. This is, of course, necessary for the primary goal of flashdist (working on really constrained machines) and since its goals generally align with my goals in using flashdist and since flashdist has those nice, simple, pre-built images, the fact that very little is included [...]
Today, not only did the NSLU2 that I bought on eBay arrive, but the red anodized aluminum case for my Alix arrived, too. Getting the NSLU2 to run “unslung” from a 1GB flash drive was a royal pain. If I do a second one, I’ll have to verify my technique, but it seems that the [...]
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Posted 22 May 2008
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Tagged: 'nix, alix, firewall, flash, flashdist, linksys, linux, nat, nslu2, openbsd, router, slug, unslung
I subscribe to a few security-alert email lists, most of which I skim and delete (since I already know that there are new fixes for multiple vulnerabilities in MS Windows and/or Office without being told and since I don’t care about issues with multi-thousand-dollar Oracle/Cisco/Sun products). It’s rare that an alert really catches my eye [...]
The OpenBSD router machines I installed at my place and my parents’ have been failing and I’ve been doing band-aid fixes of little things as they break, but it’s annoying. My new idea is to use hardware routers, but to install one or more “slug” NSLU2 devices, unslung, inside each network to provide DNS and [...]
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Posted 17 May 2008
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Tagged: alix, bsd, dell, dlink, dsl, ebay, gateway, linux, nslu2, openbsd, pppoe, router, slug, ssh, unslung, vpn
Somehow (my best guess is it happened with the database update in the WP2.5.1 upgrade), the database secret, stored as “secret” and visible on /wp-admin/options.php, changed making the logins for bbPress and WordPress clobber each other (both apps using the same cookie, but each app rewriting the cookie with its own contents, rather than recognizing [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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Tagged: 2.5.1, bbpress, cookie, cookies, database secret, integrate, integration, options.php, secret, upgrade, wordpress, wp, wp2.5.1
It seems that some themes that I’d used as the bases for my own themes on my WordPress installs (other than this one) didn’t have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the footer.php file, like they should, I guess, since that seems to be what the WordPress.com stats plugin needs to register hits. I had been wondering [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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Tagged: footer.php, plugin, stats plugin, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress plugin, wordpress.com stats, wordpress.com stats plugin, wp, wp plugin, wp stats, wp2.5, wp_footer
Most drop-in “is this a valid-form email?” functions do label certain valid email addresses as invalid. In particular, while highly unlikely, it is valid to have an email address at a TLD. Why did this come to mind? Very circuitously. I was watching YouTube videos when I noticed that it was loading stuff from “i.ytimg.com,” [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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Tagged: address validation, dns, domain, domain name, email, email address, fqdn, host, hostname, invalid, name server, rfc, rfcs, sld, tld, valid, valid email address