Of all the various services that I use/host online, I consider email to be, by far, the most critical. It’s been over 11 years since I registered my first domain name so as to have a permanent email address regardless of changes in educational institution or employer. I’ve gone through a variety of email setups [...]
I’d written before about a really good VPS deal and how I was using it for additional secondary DNS. Not entirely surprisingly, that provider seems to have entirely vanished shortly after sending me an email at the end of my 1-month account asking me to renew (hard to renew when their web site doesn’t exist [...]
The other day, I realized while I was at work that I needed some files from my Mac desktop at home. Normally, no problem, ssh into my firewall and open a tunnel to my desktop (this is better done with authpf, but that’s a post for another time), use sftp, and done. The problem is [...]
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Posted 13 August 2008
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Tagged: apple, firewall, mac, magic packet, os x, sftp, sleep, ssh, ssh tunnel, wake, wake-on-LAN, WoL
For many years now, I’ve used WorldWideDNS.net for the bulk of my DNS hosting. On Monday, they suffered a massive DDoS attack, taking out pretty much everything and making a few of my domains (including 2718.us) unavailable. Now, personally, I consider this sort of attack and outtage at a service provider to be an inevitability, [...]
Since I’m on my second of what will probably be 4 or 5 unslung NSLU2 “slug” units (with identical 1GB flash drives from eBay), I figured it was time to write down specific step-by-step directions, if perhaps only for my own use later. (As an aside, having the two ethernet ports on my Mac Pro [...]
Since my employer’s wireless network is unencrypted and since I use other open WiFi networks with some frequency, I’ve gotten in the habbit of tunneling everything through SSH, using the SOCKS5 proxy mechanism built in to SSH. In WinXP, there’s a nice little program called Tunnelier that makes the setup of the tunnel simple and [...]
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Posted 13 June 2008
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Tagged: applescript, firefox, firefox system proxy, location, mac, network, network location, os x, proxy, secure shell, socks, socks proxy, socks5, socks5 proxy, ssh, ssh tunnel, system proxy, tunnel, tunnelier
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 [...]