20060523

WAMP?

Windows Apache MySql Php

Been getting flack about me moderating a guy's sub-forum at an all-female dominated community board. It's hard to act "professional" when some people act like children.

20060315

k700i & VGA Mode lines

Just got a new phone! It's Sony Ericsson k700i. It's an old phone but it's the phone I really want.

Just saw this on /.

I know I'll get moderated as a troll again because I suggest using Linux over Windows, but

Modeline "800x480" 40 800 864 928 1088 480 481 484 509 +hsync

Will do the trick for X. No drivers necessary.


It might come in handy someday.

20060117

Ultra Electro Magnetic Top!

I was checking out the Eraserheads entry at Wikipedia to see the albums they've made. I have their first album, titled "UltraElectroMagneticPop!". The Wiki entry didn't say where the name of the album came from so I tried editing it.

The Wiki hanged for a while till I decided to save it again.

Check it out! Hopefully, my update was accurate enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eraserheads#Discography

20051028

Bookmarks: Windowx XP Remote Booting

Might be handy someday.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/xp/deploy/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xehowhowtoconfigureeltorito.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xetbshowtocreaterun-timeimageformassdeployment.asp

20050810

Unix: Old dog, new tricks

Renaming files in linux:

To rename all files ending in ".old" to ".new", use the following:
for i in *.old; do echo mv $i `basename $i .old`.new; done

To remove the first few characters from a file, you can try the following:
for i in *; do echo mv $i `echo $i | tr -d "wqy"`; done

To rename/change uppercase to lowercase in current directory:
for i in `ls`; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done

To rename/change uppercase to lowercase excluding directories:
for i in `find . -type f -print`; do
base=`basename $i`;
echo mv $i `dirname $i`/`echo $base | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`;
done


To rename/change uppercase to lowercase directories:
for i in `find . -print -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep [a-z]`; do
echo mv $i `echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`;
done


Remove markup tags in files:
cat filename.xml |sed -e "s/<\/*tagname>//gi"
cat filename.xml |sed -e "s/<\/*tagName>//g"

20050727

Bookmark: ISPConfig


http://www.ispconfig.org/

"Open source hosting control panel for Linux."

iptables brute force rule

Saw this on /. today:

iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j SSH_Brute_Force
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -m recent --name SSH --set --rsource
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -m recent ! --rcheck --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --name SSH --rsource -j RETURN
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -m limit --limit 3/min -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH Brute Force Attempt: "
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -p tcp -j REJECT

4 ssh connections within a second causes a 3 minute ban. I wonder if there's a FreeBSD equivalent.

20050722

Homemade AirConditioning

I wanna do this someday...

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~gmilburn/ac/

20050721

More FreeBSD notes

Why oh why isn't there a UbuntuGuide.org equivalent for FreeBSD? The Handbook and FAQ just doesn't cut it. Anyway, here's some stuff I just learned:

1. Install sudo (pkg_add -r sudo) so you don't have to switch to root. This is sort of a remant of Ubuntu in me. Never was a fan of sudo before.

2. pkg_add -r freebsd-update. Then copy the sample configuration file & create a folder called /usr/local/freebsd-update. Then do a sudo freebsd-update fatch. If all looks good, do a sudo freebsd-update install

3. Have sex.

FreeBSD as a Desktop

Just ditched my office workstation running Ubuntu 5.04 (based off Debian) to FreeBSD 5.4. I used FreeBSD before but as a server. What am I thinking? Though GNOME (my choice of WM) is supported, it's not *fully* supported per-se. For one, whenever I access the Users & Groups in the Admin section while running as a regular user, the bloody program just waits there. For nothing. It should at least ask me for the root password but it didn't.

But I still like it, it's small and stable considering what I mentioned above. What I did:

1. Install FreeBSD minimal - at this point I have a "usable" FreeBSD machine. Then used pkg_add to install the Xorg X server. Since FireFox isn't on the CD, I used pkg_add -r firefox to do a web install. So pkg_add proceeds to download firefox *and* it's dependencies... including perl. WTF? Why?

2. OK, I need to install GNOME. A lot of people are whining about some WMs are too bloated. Luckily, FreeBSD's ports include gnome2-lite which is a minimal install of GNOME. So off I go via pkg_add -r gnome2-lite.

3. Also pkg_add -r gdm for good measure.

4. Edited /etc/ttys and enabled GDM.

5. I'm still sexy.

I also tried adding the flash plugin for FireFox. Interestingly, firefox crashes from time to time so I removed it via pkg_delete. Good ridence I say. No flash? It's all good. I don't need it anyway since I'm at work. :D

20050705

Do you PHP?

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/php_experts/rasmus_php.html

20050607

Bookmark: Scientific Linux

Based from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4:
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40/iso/i386/

20050307

Bookmark: PBX Systems

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/03/06/1945210.shtml?tid=126&tid=218
http://techdatapros.com/asterisk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBX
http://asterisk.org
http://www.xten.com