Following up to Jim’s recent post about the new Weird Al video:
How White and Nerdy Are You?
Suprisingly Low
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Yearly Archives: 2006
More Pictures
Many more Robin pictures up on the gallery: August 15, September 11, and September 13.
September 13 needs some explanation, the green block vibrates when you pull on the foot of the frog on one face. Robin figured out that you need to pull it to make it vibrate, but he couldn’t get a good enough grip with his fingers, so he tried his teeth. And the sequencing:
Maybe I can pull this!
Progress
Farther
Success!
Hoopeston Sweetcorn Festival report
The 63rd National Sweetcorn Festival is over, less beer, fewer late nights and fewer calories this year.
We served nearly 24 tons of corn, only had extra on Saturday evening. On Monday, we were done husking the 6 tons of corn before 3 pm and were completely cleaned up and moved out by 4 pm. Usually Monday is a slow day, but not this year. The wonderful weather and lower gate price helped get more people in the park, as did the recently “lower” gas prices.
I did get to work a new job this year: serving beer in the beer tent. The crowds were never large, but you could see the demo derbies from the beer tent, so there was a steady flow all through the derbies and for an hour or so afterwards. We’re hoping for portable bleachers inside the beer tent area next year, better views than sitting on picnic tables at the edge of the fence.
On Saturday, the Illinois Jaycees president and 2 other officers from Southern Illinois were up on the husker table along with me. They asked how long I’d been a Jaycee member and, I’m not a Jaycee. On Monday, someone who is running for state president was helping on the husker. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that her hard sell wasn’t going to do much good since I’m not a member….
Overall, another fun festival, but I need some time back at work to rest up from my vacation!
Making VLANs work on Bering
Or any other distribution that uses Debian network scripts:
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# VLAN 100
auto eth0.100
iface eth0.100 inet static
address 10.0.15.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 10.0.15.255
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
pre-up /sbin/vconfig add eth0 100
Grabbed from some random searching
Or, you could try the method mentioned here:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0 eth1 vlan2 vlan3 vlan4 vlan5
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# VLAN 1 - native management VLAN
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.224
vlan_raw_device eth1
# VLAN 2 - DMZ
iface vlan2 inet static
address 10.0.0.33
netmask 255.255.255.224
vlan_raw_device eth1
And if you want to get really crafty: Transparent vlan bridging firewall with debian
Installing LEAF on a PC Engines WRAP board
Starting with the walkthrough from the Q*Box project, I’ve gotten a base Bering uClibc 2.4.2 image installed on a Compact Flash card in a PC Engines WRAP board.
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New Laptop
Yay, I got my new laptop.
Bath time and Swingin’
Windows Server 2003 SP1 firewall
Who would have thought I’d be talking about the Windows Server 2003 SP1 firewall? But, it really works. And it’s almost tolerable to configure from the command line.
REM Set variables:
set Network1=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0,192.168.10.128/255.255.255.224
set Network2=172.16.0.0/255.255.0.0
set Network3=10.12.0.0/255.255.254.0
REM Concatenate addresses here, MUST HAVE ONLY COMMAS (",") between them
set ADDRESSES=%Network1%,%Network2%,%Network3%
REM Allow MSSQL from All
netsh firewall add portopening protocol = TCP port = 1433 name = MSSQL mode = ENABLE scope = CUSTOM addresses = %ADDRESSES%
REM Allow RDP from Network1 only
netsh firewall add portopening protocol = TCP port = 3389 name = RemoteDesktop mode = ENABLE scope = CUSTOM addresses = %Network1%
REM Allow BackupExec from Local Subnet only
netsh firewall add portopening protocol = TCP port = 10000 name = BackupExecAgent mode = ENABLE scope = SUBNET
REM Turn on logging of dropped packets
netsh firewall set logging filelocation = %windir%pfirewall.log maxfilesize = 4096 droppedpackets = ENABLE
REM Clear variables:
set Network1=
set Network2=
set Network3=
The logfile generates too much useless information, especially if you use DHCP on your network, but it also shows that you didn’t waste your time configuring it:
2006-08-11 05:36:28 DROP TCP 67.108.111.43 192.168.1.130 27726 1433 48 S 3572543340 0 65535 - - - RECEIVE
Rest in Peace Hefty
HEFFELFINGER – Jeffrey D. “Hefty” Heffelfinger,
36, of Hoopeston died at 10:45 a.m. Monday,
July 31, 2006 in Burlington, Wis. Arrangements
were incomplete at Brown-Alkire Funeral Home.
Hopefully the poker players aren’t as tough where you are now.
Wireless driver vulnerabilities?
So now we need to worry about our drivers being exploited? SANS and Intel say so.
Update: I’d like to echo what F-Secure has to say: 129MB for 1 device driver patch? That must be some hole, but I’m sure glad I’m on broadband….