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August 21st, 2015
I have maxed the soekris net 6501 I have with 12 interfaces. 5 are used and
5 are possibly going to be used in the near future.
It took 3 years or so to assemble all this, finally it's completed. The
latch to make sure the cards don't move did not fit in and I couldn't screw
it on, too bad.. a slight misdesign by soekris. One just has to be careful
with this one when transporting it.
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OpenBSD 5.8 Pre-orders are on
August 19th, 2015
I have preordered my copy of OpenBSD 5.8 which will be released on October 18
which deraadt says is the anniversary of a Makefile he first committed in the
OpenBSD tree. It's the OS's 20th anniversary. If you're interested in
obtaining OpenBSD on CDROM go to https://openbsdstore.com and look for OpenBSD
version 5.8. Be sure to click on the EU symbol if you want to pay in euros.
With my preorder I also ordered a poster this time. It should look good in my
apartment.
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And still in the Rush...
August 17th, 2015
I couldn't resist looking at raspberry pi stuff and came across a battery
pack unit. I thought this was good for a portable CryptoPi made the same
way as a CryptoBook, only cheaper. If it works out I'll be able to exchange
it with my Uncle who by now is in possession of the silver cryptobook.
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Still in a Consumer Rush
August 16th, 2015
I'm still in a consumer rush. I hope it quells soon. I just purchased
another quad gigabit ethernet card for my soekris router. This brings
the gigabit ports on the soekris to twelve. I'm also very interested in
the raspberry pi for some reason again. Not so much the rpi that I have
but the rpi 2 which has double the RAM and 4 cores. If I were to put together
the soekris and 10 RPI boards I'd have a small supercomputer. I'm currently
testing the possibility of this. I'm brainstorming uses too.
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I started shuffling my $HOME/.ssh directory
August 10th, 2015
There have been reports (real reports) of firefox allowing a remote attacker
from reading ssh keys. To make it harder on the attacker I'm shuffling my
.ssh directory with this script:
#!/bin/sh
TMPDIR=`mktemp -u /home/pjp/.ssh-XXXXXXXXX`
BASE=`basename $TMPDIR`
SSHLOCATIONX=`find .ssh* -name sshlocation -print`
SSHLOCATION=`dirname $SSHLOCATIONX`
mv /home/pjp/${SSHLOCATION} $TMPDIR
sed -e "s/@XXXXXXXXXX@/${BASE}/g" \
/home/pjp/.ssh/config.template > /home/pjp/.ssh/config
exit 0
An Identityfile entry in my config file points to the right id_rsa file. Which
btw is passphrased, thank god! It would be folly I believe to have no
passphrase on my ssh keys. Don't be lazy!
I shuffle every 5 minutes per crontab.
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Spampd and taking the -T out
August 9th, 2015
I must have wasted 2 hours trying to get spampd to work on a FreeBSD jail with
most recent ports. This was the error message:
Aug 09 11:15:51 testmail spampd[86796]: 2015/08/09-11:15:51 Insecure dependency
in open while running with -T switch at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Net/ \
Server/Daemonize.pm line 75. at line 179 in file /usr/local/lib/perl5/ \
site_perl/Net/Server.pm
I tried everything, permissions, and ownership changes and all would work. So
finally I figured out that -T belongs to perl and not spampd or spamassassin.
when taking it out in /usr/local/sbin/spampd in the first line it worked. I
don't know enough of the implications of this but I'm sick of wasting a
sunday afternoon on a stupid -T. It stays off.
root@testmail:/usr/local/etc/rc.d # perl --version
This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for amd64-freebsd-thread-multi
Copyright 1987-2015, Larry Wall
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Ordered a Book from Amazon
August 9th, 2015
I bought Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, by
McKusick et al. Second edition! Having looked through this book I can
tell it'll be insightful. I bought the Design and Implementation of the
4.4BSD Operating System from the same author around 1996. I had struggled
with it, it's not an easy read and they recommend a Tanenbaum for newbies
first. Which I did, (buy a Tanenbaum) and it was worth it. Now only I hope
there is some similarities left between FreeBSD and OpenBSD like mbuf's. :-).
Can't port something without understanding both systems anyhow. So.. that
only leaves someone to write Design and Implementation of the OpenBSD System,
hint hint. Anyhow I think this McKusick book will be great.
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.. and a Riddim
August 8th, 2015
There is only four songs on the Cloud Nine Riddim. But it's sweet. Too bad
they couldn't pack-in an instrumental to this.
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Bought Reggae
August 6th, 2015
I have purchased Romain Virgo's album "The System", it's an older album but
I used to watch his videos on youtube.
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CryptoBooks virtualized
August 2nd, 2015
In order to make use of cryptobook in more parts of my family I have
virtualized it. That sorta defeats the point but buying a cryptobook
does tend to get expensive. Here is a vmware version of cryptobook:
And here is a virtualbox version of cryptobook:
These aren't for sale unfortunately.
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