Sparking Hotdogs

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Last night I warmed up a hotdog for my 2 year-old son. Normally I warm up the dog first and then cut it into slices but it struck me that I would burn my fingers less if I reversed the process. So that's what I did. The upshot was that the dog started sparking! Yeah, I was pretty amazed too.

Here's the question I sent off to Bar-S, the maker of my otherwise tasty meat:

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IAX2 peering with Asterisk

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At work I've been pushing my boss to use Asterisk for our phone system. It's a voice over IP (VoIP) based PBX for Linux and boy is it awesome. Over the last few weeks he's started to succumb to my threats and I've got a basic system up and running. Tonight I set up a peering arrangement with a friend of mine.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

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Title: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Developer: Ubisoft
Rating: T
Released: 2002
Platform: Gamecube

My lovely wife got me this game for Christmas. Her brother-in-law recommended it to us as an intense game that required a lot of thought. It sure lived up to that description. Overall I enjoyed the game quite thoroughly and would recommend it to anyone else who likes to sneak around. Bring your patience.

Protect your privacy

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Scam artist have moved into the digital world. With pretty much everything being done electronically these days, it's easy to see why. Just by snagging a couple key pieces of information, like account numbers, passwords, or social security numbers they can wreak some major havoc. Who raised such rotten people, anyway?

Luckily, there's a few simple things you can do to separate yourself from the rest of the herd. Just like the old saying goes, "I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you."

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SSH Lockout 0.3.1 Released

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I've release SSH Lockout 0.3.1 today. I quietly released 0.3.0 a few days ago but just discovered a few bugs in it that warrant a new release. I sorta figured that would be the case and that's why I didn't announce it.

New in this release are whitelists, a user configurable iptables system call, and blacklist purging. The program also now runs tainted just in case somebody gets a funny idea.

SSH Lockout 0.3.1

Making Video CDs

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Something I've been toying with pretty much ever since I got a CD burner is making Video CDs, or VCDs. If you're not familiar with the format, just think of a DVD only a lot shorter and lower quality. Boy, with features like that how can you pass it up? *grin*

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SSH Lockout Tool

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A few weeks ago a guy on a mailing list I'm on asked if there was a way to lock out users who generate too many failed SSH logins. You see, there's a worm going around that tries to guess passwords and break in to your machine. There's not a lot you can do if your users have poorly chosen passwords. Well, now there is.

File types and extension

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To a computer, all data is just bits. It has no way of looking at a series of bits and just knowing what sort of data it is. So that picture of Aunt Lulu is completely indistinguishable from your web browser. That's actually a great feature but it has some drawbacks, the most annoying one being that when you double click on a file the computer can't know with 100% certainty what to do with that file. Instead, programmers have come up with some clever ideas to tell the computer what type of file it is.

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