Author Archives
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Mar 11
New howto section
I’ve added a new section to this website containing links to howto’s I’ve written. You can find it here or by clicking the link on the left. The first howto is about using an Alladin eToken Pro 72k with Debian, which you can find here.
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Feb 11
BGP4-MIB support for Bird
I’ve written a small python daemon which exposes parts of Bird through an AgentX interface under the BGP4-MIB. This allows you to poll the BGP status of your Bird installs through SNMP, which in turn allows you to import this status information into applications (for instance, Observium). Unfortunately, BGP4-MIB does not support IPv6, so this [...]
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Dec 10
Wikileaks unreachable?
This morning, everydns.com stopped providing service for wikileaks.org, on the count that: EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the wikileaks.org domain name until 10PM EST, December 2, 2010, when such services were terminated. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net network, this service was provided for free. The termination of services was effected [...]
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Aug 10
Canonical implementing userbase tracking
A quote from a Phoronix page found here: When the canonical-census package is installed, the program is to be added to the daily Cron jobs to be executed so that each day it will report to Canonical over HTTP the number of times this system previously sent to Canonical (this counter is stored locally and [...]
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Mar 10
Some people just don’t get it
For some time I’ve been involved with Soleus, a community-driven non-commercial association which hosts Virtual Private Servers. For quite some time some commercial VPS hosters have been really bothered/feel threatened by Soleus. Currently there are some issues with both our frontend and our storage systems, and this culminated in this childish action… What I don’t [...]
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Oct 09
Evol Intent – Foreword
Sometimes a song can really touch you. I’ve been looking into the big powers that move this world, the people that sheeply obey them and got pretty depressed from it. There is this really good quote from the movie Network, which summons up the action needed from the people. In 2008, Evol Intent released their [...]
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Jul 09
Almost time for the HAR \o/
Just a couple of more nights till the HAR will take off. This weekend, we had the last meeting before the har started. One of the things that was discussed was the map below. Enjoy. I know I will
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Jul 09
Bob Marley – Redemption Song
Old pirates, yes, they rob i; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took i From the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong By the and of the almighty. We forward in this generation Triumphantly. Wont you help to sing These songs of freedom? - cause all I ever have: Redemption [...]