At work a while back, we had hundreds of K of ICMP going to our router and we couldn’t figure out why. We threw a sniiffer on our network and take a look at the enclosed and censored screenshot. Notice the part in the yellow box and the 5 second intervals. I […]

Last show with my band last night. Was a really great time. Lots of people showed. At least 50, maybe more. Which was impressive considering the cold.
The best part was at the end. We blew the power in the place. Very suiting for our last show. The whole […]

Was thinking about writing a Perl script to check dictionary domain names still available when I found that waxy.org had already thought of it.
So I found hexameter.com was still available so I spent the $7 to get it and been playing around with a really, really simple artsy type layout just to blow off some […]

Found this and I’m sure it’s old news to anyone who’s used soap.
It’s from the xmethods website which has a list of web services, some work, others don’t.

Nothing notable, just trying to get Eclipse3.0M3 to work with Lomboz, new version of JBoss and importing all my old projects. Lomboz was really flaky in previous versions and I’m hoping for some reliability improvements.

Played around with Opera 7.1. Very nice rendering, but a little buggy. Horrible mail client. Uninstalled all older versions of Mozilla on my workstation and went with Mozilla 1.4a. Was an adventure.

Got rid of evolution. Love it, but it’s not GTK2 yet. The GTK2 beta is too unstable. […]

I removed the unwieldly wu-ftp stuff from the server today (wieldiness is proportional to my own knowledge) and replaced it with the ever promising ProFTP server. Of notability is its ability to avoid recursive DNS lookups which were slowing things down. If I see an attack, I’ll just do a whois.