Archive for September, 2005



Leo un artículo en Versión Cero que contiene el siguiente párrafo:

Significativo es el caso de la historia contada por un antropólogo en su libro sobre los pigmeos. Recuerdo vivamente esta historia. Fueron todos a cazar, incluido el antropólogo. Y lograron cazar un gran buey salvaje. Mientras iban de camino a la aldea con la pieza [...]

I have been thinking for a while to implement incremental, cyclical backups on my home network. The problem with cyclical backups to tape is that they are slow. The problem with cyclical backups to disk is that they consume a great deal of space. I finally opted for cyclical backups to disk since my DDS-3 [...]

The rsync software that comes with Mac OS X 10.4, and newer releases, supports extended attributes (HFS+ resource forks). This means it can sync files from a local HFS+ filesystem to a remote volume which does not suport HFS+ resource forks by using AppleDouble encoding.
The AppleDouble encoding splits a native HFS+ file in two parts:

The [...]

Static routes are stored in a NVRAM variable called static_route. This NVRAM variable is a blank-delimited list of static route entries. Each entry has the following format:
SUBNET_ADDRESS:SUBNET_MASK:GATEWAY:METRIC:INTERFACE

SUBNET_ADDRESS is the IP subnet address, calculated by applying the netmask to the gateway address, for example.
SUBNET_MASK is the subnet mask used to disguise which part, of a given [...]

Linksys WRT54G (cont.)

I have been playing around with the WRT54G a little bit more.
Instead of acting as a Wireless AP and forwarding traffic to the Internet via the WAN port, I have configured it to forward packets coming from the LAN (via any of the 4-LAN ports) to the Internet via the Wireless interface. The WRT54G will [...]

Linksys WRT54G

Today, I bought a Linksys WRT54G V3.1 Wireless Router from my usual local store. Although it uses a heavily customized Linux version internally, it is quited limited. For instance, it does not allow remote administration via SSH, only through a nice Web interface. So, after playing a little bit with it, I decided to install [...]

In Mac OS X Tiger, the Login Window will now show most users, even if the UID is below 500, unless the account is UID 0 (root) or user whose default shell is set to /dev/null.
Tiger’s login window preferences now supports a new setting called HiddenUsersList, which is an array of one or more user’s [...]