Archive for December, 2005
View man pages using Preview.app
1 Comment Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 31st, 2005 in Apple, Mac OS XIn this article I learnt how to use the command-line to browse formatted man pages using Preview.app:
man -t whatever | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
QoS with OpenWRT
3 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 30th, 2005 in Networking, OpenWRTI use the following script for my Linksys WRT54GS Wireless router running OpenWRT White Russian -RC4 to setup a QoS firewall that uses Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB) and Stochastic Fair Queueing (SFQ) to classify the traffic in three cathegories:
Interactive, high priority traffic:
This class is used for DNS traffic and SSH traffic.
Interactive, normal priority traffic:
This class [...]
No a la censura.
No, al menos, en un país democrático como España. No, al menos, en un país donde ya existen formas de evitar el abuso de la libertad de expresión, manifestadas en forma de leyes porque desde siempre, e incluso durante la República, el derecho a legislar sobre la libertad de información y la [...]
Create a Bluetooth Mac-to-Mac network
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 28th, 2005 in Apple, Bluetooth, Mac OS X, NetworkingInteresting article on how to link to Mac computers using Bluetooth.
Configuring syslog-ng to store logs into a MySQL database
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 21st, 2005 in MySQL, Security, SyslogThis short article describes how to configure syslog-ng in order to store the logs into a MySQL backend. This adds more flexibility when performing log analysis, log searching and correlation.
Installing MySQL
MySQL can be compiled from source and installed using the FreeBSD ports collection:
# cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server/
# make install distclean
Configuring MySQL
Use the following commands to create the [...]
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Defense seldom wins a war
1 Comment Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 19th, 2005 in PersonalComenta Richard Bejtlich en su diario:
When the attacker is allowed freedom of maneuver, the defender will lose. The side with initiative has the superior position, unless the defenses are so unsurmountable that attack is more costly than defense. Let’s return to the Famous Romans lecture for a moment. Prior to the rule of the emperor [...]
Controlling the WRT54G/GS leds
6 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 11th, 2005 in OpenWRTThe Cisco/Linksys WRT54G/GS router has two leds just beneath the Cisco Systems logo. One is a white led, while the other is an amber led. It is possible to turn them on or off using the GPIO pins on the mainboard.
GPIO #3 controls the amber led beneath the Cisco Systems logo:
Disabling GPIO #3 turns on [...]
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