Archive for December, 2005



In 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

I 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 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 [...]

Interesting article on how to link to Mac computers using Bluetooth.

This 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 [...]

Honestidad

“Solo hay una forma de saber si un hombre es honesto: preguntárselo. Y si responde “sí”, sabes que es un corrupto.”
Groucho Marx

Política

“La política es el arte de buscar problemas, encontrarlos, hacer un diagnostico falso y aplicar después los remedios equivocados.”
Groucho Marx

La televisión

“La televisión ha hecho maravillas por mi cultura. En cuanto alguien enciende la televisión, voy a la biblioteca y me leo un buen libro.”
Groucho Marx

Comenta 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 [...]

The 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 [...]