Machine Room Cacophony

Little command-line utils to find deferred/bounced/lost emails to specific providers

A quick reminder/tutorial on downloading track information from a Garmin ETrex Legend.

Often Malware can be downloaded from websites as an accident (hidden iframe content on compromised websites) or may need to communicate to an update server or control server across the Internet. This can be cut off with the use of the DNS and your local cache & recursive resolver.

Someone asked how to set this up quickly and easily… the idea being:
1) you have a host somewhere on the interwebs that’s accessible via SSH and runs a squid/proxy for you
2) you have a macintosh
3) you don’t normally do unix-y things
4) you’d like a command-line quick and easy setup to allow you to proxy your traffic (web/chat) through your ssh host and sqiud

Hardy Heron installs just nicely, but it’s got some issues when it comes to moderate traffic loads and NAT state maintenance…

There are a host of well known (to security folks at the least) nuisance networks. This is a set of simple iptables rules to drop those networks as sources.

a quicky upgrade tutorial for the AP1220 series aironet wireless access-point.

So, after a period of time your GPG key will expire, if you want it to expire, that’s good news. If you happen to still be using it, not so good news. Simple un-expire instructions follow.

I wanted to take the parts of GeekTool and this lifehacker column on taking gCal and displaying it on your macintosh desktop which is fully documented by Devan Goldstein though I admit that he uses some tricks I’d rather avoid.

The long and sad story of complying with ARIN policies with respect to private residence SWIP information.