Conversations with a fridge

I swear this just happened in my head;

Me: apt-get install beer
Fridge: E: Couldn't find package beer

I am upset.

LFS Nostalgia

Those of you interested in Live For Speed, and fancy a blast from the old* days, or want to see what pre-S2 was like, might be interested in checking out this thread on the official forums.

I've simply patched the executables to look at the new master address, ensuring the executable size remained the same and with a little bit of luck discovered that the master server is still serving requests from older clients to unlock.

I'd recommend using 0.3H6, the last official S1 release. For a while you should find a 0.3H dedicated server running with 15 slots, voting and select map enabled.

* I say old days, this is of course not as far back as you can go. It is the most requested, non-current, client for unlock over the last few weeks though.

Keys

My OpenPGP key has been revoked and all relevant key servers updated. I will be distributing a new one shortly.

Please ammend your key chains as appropriate.

Social networking^Wmonitoring

After a few hours of sniffing the local wireless traffic I find it somewhat depressing that the majority of the traffic is orientated around MSN messenger and MySpace. I also find it somewhat depressing that people still run wireless without any "real" protection. Whilst WEP is crackable within minutes on a respectable PDA these days, it's better than nothing. It at least stops someone, such as myself, simply placing their wireless device in monitor mode and sitting in range of the network.

Why am I doing this? One, because I'm bored. Two, because I'm interested in the demographic of the area, and three because I'm considering the protection to implement on my home network when I redeploy it and I'm testing some theories.

Whilst allowing an access point with open access, firewalling it from the internal network and then only allowing VPN in to the internal network is an "industry standard", it does seem somewhat overkill.. Fun though!

Enigform

Whilst browsing through yesterday's Apache HTTPd Modules-Dev mailing list emails, I came across an email from the Enigform "creator".

This is the first time I've come across this project, and actually looked into it. Naturally anything anyone considers writing an Apache Module for must be interesting! I won't bother going into depth explaining what it is, or why it's a good thing, but something that does interest me is integrating it into existing applications as an alternative method of data authentication, with graceful degradation to standard logon methods when unavailable. Imagine a world where signing on / up to a web service involved typing your name and adding your public key. Of course there are a few issues with compatibility, expiration, lost keys, etc. but interesting nonetheless.

Yet another thing to chalk up onto the To Do list. Unless anyone feels like beating me to the punch on this one as well ;)

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