I am overwhelmed
Did I mention I hate school?
These projects suck ass
January 30, 2004
January 29, 2004
Someone emailed me some amazing pictures of some chalk work done on the streets of England (I think). Keep in mind when looking at these photos that they’re drawn on flat surfaces. Amazing.
January 28, 2004
As I sit with several domain names available at my disposal, I got to thinking that this may be the way one could combat spam — registering your own domainname. Let me explain.
So I have the domain “realistek.com” and I want to register for an Ebay account. Instead of simply giving “gudlyff@realistek.com”, I’d instead register “ebay@realistek.com” which would just point to my inbox. Now I can easily filter mail appropriately as it comes through. Not only that, but I can tell which places gave my email address out to spaming companies and act accordingly. I can also give out addresses like “mike.hunt@realistek.com” and “jim.johnson@realistek.com” for individuals. If I don’t want to hear from them anymore, *poof*, I delete the address.
An even better way to make sure your address isn’t guessed is to give out nonsense addresses, like “tfg57@realistek.com”, which you would just make a note of who that address is assigned to.
I can’t imaging this is a new idea, but I figured I’d post it anyway.
January 26, 2004
If it’s not Scottish, it’s CRAP!
Don’t ask me how the hell I got that link.
January 25, 2004
January 22, 2004
OK, so I have this project in my class at B.U. that’s requiring that we do research on IEEE articles via the IEEE Xplore website. The big PITA there is that I can’t access that website outside of B.U.. Access is granted via IP based authentication, which means you need to be accessing that site via a system on B.U.’s address block in order to use it.
In case someone out there’s ever interested in knowing how you can defeat this inconvenience, here are the steps I took in order to access the Xplore website from home, work, etc., by passing my data through SSH port forwarding. It’s basic ssh stuff, but still handy to mention here (and as far as I know this is not illegal! You need a B.U. login in order to do this, so that’s legitimate enough).
- Make sure you have an account on some B.U. system that you can ssh into. Here I use metcs.bu.edu as an example.
- Make sure your system isn’t running a web server on port 80. If so, kill it.
- Become superuser on your system — you have to do this in order to forward a priveleged port (80)
- # ssh -N -L 80:ieeexplore.ieee.org:80 username@metcs.bu.edu
- Open another shell. As root, edit /etc/hosts and make ieeexplore.ieee.org an alias for 127.0.0.1
- Open your web browser to http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/DynWel.jsp.
- Voila! You can now use the IEEE Xplore facilities as if you were sitting at a B.U. terminal.
If you need to do this on a Windows system, install Cygwin.
UPDATE: B.U. has an off-campus proxy server that the professor refused to tell us about, or maybe he just didn’t know. So about the above….nevermind.
January 21, 2004
” I wouldn’t want to be the alien that has to do all the anal probing. I mean c’mon! Have you seen the people that get abducted?” — loserbert
In an exclusive C-SPAN news conference, national security officials have announced several key consipriators expected to be plotting terrorist attacks against the United States. The suspect pictured above is connected with several threats against key U.S. factories, including Nair, Gilette and Advanced Laser Clinics.
