What I did on my vacation from reality

February 22, 2007

Don’t ask me where this came from

Filed under: Drunk and incoherent, Geek, Main, wtf — cuervo @ 9:51 pm -- Popularity: 1% [?]

Okay, dig this.

I’ve got my laptop — a PIII with 312M, running Linux — doing DHCP to two different subnets on one wlan (hostap) interface, with two networks, 10.0.0.0 and 192.168.0.0. The 192 net is for known hosts, e.g., my girlfriend’s laptop and my PSP, and the 10 net is for unknowns, e.g., neighbors. From there, I can do traffic shaping, intercepting, or whatever I feel like.

Do this with Windows. Any build, any version, any way you like.

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February 21, 2007

Uncle Sam wants YOU

Filed under: Main, wtf — cuervo @ 1:42 pm -- Popularity: 1% [?]

Uncle Sam wants YOU... to pwn newbs

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February 20, 2007

I need a job

Filed under: Main, wtf — cuervo @ 6:22 pm -- Popularity: 1% [?]

I think it’s funny how unemployed people (like me, sort of) always say “I need a job”.

People do not need jobs. They need money.

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Ghost Rider

Filed under: Drunk and incoherent, Main, wtf — cuervo @ 7:01 am -- Popularity: 1% [?]

Ghost Rider.

Rent it. Better yet, pirate it.

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February 19, 2007

WOW.

Filed under: Main, usmc — cuervo @ 12:49 am -- Popularity: 1% [?]

I just got back from having dinner with my girlfriend. We went to one of those restaurants where everything is overpriced, and there’s a wine menu with stuff you can’t afford, and all that fun stuff. We estimated our tab at about $130. I was wearing charlies.

As we were waiting for the check, one of the hostesses told us that the tab had been paid.

We have just lost cabin pressure.

I was floored. Someone else had straight out paid our entire bill. Anonymously. We asked who, she said they’d already left.

To the anonymous party who picked up our tab: thank you. Thank you very much. It was truly above and beyond anything I could have imagined, and that right there made my day, week, month, and year.

Also, someone shook my hand and thanked me for serving our country at the supermarket. That was cool, too.

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February 15, 2007

PSP RSS generator

Filed under: Code, Geek, Main — cuervo @ 10:44 am -- Popularity: 1% [?]

Updated PSP RSS generator. If you call it with “?randomize=true”, it’ll randomize the output, since I’ve found the PSP can only handle the first 100 items in the feed. (TODO: Break it up into segments.)

Also, I went from just spitting out XML to actually using the XML::RSS module (which I initially hated, for some reason, but whatever, it works, and it’s easier to read (for you and me both)).

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I see, said the blind man

Filed under: Main — cuervo @ 1:25 am -- Popularity: 1% [?]

I turned down the CAPTCHA a bit. You should actually be able to read the letters now.

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February 14, 2007

8010c08f?!

Filed under: Code, Geek, Main — cuervo @ 8:43 pm -- Popularity: 1% [?]

In my Googling for interesting things to do with my PSP, I came across some sites that mentioned streaming MP3s to it by using an RSS feed with links to the MP3s, instead of saving each one to the memory stick (since I have a crappy little memory stick).

Incidentally, error code 8010c08f means the RSS is invalid — look for invalid characters like ampersands (&) in the XML.

Anyway, here’s a little program to recurse into a directory and spit out all the MP3s it finds.

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February 13, 2007

State of the Goatse

Filed under: Geek, Main — cuervo @ 4:00 am -- Popularity: 1% [?]

Like I said earlier, I’ve been playing a lot on my PSP.

Which got me to thinking, and playing with GoatseAP.

A lot of people have been saying, “Meester Cuervo, whyfor have you not used iptables and shit, instead of all this f’n Apache/BIND/DHCP runaround?”. Including one I went on a job interview with. (I guess I didn’t get the job, since they haven’t called back, but I’m not too broken up about it. (Wonder if you’re still reading my blog. :P))

Anyway: the reason, I finally recalled[0], was that GoatseAP, as I’ve currently described it, is self-contained. You can have a laptop without an internet connection and still run things. But all the times that same question has been asked got me to wondering, and so I started playing with things.

Ladies and gentlemen, GoatseFW is in the works.

[0] The Marine Corps will fuck your brain up.

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February 12, 2007

Hello, world

Filed under: Geek, Main — cuervo @ 2:08 am -- Popularity: 1% [?]

I know I haven’t been around very much lately. I’ve… been… doing… stuff? I wish I could say “working”.

Anyway, I’ve been playing SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo online a lot lately (which makes the girlfriend go :-( and sometimes >:-(, but I gotta pwn noobs every once in a while). Which reminds me: nobody seems to have done any work analyzing the SOCOM protocols. Even I got as far as figuring out how to turn the mics on and off at will and figuring out players’ IPs when they used the mics, then got distracted, possibly by something shiny. (Yes, I know Fireteam Bravo 2 is out. And Combined Assault. I hate you.)

The weather sucks, the job market sucks, blah blah blah, nothing else to report at this time.

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