So, with my new USB memory stick, I decided to throw a bootable minidistribution on it. Doesn’t really help for my Thinkpad, but the other laptops will boot off of it, not to mention it’s just a really freaking handy thing to have.
I started out with Damn Small Linux. Not too shabby, but feels more like a rescue distro than something actually usable. Then I went for DSL-N, which is its “big sister”, and we got a bit closer to the mark. My goal was basically to get Knoppix in under 1G and have some space left over.
Then I found Puppy Linux. It feels the difference between buying generic and name-brand drugs — not much. And it works great. There was a little trickery involved in booting it, though: I used syslinux instead of isolinux, so I did the same stuff you have to do to get DSL to boot off USB — basically, renaming isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. On top of that, syslinux.cfg has “PMEDIA=idecd”. This needed to be changed to “PMEDIA=usbcd”. After that, everything works flawlessly.
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I have three laptops right now. An IBM Thinkpad A50m (”crossbone” (or “bones”), which has never steered me wrong — it was unhappy with its hard drive earlier this morning, so I booted with init=/bin/sh, ran e2fsck with badblocks, rebooted, and it’s been chugging along all day per usual), a Compaq Presario V5000 (”widget”, Marie’s laptop, which has some issues), and a Toshiba Satellite which I’m too lazy to put down my cig and go look at to get a model number off of.
The Satellite isn’t actually mine, I’m just fixing it for a corporal of Marines.
Here’s the deal. (more…)
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I just found a new reason to hate Myspace: A big “ARE YOU GAY? Take our quiz to find out!” ad at the bottom. Newsflash: I don’t need an intarweeb quiz to tell me if I’m gay or not. Hell, here you go:
There you go. If you don’t know which one you are, you probably still think girls (or guys?) are ucky.
I know Myspace probably isn’t the only place running the ad, but were it not for Myspace, I never would have seen it.
Anyway.
I bought a 1G USB stick at Fry’s (USD $12.99, when did these things get so F’n cheap?), and I’ve been experimenting with different things to put on it, mostly live distributions. Damn Small Linux and DSL-N are the least painful so far. Eventually, I’d like to reimplement my old system of having the encrypted filesystem on it with all my private keys (SSH, GPG, etcetera)…
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I was going to make some really insightful and witty post last night. Then I forgot what the hell it was about because I had company.
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Morph has managed to fuck everything up with the site lately. Everyone say thank you, Morph.
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After a few hours of playing with my BIND9 config, I finally figured out how to get it to accept queries from local nets, and give a REFUSED for others.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but this is what I got to work as I expected it to.
acl "known" {
/*
** Wireless and wired clients.
** All known (xbox, ps2, etc.)
*/
192.168.0.0/16;
/* No comment */
127.0.0.0/8;
};
acl "guests" {
/*
** Wireless net 2, open
*/
10.0.0.0/8;
};
view "known" {
match-clients { known; guests; };
/*
** Usual stuff goes here
*/
};
/* This chunk denies everyone else */
view "other" {
match-clients { };
allow-query { };
};
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So, I think I figured out what the Xbox360’s problem was: it can’t deal with more than a class C. I put it on a class B with 192.168.1.50, told it the router was 192.168.0.1, and it barfed horribly. I split it onto a class C with a 192.168.1.1 router, and it worked fine. Fucking stupids.
Also, the PSP theme has been updated, for all zero of you out there reading this on a PSP. (Note: clicking link, assuming you’re allowing cookies, will change the current theme.)
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UPOC basically lets you set up a profile and message groups and individuals with your cell phone. Most of the stuff coming out of it is “a/s/l?” and “bottom looking for top in <city> tonite! msg me info” (sic).
The first message is a broadcast. The rest are privmsgs.
[Fr:me-joyous]To:USMarineCorp Hello anyone want to chat
[Fr:xcuervo] Hi
[Fr:me-joyous] Hi
[Fr:me-joyous] a/s/l
[Fr:xcuervo] … Never mind.
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