The combination of rkhunter and the latest stable Linux kernel has been giving me problems the last few days. Considering that I couldn’t find anything about this on the Internet, I guess it must be something special about my box. rkhunter makes my server hang when it gets to the part where it checks for [...]
Archive > August 2008
Mythbusters at NVISION 2008
I just saw this funny video. The Mythbusters go and compare how a CPU and how a GPU draw things. Considering it’s the Mythbusters, it’s not really surprising that they use robots and paintball to demonstrate. Here ist the video
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg
The second part in high resolution:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FllMX9dFmWg
Hartknäckige Scriptkiddies
Seit gestern Abend versucht irgendein Scriptkiddie mein SSH zu Bruteforce’n. Das an sich ist eigentlich nichts erwähnenswertes da es zum täglichen Müll gehört (wie die Spammer die offene Mail Relays suchen) und eigentlich zum allgemein “Rauschen” im Internet gehört. Nach ein paar Fehlversuche landet bei mir die IP automatisch für eine gewisse Zeit auf eine [...]
POV.1 and Sony Vegas
I own both the POV.1 Helmet Camera and Sony Vegas 8 (Movie Studio). Now, one would think editing videos made by the helmet cam would be no problem with Vegas … For some stupid reason, Vegas won’t read the video part of Xvid encoded files. It obviously isn’t because of missing codecs, since vlc has [...]
Waterfall art
I just stumbled across this youtube video. I found the technical idea behind it cleverly simple. Have a look for yourself:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeUixe_Lpg
Cisco kleinigkeiten
Zwei Kleinigkeiten die ich heute beim scripten nachschlagen musste:
- “terminal length 0″ lässt das, beim scripten, nervige “– more –” verschwinden
- neben “include” und “exclude” kann man beim pipe | auch “begin” benutzen. z.B. “sh run | b router ospf”
Programming follow up
I just noticed I never wrote a follow up about my script that periodically parses the official World of Warcraft statistics. Unsurprisingly I wrote a basic Web interface to access the stored data. Since I stopped actively playing Warcraft the project kinda faded off my “todo radar”. So it has been stuck on my development [...]
