I bought myself a laptop this week. To be more precise I bought a MSI Wind U100 “Luxury” version in white with 2GB Ram. It arrived today, and I have been spending most of the afternoon setting up Windows. I must say, I’m positively surprised about how good it works and the default setup. It [...]
Archive > October 2008
Hackit Server downtime
Sorry for the downtime, wasn’t planned. It was late last night when I set up the knock daemon, I somehow managed to accidently copy and past my terminal which resulted in about a quarter of my /etc/init.d/* scripts getting broken. Unfortunatly I didn’t notice it right away. I did notice it when I rebooted the [...]
knock daemon with INPUT chain set to default ACCEPT
I know there are plenty of pages floating around the Internet about knock daemons that open ports in a firewall after a predefined series of ports are “knocked”. For some reason ALL the pages I found assumed that a) you want the filter in your INPUT chain, and that the INPUT chain defaulted to DROP [...]
Work
I didn’t get around to updating last week, as of October I’m working at a new company. The new job is fun, and totally different environment (went from a company in the financial sector with 5000+ people to a company that develops and publishes games with around 150 people). The company is real cool, and [...]
