http://mish.eggdrop.ph *BSD notes, Eggdrop, and the random Blah Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:12:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Boy, n.: A noise with dirt on it. http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2009/03/13/fortunes-11/ Coronation, n.: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb. ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2009/03/13/fortunes-10/ True to neglected-category form, I've just recently upgraded my eggdrops from 1.6.18 to... wow... 1.6.19, a little less than seven months after the latest incremental version was released last April 18. YAWN. A one-liner was enough for the upgrade; platform is OpenBSD, running a vanilla GENERIC kernel off 4.3-release: [mish@shell ~]$ ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/15/eggdrop-quick-and-dirty-upgrade-to-1619/ Yey! GMail now officially joins the bandwidth-sucking bandwagon. *groan* How will their offering fare against Yahoo? Will people bite? How will this affect other VoIP providers? Who cares? Somehow I can hear a collective groan from all over the world. It's coming from sysadmins who will have to deal with yet ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/15/gmail-now-has-voice-and-video-chat/ Think of your ISP's DNS (Domain Name Service) servers as your Yellow Pages to the internet. They translate human-readable addresses (hostnames) into the numbers that computers understand (IP addresses). For example, take a web page request for "www.google.com." When you type www.google.com into your browser's address bar, you are essentially telling ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/15/globelines-broadband-dsl-dns-servers/ Voters on CNN's Entertainment Section chose Ishmael Bernal's 1982 classic "Himala" as the "Best Asia-Pacific Movie" of all time. The film bested Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” and Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” among others. The full (short) report here: http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/12/himala-voted-best-asian-film-in-history/ The 104-bit WEP key our home network uses has been in place since the 2nd quarter of this year. Time to change it. WEP is a pain to implement because after changing the key on the OpenBSD firewall/router/gateway/AP, I have to change it manually on all the stations that use wireless ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/12/openbsd-changing-104-bit-wep-keys/ PATATAG will be holding a much-awaited reunion benefit concert on the 21st of this month at the 70s Bistro. Proceeds will be for the benefit of one of their ailing members. Entrance will set you back P500.00, the cost of purchasing a 3-CD pack/set of their albums. If you think it's ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/11/patatag-nov-21-reunion-concert-at-the-70s-bistro/ In the previous post, I wrote about mounting a USB stick on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Here's how you do it on OpenBSD. OS version is 4.3-current; the pen drive is still the same 2Gb Imation stick used in the last post. Plug the stick in, and check dmesg(8) output. Here's how dmesg ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/11/openbsd-mounting-a-usb-stick/ I keep forgetting basic stuff like this. So, here goes: I'll be trying to mount a 2Gb Imation USB stick on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. All of this will be done as root. Yeah, I know, evil and all that. Mounting it as an unprivileged user will be for another post. After plugging ... http://mish.eggdrop.ph/2008/11/10/freebsd-mounting-a-usb-stick/