Boys and their toys
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Placeholder for an April post: About… an encounter with… AirSoft
Beware the Ides of March. Class struggle in 44 BC
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Gaius Cassius Longinus: You might wish as you will. We yet have the Senate behind us and all the men of quality.
Marcus Antonius: And I… have an angry mob… that will roast and eat your men of quality in the ashes of the Senate house!
In the wake of Gaius Julius Caesar’s assassination, and his own brilliant eulogy rousing Rome’s masses against Caesar’s assassins, Mark Antony, in his inimitable way, denigrating the Optimates’ misplaced confidence in the ability of Rome’s patricians to shield them from the public’s fury. The conspirators left Rome soon afterwards. In haste.
From the first episode of the second season of the BBC/HBO mini-series Rome.
Conanisms: Feb., 07
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Political experts are now saying that to win the Presidency in 2008, a candidate has to get hot at the right time. After hearing this, Bill Clinton said, “Hillary’s doomed.”
Ozzy Osbourne announced that he’s going to perform at this year’s Ozzfest without getting paid. Afterwards, the concert’s promoter said, “Don’t tell Ozzy, but we haven’t paid him for over 12 years.”
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OpenBSD: Wireless Access Point on a Unix router
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As promised, here we go:
This guide will detail the process of turning an existing OpenBSD firewall/router/gateway into a wireless access point. The resultant machine will then be able to provide packet filtering, routing, and other services to both wired and wireless clients.
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Irony at its best
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Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, died 10 December, 2006, a day observed throughout the world as International Human Rights Day.
For the Argentinian desaparecidos, this might be, in a lot of ways,
the best form of retribution fate might hand to the man who
presided over Argentina’s ”Dirty War,” a man who will go down in
history being credited with the quote “Human Rights? Those are just the
invention of the Marxists.”
OpenBSD: Free of wires, free of wires. Thank God Almighty, I am free of wires.
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Generally a success story, yeah. But I’m too lazy right now to tap out a “How-To.” l’ll just run through some “points” as guideposts for anyone with a hankering to run a UNIX-based Wireless Access Point-cum-firewall/router/gateway:
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One month of stunned online silence
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TBH I’m not sure myself what happened. Suffice it to say it was, well, oh so pleasant. Yes. Very.
