May 15, 2009 0
Twitter in Plain English
Dear friends and family who don’t “get” twitter.. please watch this:
May 15, 2009 0
Dear friends and family who don’t “get” twitter.. please watch this:
May 26, 2008 2
My wife gets excited about quilting, crafting, and baking. I get excited about geeking:
From http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/index.php:
Highlights of DD-WRT v24:
- Virtual SSIDs, Virtual DHCP-Servers, PPTP over WAN enhencements, Bridging + VLAN support, VDSL Support, OLSR-Routing / Freifunk, My Ad Network (powered by AnchorFree), Quaqqa instead of Bird (in X86 + Xscale default), PPPOE-Server, EOIP-Tunnel, Network configuration enhencements, UP-Downstream (QOS), New Packet Scheduler HFSC, Save & Apply, extended DDNS options, extended status information, New Languages, Sipwerk integrated Milkfish into the new release, turning every DD-WRT router into a SIP-aware firewall.
We had a few of these back in SA, configured with cunning international routing, VPNing, etc.
They weren’t that user-friendly though.. I think I’d rather setup a Tomato-based WRT54GL for regular use, and just play with the DD-WRT for specialized projects
Nov 8, 2007 0
Dear friends and family,
Before I address the main point of this rant, let me say this…
…while I appreciate the invitations you send me, I’d rather not become a werewolf, zombie, pirate, vampire, food-thrower, garden-grower, dragon-tamer, people-seller, lover-rater, cancer-hater, fish-giver, etc… Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 14, 2007 0
Thank you to all you Aucklanders who turned up for my humble presentation last night. I presented a few slides on the theory of wireless cracking, and then we jumped right into a practical demonstration. We failed to crack a WEP key with 400,000 IVs the traditional way (I suspect the firmware outsmarted us), but succeeded using PTW to crack WEP ARP data with 45,000 packets.
We moved onto a wordlist attack on a WPA network, which worked exactly as expected, kicking clients off the network with deauthentication injections, and snagging their WPA handshakes. It took less than a second to wordlist the WPA password, but the wordlist was rigged with only about 8 entries, one of which was correct
We finished off the evening by exploring OpenWRT, and flashing my WRT54GL back to Linksys firmware, and then back to OpenWRT again.
It was great to meet you all, and it’s my observation that Linux communities around the world share common traits – friendliness, geekiness (the good kind), and an excitement for technology
I’ve put the slides for last night’s presentation here
Below is a list of links for some of the software we discussed last night:
Jul 16, 2007 3
My wife and I differ on our Facebook philosophies. Maybe it’s one of those gender-specific things. Her rule is “don’t befriend me unless you really want to talk to me“. She’s a woman. She wants to connect. To relate. To be more than a status icon on somebody’s hundreds-of-friends list.
My rule is “befriend me. Maybe we’ll even talk“. It’s a sad fact that my daily life is so crowded, with so many actions, inputs, and open loops, that unless I notice you on Twitter, IM, email, Facebook, or “RealLife” (probably in that order of update frequency!), we’re going to miss each other.
So, the big personal advantages of Facebook for me, is my newfound ability to keep in touch with friends near and far, with minimal effort. I’ve found old school buddies, family members, and new friends. I check that handy little mini-feed, and now I know that my cousin is traveling, a friend is immigrating to Switzerland, my sister started teaching again yesterday, and another friend is currently in Peru.
So, if I befriend you, but don’t engage you, I’m not “using” you, I’m “hanging out” with you, mostly in comfortable silence
Jul 11, 2007 0
This page has moved to http://www.funkypenguin.info/blog/2007/07/11/prevent-openwrt-blocking-pptp-connections
Jul 11, 2007 0
I’m excited to be attending the WellyLUG ([[Wellington]] [[Linux Users Group]]) meeting on 20 Aug 2007. As discussed this morning on the LUG, I’ll be giving a presentation on penetrating WEP / WPA wireless networks, how to avoid said penetration with an open source, flashed, [[WRT54GL]], and how to integrate your [[Squid Cache]] with [[Active Directory]] to provide detailed user activity logs.
Please post any comments or requests here
Jul 10, 2007 0
I’m hoping to visit the various LUGs during our trip to New Zealand, and have noticed that a LUG sometimes has trouble in securing a speaker for a particular month. This lead me to thinking about the topics on which I could potentially speak. I’m hardly an expert, but I have enough experience in the following fields to give an interesting presentation:
I could go on and on, but these were my initial thoughts, and probably the ones I’d have the most fun presenting
Jul 6, 2007 0
I found this CommonCraft video on Simon’s blog. It explains, with the use of simple, paper-based pictures, how social networking works, and why it’s a good idea. They also have tutorials on RSS, and Wikis. [gv data="6a_KF7TYKVc"][/gv]