It just dawned on me that I had never actually released webpftable. I wrote this little CGI utility many, many moons ago to allow “trusted” ports to be authenticated before their being opened up to the world on my pf box. I’m just going to paste the introduction to the README here, since I don’t feel like regurgitating it.
webpftable is a (very) simple CGI application that, upon successful authentication against
passwd(5), adds the client's IP address to a pf table.
It is available as a source tarball for FreeBSD (and possibly OpenBSD) systems. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
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webpftable
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Site moved
Sunday, April 25th, 2010First, I’d like to express my most sincere gratitude to Matt Juszczak and atopia.net/bitvenue for having hosted theamigan.net for over 6 years. Not having to pay a dime for hosting with shell and everything else (even root at one time!) on a fast server sitting on a decently fat pipe was quite nice.
But anyway, a while ago, Matt e-mailed me to say he was shutting down pluto (the machine theamigan was served by) and scaling back his webhosting operations. I decided that it was high time I moved my site over to my own server. Yesterday, this became a reality, as I moved the entire theamigan.net domain over to styx (using FreeDNS), my home server (sitting on a “lowly” 20/5 FiOS connection).
Along with this move, hopefully this blog will see more updates, and theamigan itself has a redesign to look forward to. Maybe I’ll actually put some new material up.
rand()
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Well, uh, I probably should be doing something productive. 6 hours ago, I attempted to resign to the task of finishing my stupid-ass AP US History final project. Since then, I’ve done the following:
- Napped
- Procured iced coffee and ice cream
- Installed Debian on my system (I need a DAW with MIDI….which FreeBSD is currently lacking =[)
- Cleaned up my buddylist not once, but twice after signing on using pork on styx added a bunch (~80) of people I had long since removed
- Upgraded pidgin to 2.0.2
Notice how said project is nowhere in that list. C’est la vie…
In other news, well, I don’t know. I have three days of finals next week, and then I am released from prison for about two months, during which time I hope to find work cleaning up after fat slobs after they finish yet another satisfying meal. Again, c’est la vie.
That’s it. Dan out.
amd64, dead babies, Charles Darwin
Friday, January 13th, 2006I recently got the new drive (thanks Matt) and installed FreeBSD/amd64 on it. Suffice it to say that I’m not too impressed.
Firstly, compatibility on amd64 really needs improvement. I know work is currently being done on this, but it hasn’t been committed yet. But I can’t run opera (yet…), xnview, the nVidia binary driver (which is currently in the works, but they’re awaiting some “feature” that isn’t available in FreeBSD/amd64…personally I think it’s bullshit, but we’ll see), openoffice, and stuff crashes sporadically. So in short, this is a big showstopper, and is preventing me from doing a complete switch to amd64.
Also of note is that amd64 seems to use a little more RAM (for obvious reasons…sizeof(long) is now 64 bits).
There were also some small bugs in certain apps (that I fixed with only a few lines of code), namely because of the interchanging of int and long.
I’ll see how things pan out, but for now i386 is probably going to be my primary platform.
Also, I’ve heard quite my fair share of dead baby jokes these past couple of days. No, I’m not a necroinfantophile (that’s tounge-in-cheek, yay!).
And to end on a tragic note, someone fell to his demise after losing his grip while trying to ride the escalator handrail to the third floor at Providence Place. I just think it’s evolution doing its work, but that’s just me. Darwin awards, anyone?
Dan out.
Maps of myspace, among other things
Sunday, November 27th, 2005Last night and today were quite productive; I merged in some changes to fakedbfs (breaking tons of shit in the process), wrote a program so I could use the multimedia keys on napoleon’s keyboard, and…uh…that’s it.
However, Dan and I had speculated a while ago, and myself recently, about what a map of myspace would look like. I’d imagine that besides it being huge, one could discern some interesting trends about geography and friendships; there would probably be clusters of people in the same geographic location, for example. You would probably see less of this trend if bands and such were counted.
On a semi-related note (only in the remotest of ways, though), the response to my last post about the “Finding Emo” article was quite positive. Of course, this is because I haven’t had any dumbasses read it (yes, I just said anyone who doesn’t think it’s good is a dumbass, for you…slower readers out there). I suggest you give it a reading if you haven’t done so.
So, I guess that’s it. I have to retool GopherOS’s VM subsystem. This will be fun.
Dan out.