Friday, July 30 2010
By Phil on Friday, July 30 2010, 08:40 - People
This is promising to be the most important election in Australian History. It is your decision whether you pass this on or not. After receipt of it, you can see that I chose to pass it on.
Congratulations Julia for making it to the position of Prime Minister. Proof that Australia really is a country where fairy tales can come true.
Friday, June 11 2010
By Phil on Friday, June 11 2010, 16:32 - General Crapola
What are my chances of getting an intelligent reply? Fuck all I reckon.
Thursday, June 10 2010
By Phil on Thursday, June 10 2010, 14:45 - Computing
So while researching some firewall flooding on one of my machines, I've learnt about Microsoft and UDP Port 2223:
The port 2223 is used by Microsoft Office 2008 installed in Apple's Mac OS platform. The application will initiate UDP and TCP connection with other computers in a Local Area Network to check licenses of the same application installed in remote machines. This feature of Microsoft Office 2008 is called Network PID Chcker (PID stands for Product Identification) Source: http://www.pc-library.com/ports/tcp-udp-port/2223/
You dirty dirty bastards, Microsoft.
Flooding my network with useless broadcast traffic every 60 seconds to satisfy your own dirty needs. Die.
Tuesday, April 6 2010
By Phil on Tuesday, April 6 2010, 10:16 - Computing
Whenever a wiki page that doesn't exist is accessed in MediaWiki, it logs a 404 error in the Apache logs. This quickly adds up to a lot of false-positives on 404 reports for something that is normal operation for MediaWiki.
MediaWiki is doing the correct thing here -- if the page doesn't exist, then 404 should be the HTTP status code. But at the same time, as a system admin, I don't care about these particular 404 errors, so I don't want to be bothered by them in my logs.
Sunday, March 28 2010
By Phil on Sunday, March 28 2010, 11:18 - Interwebs
There is a wireless internet hotspot provider called "Internet Everywhere". They have a password verification policy when you create an account with them. Unfortunately their policy is horribly and terribly flawed.
Tuesday, March 16 2010
By Phil on Tuesday, March 16 2010, 15:45 - Linux & Open Source
So I've spent the last day and a half, plus around $20 worth of DVD's, trying to get the CentOS Installer to boot and install on a headless machine. Here's the end result...
Sunday, February 28 2010
By Phil on Sunday, February 28 2010, 12:54 - People
If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labour.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally, you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally, you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally, you may never be heard from again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally, you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally, you will be thrown into political prison to rot.
If you cross the Australian border illegally, you get
I just wanted to make sure I have the correct understanding of the situation...
Saturday, January 30 2010
By Phil on Saturday, January 30 2010, 22:00 - Linux & Open Source
This a quick step-by-step for migrating a Physical computer to a Virtual Box instance. It was written for an Arch Linux based installation, and requires no special software except for an Arch Linux installation CD / ISO image.
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