http://shivan.org The blog of a Network Analyst who plays around with many things open source when he is not feeding his MMORPG addiction. Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Behold, the Republican base appearing for an official McCain/Palin rally: The above hate has been purposely encouraged through the direct acts of John McCain and his campaign over the last few weeks. Audio of an official McCain robocall continuing their strategy of inciting such hate can be found here. ... http://shivan.org/2008/10/18/the-republican-base-speaks/ A few days ago I stumbled across a great little game from an Indie company on Steam called Audiosurf. The best I can describe Audiosurf is that it combines the action of a Sci-fi racing game with Tetris and Guitar Hero. The $9.99 game requires you to supply ... http://shivan.org/2008/08/18/the-beat-and-zen-of-indie-games/ The most accurate and trustworthy American news agency reports on an alarming trend in office politics: Study Finds Young People Remain Apathetic About Office Politics http://shivan.org/2008/08/04/alarming-report-on-office-politics/ A follow up to the post named "The Future of IPv4": In the Network World article "Comcast pitches IPv6 strategy to standards body" the Cable ISP discusses their current plans on how to migrate their customers to IPv6. The summary of what happens once Comcast runs out of IPv4 address to give ... http://shivan.org/2008/08/04/comcasts-possible-ipv6-deployment-plan/ The following is a public service announcement in rant format on a topic that I've reached my limit on: If you believe "RPM Hell" already exists and say things like "Apt is better than RPM" you just announced to the world that you do not know what you are talking about. ... http://shivan.org/2008/07/31/public-rant-rpm-hell/ Required reading for anyone who deals with networks: The Future Without IPv6 and IPv6 and NAT... Again!. If we have any hope of getting out of the NAT trap how does IPv4 become painful enough to compel the transition? Will hitting NAT scalability issues be enough? Or will the ... http://shivan.org/2008/07/30/the-future-of-ipv4/ Mark Cox from Red Hat has published an analysis of the security updates release for RHEL 5.0 through 5.2: Enterprise Linux 5.0 to 5.1 Enterprise Linux 5.1 to 5.2 risk report The blog posts cover the effects of various exploit mitigation technologies. Sadly it seems the same software keeps having security holes ... http://shivan.org/2008/05/29/updated-security-analysis-of-red-hat-enterprise-5/ Bloglines, an online RSS feed reader, offers an easy way to export your RSS feed subscriptions in OPML format. The following extremely trivial Python script will spit out the OPML file to stdout: #!/usr/bin/python import mechanize b = mechanize.Browser() b.open("https://www.bloglines.com/export") b.select_form(name="login") b["email"] = "email@address" b["password"] = "password" b.submit() print b.response().read() Hopefully this will save someone else a few minutes ... http://shivan.org/2008/05/19/backing-up-bloglines-subscriptions/ For those of us who plan and maintain wireless networks you are well aware of the problems presented by how limited you are with 802.11b/g in the 2.4ghz band. One way that many network administrators attempt to work around this is to leverage 802.11a which is in the much ... http://shivan.org/2008/05/15/wireless-drivers-suck/ A certain someone poked me enough times over the last 11 months that I finally decided to get around to uploading the slides of a presentation I gave back in June of 2007 to the MHVLUG. The topic was basic SELinux concepts. http://shivan.org/2008/05/12/selinux-presentation/