March2010

Ghost balaclava from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Take a quick look on ebay and you’ll find plenty of results for Ghost’s balaclava. One of them even includes a cheesy hooded jacket and knee pads for a ridiculous price, but I see nothing that even comes close to the detail and quality of KChanko’s gear.

Android update to include flash for Verizon’s Droid smartphone

So it’s delayed, it’s not that big of a deal. Features found in the Nexus phone that are missing will be a nice addition, but the big news is flash support is coming. But flash is client side, so I wonder how well that will work on the droid hardware? Even if it renders just fine, is flash the right direction?

Zero size TCP receive window denial of service

CK’s that contain no data are not reliably transmitted by TCP. If zero window probing is not supported, a connection may hang forever when an ACK segment that re-opens the window is lost. This type of attack has been realized since 2006. This means that an application or firewall must selectively abort TCP connections that appear malicious by staying in the persist state and consume large amounts of resources.

Verify LDAP traffic encryption with Wireshark

Assuming you’ve already installed and configured your directory to use TLS encryption, you should verify LDAP is working as you expect before you start streaming passwords and other important data across the wire. You can use Wireshark and it’s full blown gui interface, but it’s faster just to fire up tethereal for this test.

Run Fedora 12 for PowerPC on Intel x86 with qemu-system-ppc

You’ve probably found an endless supply of URLs where people complain that they can’t get anything to boot with qemu-system-ppc and many supposed guides to follow that work. It’s almost impossible to find functional examples of how to run qemu-system-ppc without a kernel panic, core dump, or ending up in bios limbo. So here’s one way I came up with that works for me.

Create a network bridge for Virtual Machines

So you want to setup networking so virtual machines will have access to the outside world through your hosts network connection. To do this you’ll need to share your host’s external interface with virtual machines through a bridge. A bridge can join two network segments and be used to inspect all Ethernet frames that pass between them. Create a bridge and a tunnel interface. Assign the tunnel and your host’s Ethernet interface to the bridge. Connect the bridge to the outside world. Your host uses the network card in promiscuous mode to handle packets for other interfaces connected to the bridge.

Create photomosaic pictures with Metapixel

Using an image you want the mosaic to look like overall, and at least one tile library directory, create the mosaic. Using an image you want the mosaic to look like overall, and at least one tile library directory, create the mosaic. If the image doesn’t look like the original vangogh you based it on, try adding scale so it can use more images or shrink the tiles.