Took my shammy out to fish for the first time, and hit lvl 125 before logging. Only took a few hours and threw in an instance and some anime watching in between. Not getting anything of value and it seems i’m not getting skillups for each cast anymore like I used to. Even still, its going relitivly fast.

I tried a test to see if I could move my abyss server over to a win 2k8 iis server with ftp and full monitoring. Yea, that didn’t go so well. I flipped the switch (changed the port forwarding), and the main page of the site loaded corectly… Thats about all though. Apparently I had forgotten to install php, and that in itself was a task as IE7 has some insane protected mode that it would not allow me to download the file without jumping through several hoops. Adfter it was installed, php still was not working correctly. I gave up on it because it was time for work and will play more with it later.

I wanted to use the admin console to remotly access my hmailserver. It said auth rejected as my pass weas wrong. So I went to the ini and reased the md5, now even local connections didnt work. I tried the database reconstruction utility. Nope, still wont let me make a new pasword for the admin account. So I tried reinstalling with a new sql database, to move the data to my main sql server instead of its own builtin. It defaulted to its own instead. I uninstalled the application, then deleted the sql backups, then reinstalled it clean and set it to my own sql database, then restored a  historcal backup of settings from the local admin consoul. Never did get the remote consol working but a consolation prize, I did get a php web version thats very buggy but does work. Also gave me an opertunity to upgrade the server to the latest stable release.

I thought about it and, am planning to sell the new laptop I got to my parents for a christmas present to my sister. Reason for doing this is, I just bought a new computer. Well, parts for a new computer that is.. Newegg.com was having its after-thansgiving cyber-sale. I bought 8 gig’s of G.Skill 800 clock ram, and an AMD Phenom x4 black edd., and a cheap 80$ asus mainboard. Nothing too fancy but will be a very powerful computer able to handel a decent work load and most medium graphic games with a pci-express GPU. The gpu has not yet been choosen, if one will even be installed. The mainboard has 6 sata ports, so most uber harddrive storageism…

Ntop

(yes again stole from wiki)

ntop is a network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes. In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user’s terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a Web server, creating a HTML dump of the network status. It sports a NetFlow/sFlow emitter/collector, a HTTP-based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRD for persistently storing traffic statistics.

Common usage on linux system is to start the ntop daemon (/etc/init.d/ntopd start), then one can use the web interface to ntop via visiting http://127.0.0.1:3000 provided the loopback device has been started (/etc/init.d/net.lo start) and the listening port for ntop is 3000 (look out for the -w option in ps aux | grep ntop)

http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html

Sort network traffic according to many protocols

Show network traffic sorted according to various criteria

Display traffic statistics

Store on disk persistent traffic statistics in RRD format

Identify the indentity (e.g. email address) of computer users

Passively (i.e. withou sending probe packets) identify the host OS

Show IP traffic distribution among the various protocols

Analyse IP traffic and sort it according to the source/destination

Display IP Traffic Subnet matrix (who’s talking to who?)

Report IP protocol usage sorted by protocol type

Act as a NetFlow/sFlow collector for flows generated by routers (e.g. Cisco and Juniper) or switches (e.g. Foundry Networks)

Produce RMON-like network traffic statistics

• VoIP support (SIP, Cisco SCCP and Asterisk IAX)
• NetFlow (including v5 and v9) and IPFIX support
• Network Flows
• Local Traffic Analysis
• Multithread and MP (MultiProcessor) support on both Unix and Win32
• Perl/PHP/Python lightweight API for accessing ntop from remote
• Support of both NetFlow andsFlow as flow collector. ntop can collect simultaneously from multiple probes.
• Traffic statistics are saved into RRD databases for long-run traffic analysis.
• Internet Domain, AS (Autonomous Systems), VLAN (Virtual LAN) Statistics
• Network assets discovery and categorization according to their OS and users
• Protocol decoders for most of known P2P (Peer to Peer) protocols
• Advanced ‘per user’ HTTP password protection with encrypted passwords
• RRD support for persistently storing per-host traffic information
• Passive remote host fingerprint (Courtesy of ettercap)
• HTTPS (Secure HTTP via OpenSSL)
• Virtual/multiple network interfaces support
• Graphical Charts (via gdchart)
• WAP support
• U3 support and graphical GUI (Win32 only)

 

Ok linux users.. This is stuff for you.. My perfered OS is fedora, and lately using gnome as kde is sooo overbloated in the latest release. Previous to this kde was the best….
Anyway, First is the spotlight is Webmin.

Webmin is a remote or local, web based administration tool. It has the built in integration for all the fun stuffz that may be running on your server or even desktop. It wilkl interface with most ftp programs, apache, most mail servers. Ity has the ability to cluster and cluster-policy change. It can even compile a iso from files you select suing the built in file manager and if a cd is in the drive, burn a backup of that iso. It has (of course) and remot administartion shell too ^-^

 http://www.webmin.com

I recomend installing by source.

Here are come pictures from the site to illistrate its awesomness

 

 

 

Next:

 

Madwifi. A must if you plan on using wireless on a Nix computer. Provides drivers and utilities for most atheros wireless cards

http://www.madwifi.com/

Operational Modes ¶

The following operational modes are supported:

sta

Station, a.k.a. infrastructure or managed. This device acting as typical WLAN client station. This is the default mode if not otherwise specified.

ap

Access Point, a.k.a. master. This device acts as the Access Point for other WLAN client stations.

adhoc

Ad-hoc. a.k.a. IBSS mode. This device is in a peer-to-peer(s) WLAN without the need for an Access Point.

ahdemo

Ad-hoc Demo. This is an older, non-802.11 compliant, proprietary ad-hoc mode.

monitor

Monitor. This device can be used to “sniff” raw 802.11 frames.

wds

Wireless Distribution System. This device can be used to create large wireless networks by linking several Access Points together.

Encryption ¶

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy, with 40/64 bit and 104/128 bit keys; supported in modes: sta, ap, adhoc

WPA

WiFi Protected Access; supported in modes: sta (through wpa_supplicant), ap (through hostapd)

WPA2/IEEE 802.11i

WiFi Protected Access 2; supported in modes: sta (through wpa_supplicant), ap (through hostapd)

IEEE 802.1X

Port-based Network Access Control; supported in modes: ap

Multi-BSSID ¶

MadWifi allows to run several virtual Access Points on a single card, by introducing the so called Virtual Access Points (VAP). VAPs sit on top of a base device (usually called wifi0), representing virtual WLAN devices that (despite their name) can be used in different other modes. That way a single WLAN card can connect to an Access Point while at the same time acting as Access Point for other stations. Other combinations of operational modes are possible as well.

To manipulate VAPs, MadWifi comes with a tool called wlanconfig which is used to create and destroy VAPS with various different modes.

Super A/G ¶

Atheros has introduced a set of (proprietary) features that have been designed to increase throughput and achievable distance, including frame aggregation, jumbo frames, on-the-fly data compression and channel bonding. MadWifi supports almost all these extensions to the standard.

… and more ¶

Some other interesting features are:

4-address header support

Support for transparent bridging of ethernet segments;

Seamless Roaming

Switch seamlessly to another Access Point if the current link gets weak;

Wi-Fi Multimedia

Quality of Service extensions for WLAN (IEEE 802.11e); Transmit Power Control (TPC)

Automatic adjustment of transmit power (IEEE 802.11h);

Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)

Automatically avoids channels that are used by radar and similar applications (IEEE 802.11h);

Background Scanning

Scanning other channels without loosing data;

 

 

Card compatibility : http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Compatibility

 

XMMS the audio player

(info stoled from the wiki)

XMMS currently supports the following audio and video file formats:

• AAC support is provided by the faad2 library, supporting m4a files
• APE Monkey’s Audio Codec .ape files – support provided by the mac-port project plugin
• Audio CD, including CDDB via FreeDB lookup
• FLAC support is provided by a plugin in the FLAC library
• Icecast and SHOUTcast streaming supported, and is compatible with Winamp 2 skins.
• libmikmod supported formats (including .XM, .MOD, .IT) See:MikMod Home
• ModPlug plug-in for playing mod, s3m, xm, umx, it and other famous trackers
• mp3PRO support is provided by a third party plugin (which does not support SHOUTcast title streaming) ^[4]
• MPEG Layer 1,2 and 3 (Also known as MP3), using the mpg123 library
• Musepack support using XMMS-Musepack plugin.
• OGG Vorbis support is provided by a plug-in provided by xiph.org
• SHN support is provided by a plug-in provided by etree.
• speex high quality & ratio speech compression format via plugin
• TTA support is provided by a third party plugin
• UADE plug-in provides Most Amiga music formats.
• WAV
• WavPack with support provided by a third party plugin
• WMA Limited support provided by third party plugin.

Pretty ain’t it

First, FreeNAS..

Wednesday, 29 November 2006

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key. The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall.

 

 

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DD-WRT is a third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many ieee802.11a/b/g/h/n wireless routers based on a Broadcom or Atheros chip reference design.

 

• 13 languages
• 802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
• Access Restrictions
• Ad Hoc
• Afterburner
• Client Isolation Mode
• Client Mode (supports multiple connected clients)
• DHCP Forwarder (udhcp)
• DHCP Server (udhcp or Dnsmasq)
• DNS Forwarder (Dnsmasq)
• DMZ
• Dynamic DNS (DynDNS, easyDNS, FreeDNS, No-IP, TZO, ZoneEdit, custom, and others)
• Hotspot Portal (Sputnik Agent ,Chillispot)
• IPv6
• JFFS2 (JFFS2)
• MMC/SD Card Support (hardware modification required)
• NTP
• ntop Remote Statistic (ntop)
• OpenVPN Client & Server (only in -vpn build of the firmware)
• Port Triggering
• Port Forwarding
• PPTP VPN Server & Client
• QoS Bandwidth Management
• QoS L7 Packet Classifier (l7-filter)
• RFlow
• Routing (BIRD)
• Samba FS Automount
• Syslog
• Rx Antenna
• Tx Antenna
• Show Status of Wireless Clients and WDS with System Uptime/Processor Utilization
• Site Survey
• SNMP
• SSH server & client (dropbear)
• Startup, Firewall, and Shutdown scripts (startup script)
• Static DHCP
• Style (Changeable GUI; v.23)
• Supports New Devices (WRT54G V3, V3.1, V4, V5 and WRT54GS V2.1, V3, V4)
• Telnet server & client
• Transmit Power Adjustment (0-251mW, default is 28mW, 100mW is safe)
• UPnP
• USB
• VLAN
• WOL (Wake On Lan) (WOL)
• WDS Connection Watchdog
• WDS Repeater Mode
• Wireless MAC Address Cloning
• Wireless MAC Filter
• WMM (Wi-Fi MultiMedia)
• WPA over WDS
• WPA/TKIP with AES
• WPA2
• Xbox Kaid (Kai Engine)

 

 

 

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IVM Answering Attendant Software

Complete voicemail, call attendant and IVR solution for Windows

 

Multiple telephone line support (1 – 64 lines simultaneously).

Visual display for menu setup with drag and drop functionality.

Caller ID logging (even if no message is left) and optional on-screen caller ID flash display.

Call key select menus and ability for caller to enter numbers.

Automatic message forward by email or upload to internet.

Call transfer (subject to your phone company or PBX features).

Remote Access (listen to messages by dialing-in) including toll-saver.

Fully Supports VoIP connections using the SIP protocol.

Axon IP PBX auto detection when installed on the same server.

Save in-coming messages as wav files (keep messages for legal/record purposes).

Automatic hours feature (enter your office hours and it will automatically answer after hours).

Unlimited (selectable) out-going messages and menus.

Call simulator is included so you can test your systems off-line.

Automated outbound calls and messages (for telemarketing, messaging etc.).

Unlimited voice mail boxes (each with own email forward, internet access page or remote access).

Extended message play on key press including support for wav, mp3 and a number of other formats.

Text-to-Speech voice synthesis as an alternative to recording or importing wav or mp3 files.

Ability to open files or run other software to process data or report information.

Free plugins offer internet and odbc sql connectivity, fax back services, hardware control and more.

Free professionally voiced greetings included.

 

Well i’m stuck at work away from my World of Warcraft. I wanna play my damn death knight already. I think someone may have eaten my gummie bears too >.>  ;; Stoopid tv on the wall keeps showing the next weeks forcast over and over. All snow. I’m up in buffalo NY and its getting soooo cold. Not that were not used to it, but I certainly don’t have to enjoy it either. Heat doesent make it up in my room and I can’t use the little space heater till I clean my room. I been soooo lazy lately… ^-^ . Work on most of my projects is on hold still while I await the phone system to be installed for the new IVR im making.

I decided to use IVM, and a voice telephone modem on an older win xp computer for the server. I havent tested the modem I picked up yet, but I have a good feeling it won’t give me too much trouble. When I went to pick it up though, the lady at the counter of the computer store was giving me  hard time. I had my mate with me, her name is Jen, we picked out the one we wanted and went to go buy it. The lady at the counter asked ” Are you sure this is what you need”. Of course i’m sure. She asked “What internet service do you have?” I have ****** cable service. “Then this ISN’T what you need……”. Yes… it is….

Negotiations were intense. After all was said and done she actually offered to sell me her store. From the look and size of it she wasn’t getting to much business though. The other projects in the works as: An arcade machine running MAME and a portable data recovery system, built into a steel breifcase. The aracde is actually nearing completion. Working coinslot, lights and marquee. It actually plays games currently, but it needs some cosmetic touchups still. And the monitor is just laying there, not secured properly. The remote data recovery program/system didnt fit in the case >.> … Soooooo yea…. It’s gonna be a bit on that., I planned on using an 8″ touchscreen, lillyput, and a micro itx 12v computer I have in storage to run it. Always happens I jump out and try and complete several projects then end up not having time for nay of them >.<

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10:41 pm now. I asked my sup to go home and he said he’ll check….. 40 minutes later…. Still no responce >.<

I found a link to the IVM application I plan on using.

http://www.nch.com.au/ivm/

 

He finally got back to me about it @ 1120pm …. About 1.5 hours before I leave. “Oh yea, human resources said no”  ….   u.u    Coulden’t just say that 3 hours ago??

Well after some work the photo gallerys testing is almost done and soon I can add unless images I find around the internet.