Finally got some peace and quiet. My ferret was sick for a few days, she just woulden’t move. Even when I picked her head up she just layed back down again. I didn’t think she was gonna make it. Luckily a friend told me what to do for her. She apparently was low on sugar and needed some surup. After a few minutes she started acting better. She made it through the night and since has been pretty active and almost back to normal.

My DK got tons of new items including… The grasscutter and the titansteel bonecrusher. The grasscutter cost me 49 heroism badges and 1 valor (converted). The crusher cost me 600G in titansteel bars and the rest of the mats I already had.

Shortly after getting my new items, I wanted to go test them on a test dummy. (Without raid buffs I was getting about 1800 dps average. With Raid, 2300 dps. ) Went to tthe test dummy and I nearly cryed, my dps dropped to 800! I looked over all my gear trying to figure out what was wrong. Checking all my enchantments, my runes on my weapons… Finally I tunred on scrolling combat text to watch was what happening… ….Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss….. Hummmmm So checking my skills, I found my mace skill was @ 1/400… Whoops >.>        Within about 30 minutes im sitting around 360/400, and shortly it will be maxed. I’m going to start crafting titansteel bars each night to try and recover the moneys I lost but I also want to make the titansteel helm too.

I been pugging with this group of players for the past week or so now. Jonie, Crazybear, Myself, Nulram, and (randomdps). We’ve been working on getting each of us the plagued protodrake from heroic Strat.

CircuitCity was going out of business. The store looked almost vacant. I went in over the weekend and found a Linksys Storage server, normally sells for about 150$, got it for 80$ then added a 1TB harddrive to it for a nice new addition to my network. It’s expandable to 2 bays and 2 usb drives also.

I went to RadioShack over the weekend to get a new cellphone. My contract was expiring form Sprint and I was unhappy with the service in some areas. I would frequently loose signal or drop calls, roamin in my own home. Sprints reasoning was that a tower went out, but this happened for a few days at a time, several times a month. When I was sold the phone, I was told it was a decent model (obviously to make the sale), because shortly after, when I complained I was told that the model has always given them issues, and the battery life was horrible, and the brand has the worst reception of all they sell. The immediatly following up that line with an offer to get me the most expencive phone they offer. This being said specifically after I said “I want a good loud phone, with no fancy garbage”. So at this point I decided to go with a differnet company, this is where AT&T came in. The phone itself was decently priced however the packages were outragous. I went with them anyway… Purchaced the package from RadioShack. The rep there told me I should get the 1500 texting package so I cna use my AIM with it. That sounded good, but when I brought the phone home, I noticed my texting usage wasn’t going down any. I decided to call them as it appeared AIM used an internet connection when I specifically didn;’t order and internet package with the phone. They said to me that AIM works off texting, not the internet but to be sure I dont accidentally use the internet and get charges, he would lock the internet off the phone. This happened at 12.58am, and figures when I go to sign on to AIM now, it gives me an error. No network avaiable. Calling them is almost impossibe as it says it’s transfering you to the correct department but just hangs up on you repetedly. So I gave one last call in to try and get whatever he had done revered. This didn’t work either as apparently all their offices close at 1am est. So he just told me what I wanted to hear to get me off the phone and go home.. Thanks buddy.

Well I took it upon myself to go onto my online account and remove the block, then add the correct packages. I knew all along what I needed however I was just being hopeful that waht I was told was true. So now 15$ extra, everything is working like it should. Called Sprint to cancel my old service too when the contract ends. The lady was very arrogant and abrupt with me. She asked why I was leaving. I told her becasue the network drops where I am, and her reply was that “All networks use the name network, CDMA” I told her thats not true, some use the 3G network, and also I ment tower coverage, not the network *type*. She put me on hold for about 5 minutes and said… Your service will be cancled and hung up on me. Real nice retention policys. Ill be sure to have my parents and sisters cancel also thats to her, and infact extend that to every customer that tells me they use sprint.

 Later that day, went to see the new movie “Mall Cop”. A decent movie, but I was hoping it would be a bit more professional. I wasn’t expecting to see adults laying seige to a mall ON SKATE BOARDS AND BIKES. It looked like mad max mixed with barney. A somewhat decent twist at the end but it was almost expected. Worth seeing I suppose, but maybe I was just expecting an action movie and ended up in a comedy.

Damn spammers … I spent almost an hour clearing out guestbook spam entries. I ended up going to the sql database and clearing them there, it was much faster. Now I added an antispam feature to it to prevent these morons from messing with my blog. I hate making people fill out dumb image verifications but it really leaves me no choice with these guys. I even banned their entire isp with an ip mask ban, and they proxy their connection and keep doing it.

Got a hotel room for my GF and self for christmas day to the following. Boring day at work, not too much is happening. Really didn’t feel like getting up this morning. My new computer is running like a dream still. Got RDC working, the windows remote desktoping program. A friend told me the actual TS – terminal service server, is built off of citrix platform/code! Im going to migrate it to my room tonight and hook it up to my 32″ hd tv for some porn viewing ^-^. The laptop I got, the acer, will need to be reimaged tonight so it can be wrapped up and delivered to mom for christmas too. I still haven’t thought of what i’m gonna name it yet. Needs to be something cute and fluffy because its going to a girly… :p Should name it “sakura”. Thats what i’m gonna name my first female child…

Dad had to go plowing lastnight and made me get up and run outside, out of my nice warm bed, to go move moms truck :p. Not too much progress on my deathknight, mostly just playing around. Went to strathome and played around there to get the achievement, then go the key to the city and the piccolo of the flaming fire trinket. Took jen to WC and got her the rest of the druid of the fang set too. Her group was trying to run it @ level and was failing horribly due to other group members not waiting for the healer to mana up as well as pulling the boss before pat’s were cleared.

 

 

List of applications that need to install on the little asus computer:

Activate RDC

Install mainboard drivers

Set workgroup and hostname

add Admin + Helen accts

Add VLC player

add flash support

add firefox

add oppenoffice

correct background

install printing support

Add email account and windows mail support

Wifi authentication + autojoin network

 

 

> At some point, I need to pick up a giftcard for my dad for timmy ho’s but I have no idea waht to get my sister. Also while at timmy’s, need to get a coffee mug for Ramone at work.

Woak up late becasue I kept trying to go back to sleep. Was at least not so cold in meh room. My order from newegg did arrive at least. Went to pizza place to get some food before work and I forgot my wallet. Went home and got it but didn’t have enough time to return and get pizza. Headed off to work, but on the way ran into construction at a railroad crossing. Had to doubleback and go around. Stopped and got foods at the minimart on the way to work. I brought my new mainboard to work to look over…

Last night wasn’t too bad. Chatted with a few friends. After I parse out the personal stuffs, I may post the transcripts. Tried playing WoW, but got bored after literally 4 minutes. Was testing out my shammy, but it was taking damage too fast to play and I wasn’t really in the mood. Felt bad that I kinda blew off a friend, atma, but she was in a very playful mood, and I was in a very… un-playful mood. It was mean but it was better that I said I didn’t wanna talk, then talk and say something that would hurt her.

Re-wrote some of Mollys homepage, she kept whining about a few sections. Still working on getting her her own domain name instead of running off one one of my hosted ones. Thats gonna require a small deticated computer and I think I have just the one. Only problem is I only have 1 ip addess so will need to pull a computer off the network to get a new ip for port 80. Lastly, I need to be able to connect to this computer so will need vpn abailites. I have never tried vpn’ing yet….

 

I think its best to leave vista on the laptop. I know its mean to sacrifice the new laptop to vista, but fedora wont run most of the remote administration applications I need for my site. SQLYog, ftp admin, main server admin. VNC does work, but its not the client made to work with the server, so doen not support all the features like file transfer and screen blankning. Not things I use often but still I would like the have them. I also would like a visio style network layout diagram, and i don’t believe openoffice supports that yet.

Got boston market chicken today, and a piece of pumpkin pie ^-^, and had some really disturbing dreams. I dont remember much of them, but thats probally a good thing.

 

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Listening to: Styx – Miss America

 

Meh, I did my 1 good deed for the year… Poor cleaning ladys were trying to get come garbage cans out the door to the dumpster in the pouring rain/ sleet. So I got soaked and helped them haul the cans out. just hope I don’t get sick from the cold again. After all, no good deed goes un punished.

 

 

AND…

friday night, after 2 months of work.. my co-worker hout finally beat all levels of balloon tower defence 3 on hard!

With screenshot to prove it…!

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

Got bored and wrote-up a cheap looking idea of my network layout…

 

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.