There’s lots of software out there that sets up a “sandbox” to protect your system from untrusted code. The examples that come to mind are Chrome and Adobe for the flash sandbox. The strength of these sandboxes are an interesting point of discussion. Strength is always related to the mechanism and if you’re running on [...]
NOTE: I took the time to get to the bottom of the issue discussed in this post. There’s a new post here that explains the “right way” to use Makefiles with yocto. As always, the error in this post was mine I’ve officially “drank the Kool-Aid” and I’m convinced openembedde and Yocto are pretty awesome. [...]
I took some time yesterday to upgrade my beloved Nokia N8 to the new(ish) Symbian^3 Anna build and it wasn’t a smooth upgrade. Upgrading through the Ovi Suite went well enough but applications like the Ovi Store just wouldn’t work after the upgrade. The Ovi Store application would install and start but would sit on [...]
Spent a few minutes searching for a howto for setting up ethernet interface bonding on a new file server I’m building today. Nothing special but I found a bunch that aren’t that great … I know, welcome to the internet right? But I did find one that’s awesome from tuxhelp.org. My final config went like [...]
The weather’s starting to get nice and since I don’t have a garage to work in over the winter, I had to wait for nice weather to work on my Thruxton … in my driveway. Joker Machine makes some really nice bolt-ons and they’re pretty spendy so over the winter I picked up a few [...]
This may seem like a strange reason to be configuring an authenticated and encrypted HTTP connection … but it’s tax season! There’s a story behind this naturally but first a quick overview. Recently I’ve had had to exchange sensitive documents with someone. To do this I had to configure my web server to require digest [...]
In setting up SELinux on my Laptop running Squeeze I’m taking a pretty standard approach. First off I’m working off the packages provided in Sid maintained by Russell Coker so most of the hard work has been done. There are a few programs, mostly specific to a laptop that still aren’t in the right domains. [...]
The last bit of configuration that my laptop required before I’d call it “usable” with the new window manager was related to the function keys. This doesn’t have anything to do with configuring the awesome window manager directly but it does address a few small configurations necessary to provide some functionality that I was used [...]
A few weeks back I upgraded my wireless router and added an racoon based IPsec VPN. When I built my first home router / wireless access point a few years ago I did so to get some experience configuring Linux systems and writing firewall rules. I’ve revisited this script a number of times as I’ve [...]
In my first two years riding my motorcycle I learned a few things the hard way. Long story short I laid my Thruxton down twice, once on each side. They weren’t bad spills but I got a few cool scars out of the deal and so did my bike. A few weeks ago I purchased [...]
