Memoires of the Commonly Uncommon Tech Solutions
OSX Color Terminal
Since Apple released their latest release of MacOS X, changing the Terminal application’s colors have once again become a pain. Even with the previous release, you could drag and drop colors from the color swatch to the color you wanted to change. This feature has thus been removed in Leopard. Thanks to Ciarán Walsh, of …
PHP Date Drop-Down Menu Function
If you have ever had to deal with long hours coding large drop-down menus for various different reasons, then you know finding a better solution isn’t far after those first 20 lines. When programming a scheduling application last year, I realized that I didn’t want to rely on an employee to know the date format …
IPv6 on Cisco Routers
Back in 2003, aside from messing with wireless networks, I starting really working with IPv6 in its full form (Watch for NS in the IPv6 server list here soon). At the same time, I was studying for my CCNA, and decided that every piece of hardware in my house needed to be running IPv6. In …
More Fun With Wireless Hacking (2600 03/04)
I decided to start posting the various articles from my old site, which have yet to become obsolete. One was More Fun With Wireless Hacking, which was published in the Winter 2003 issue of 2600 Hacker’s Quarterly. Since the practice of wireless hacking, security has yet to change. So, I present you with the original …
Azureus CLI: The Dark Side of Azureus
While torrent sharing grows more and more each day, it has started to become a great way to host large archives without sacrificing your bandwidth. Such a case is a remote server, that has a limit on the bandwidth, but you don’t want to cripple your user base because of it. So, how do you …
TrustedBSD – MAC BIBA Policy
For our 3rd part of the tutorial, we are going to cover one of the MAC BIBA policy. This policy controls the upward flow of information. In other words, we can restrict access based on a user or process. We will look at how to add our policy, and how to alter it to our …
TrustedBSD – MAC Processes
As we continue on looking at the MAC modules, we will cover two more minor modules that will allow us to add MAC Processes. This will prove crucial to learning some of the more advanced modules that deal with policies. These two modules are mac_seeotheruids, and mac_partition. While they are simple, they are still good …
TrustedBSD – Mandatory Access Control
The BSD Extended module helps us protect every aspect of FreeBSD’s environment. With Mandatory Access Control, we are able to set explicit permissions on what a user can do, see, and control. What separates this from the usual permissions, is that we can set limit a user or group based on the resource being accessed. …
RedHat Fedora Core 6 PowerPC Version
After treading through many OS’es on my Powerbook G4, not one of them suited my needs completely. Even though OS X seems to fit a lot of my needs, there are Linux/UNIX applications and such that I’d much rather have. Many people have told me to try DarwinPorts and fink. Fink was just more of …
OpenVPN Client Management Script
One thing that always bothered me about OpenVPN was the work you had to do to get one client setup. It wasn’t a hard process, but when configuring multiple clients it was always a very monotonous job and quite annoying. So, to resolve this issue, I wrote a script to create the keys, certificates, package …
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