Get started on monday.
Mar 10Nice little flick to start off the week. I know all you fanboys are going to have kittens, but I could not care less. 🙂
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Kc208 : "Network Security".
Mar 09This week we take a look at how to secure your wired and wireless lan. Talk cables and security protocols and how to flip the switch to keep the bad guys out. Cabling, Routers, Networking, Switches and hubs. The Dangers of wardrivers and how you can be safe against them. A short and crispy show with great music and more.
Shownotes.
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- Introduction.
- New Recording Setup : Trying out the Asus EEEpc.
- What is a Local Area Network .
- Wired vs Wireless
- Routers vs Switches .
- Correct Cabling.
- Color coding scheme for making your own network cables.
- Ways to secure your router : wep / wpa
- Wireless security and the hazzards of wardrivers .
- Music : Starpilot Theme , by Assertive Sound.
- Signoff and Thank you for the Feedback.
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Yes there is a virus for the Mac, And I want it !
Mar 08
Of course our resident Content provider Sharky came up with this one. Fan-Tastic !
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Lifestreaming with Yahoo Pipes.
Mar 07
For the last few days I have been thinking about the concept of Lifestreaming. A way of aggregating all the things I do online into one big stream. A collection of my articles , podcasts, tweets (quite a few of them lately), video’s, bookmarks, comments.. Would be very cool to have them all poured into one giant RSS feed that people could subscribe to. Some of you might think its not really interesting to have an rss Update whenever Knightwise farts on the internet, but still. For me it would be a cool way to aggregate all the content I have into one stream of information that I could pipe through to the website. Lately there have been so many services out there that I use, Twitter, Foxmarks, Google reader, Youtube, Flickr… A recent invite to Seesmic.com (thanx GGP) has added yett another channel of expression to my whole slew of logins and passwords.
One of the Services that might be able to help me out is Yahoo Pipes. In the wise words of Peter Nikolaidis I shall name it ‘RSS Routing’. Yahoo Pipes is like a filter service that allows you to connect all your RSS feeds together, run filters on them and end up with one big master feed. (Piping in Linux means using the output of one command as the input of another command) I have been tinkering with it for a few days now but fail to get it working just right. Whenever I enter a site or service that has "multiple" rss feeds, Yahoo Pipes borks on the fact that there is both and Atom and an RSS feed, instead of just giving me one of the two. But i"m sure I’ll work that out pretty soon. For those of you who want to give Yahoo pipes a try, its great to aggregate all your major feeds, set a filter to "weed out" the duplicates, and stick the resulting pipe into your RSS reader. Great stuff to filter our the massive wave of information coming our way everyday.
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Respawning a mac Mini into a Ubuntu Server.
Mar 05Man ! What a busy week, or must I say : what a busy week-end. Parties, shopping, social events, work .. it all piled up nicely and maxed out our weekend to the extreme. Barely enough time to sit down, let alone "blog" or do something else productive. But what the hey .. here I am again. With the big "move" coming up to our "smaller crib" we are getting things in order for the whole thing to go smoothly.
One of those things is : Looking at what are we going to put in what room and how are we going to arrange our furniture. Accept from living room, bedroom, bathroom etc .. there is one room in the house (the attic) that is huge and that will be our shared "Hang out" room where we have a couch and a TV and where both my wife and I have have our "hobby stuff" setup. For her : a big table with sowing gear and stuff, for me : The "office". Right now my office occupies one of the largest rooms in our house, after the move i’m going to share 
some space with my wife so .. I have to take a look at "scaling down" the size of my desk etc. Not that that is a problem. Four years ago when we moved in here I had bought that desk to carry a small computer lab. Several computers, screens, keyboards etc.. You could do a little episode of the matrix on that desk. The rest of the office was also capable of sporting some extra workstations .. In fairness : If you pumped it full of gear it would look like freakin’ Nasa. But today progress has taken its toll and the office is kinda … empty. One Powerbook, 2 screens and a a Mac mini. Thats all that is left. I have not scaled down .. but with the rise of virtualisation and cheaper TFT screens.. I just don’t need more computers. My Imac has a virtual version of Vista, Xp and a few version of linux standing by. My macbook is just as powerful, my old powerbook (a G4) is perfect for podcast recording, and my gigantic mixer has been replaced by this tiny mixed because I do all of my post production on the mac. What is left is what I call " The holy trinity " This consists of my Imac in the middle, sporting OSX, on the left I have a 19" tft hooked up to my Imac as a second screen. On that I run XP or Vista as a virtual machine. On the right I have a second 19" tft hooked up to my Linux machine. In this case i’ve chosen my old G4 Mac Mini and have installed Ubuntu linux on it (Server edition) and added the Gnome interface. All I need next is to hook up a small "laptop like" keyboard and a mouse and i’m done. A super powerful and ultra compact setup. Total width of the operation ? 150cm. How about that for a sliders desktop that sports all the major OS’es in the world.
The Mac mini was a spare unit I had lying around ( I used it to stream video to our tv upstairs) but since Eyetv can do this using a web interface .. I don’t need it anymore. I went for the latest supported version of Ubuntu (6.06) and installed it as a Lamp server. If you listened to the Knightcast episode 01 you’ll hear about the ‘power station’ setup where you install a server edition of Ubuntu and add a graphical desktop on top. This is kind of the same. The mini is silent fast and compact and very low on power consumption. If I need a desktop I can just sit behind it and work away, but the great thing is the server power is right under the bonnet. Running a torrentflux client, Installing an edition of Joomla, configuring everything remotely with Webmin.. It"s all possible with the little box. I love it.
If you want more information about how to build your own Linux server/workstation: you might want to check out THIS guide.
Feisty for the Family : Setting up a Linux server.
