It was interesting when I posted a news article to the WIA regarding IPv6, how quickly it got shot down by “experts”. A recent addition to our network was a 2008-model Apple MacBook, which I have dual-booting Gentoo and MacOS X 10.6.7 nicely. One quirk of this particular laptop though, is that it will, when [...]
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Well… has anyone noticed anything different about the ‘net? stuartl@atomos ~ $ host www.google.com.au www.google.com.au is an alias for www.google.com. www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.52 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.48 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.49 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.50 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.237.51 www.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2404:6800:4006:802::1011 I knew World IPv6 [...]
Without wishing to sound harsh, two words: Don’t bother. There are a few reasons why I’m not on FaceBook… Need First and foremost, is a matter of need. The primary reasons why someone would set up something on FaceBook is to enable their friends to be able to locate them on the Internet. In my [...]
This is a question raised on an earlier post of mine. It’s an interesting comparison between radios and mobile phones. And some are of the belief that all you do with a radio, is talk on it, or that mobile phones can completely replace radios. Rather than respond there, I’ve decided there’s enough content there [...]
That was one of the comments made following my piece in this week’s WIA national news. We better start thinking up a better protocol then if that’s the truth. And we’ve only got 5-10 years to do it apparently, and migrate everyone. The IPng working group started their work in the early 90′s. It took [...]
Hi all, As promised I’ve put up some of the ebuilds needed to use the YubiKey in Gentoo. This includes a PAM module for stand-alone authentication with the YubiKey, which I have patched to support concatenated two-factor authentication. These are in a new overlay: git://git.longlandclan.yi.org/overlays/yubikey.git http://git.longlandclan.yi.org/git/overlays/yubikey.git Stand-alone two factor authentication: Password + YubiKey with YubiPAM [...]
At linux.conf.au, we all got given a YubiKey each. These are a proprietary one-time-password generator device which plugs into USB and emulates a USB HID keyboard. Full documentation on how the algorithm works is provided by Yubico and they have also provided a lot of software for interfacing to the keys under a quite liberal [...]
The following was a news article that I intended to record and have included in this week’s WIA National News service, however I had problems cutting it down to the 1:30 required. So, I’ve put in additional information that there wasn’t time for, and I intend to put in a short piece for next week’s [...]
Well, you’ve probably heard about it by now. http://lcaunderthestars.org.au/ To be held in Ballarat, Victoria. I have no idea whether I’ll make it, but this year has been fun.
Well, I won’t say much but point-to-point and point-to-multipoint does not have to be short-range or rely on centralised infrastructure. People have been using a means of such communication for over 100 years, which allows for ad-hoc, distributed communications. Yes, it prohibits the use of encryption, but that doesn’t prevent us from using it as [...]
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