Anthony Earl's Home Page

 Date: 2006-01-31 23:26:42.193065
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2006-01-31
Body: Helped David purchase and configure DavidBraley.com -- his first domain.
 Date: 2005-04-05 22:28:45.323129
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-04-05
Body: Configured a new name server.
 Date: 2005-03-29 22:50:34.942496
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-03-29
Body: Upgrade a machine at home. Peeked at little at what darcs is about. A little Email and relaxed.
 Date: 2005-03-01 23:09:37.799056
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-03-01
Body: Tried in vain to access the 'desktop' web interface supposedly offered by T-Mobile.com for the SideKick machine. Tried on OS/X with Safari and on Linux with Firefox. Just kept returning me to the home page. So then read the user-manual for a Digitech GNX2. A used one should be mine by the end of the week.
 Date: 2005-01-26 11:18:02.816826
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-01-25
Body: Tested ettercap on OS X through fink on a small home network, Discovered that the Linksys wireless accees point admin password is transmitted in clear text (I had been given the WEP key). Helped dj with an ssh tunnel to his dircproxy. Saw again that Gary Moore is the best electric guitar player on the planet.
 Date: 2005-01-04 23:15:12.942764
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-01-04
Body: Helped dangerjim check whether his USB HD was functioning. It was -- but not on his machine. Figured out the right set of wlanctl-ng commands to connect to a WEP-enabled network with the NetEngine and a USB-400.
 Date: 2005-01-01 17:31:24.997716
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2004-12-29
Body: Arrived very late after Go at the Bean Cycle. Got the video cam demo working with the NetEngine and NFS too. Played a few seconds of Unreal Tournament but the network connection on Brian's machine failed to stay up.
 Date: 2005-01-01 17:29:32.301619
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2004-12-30
Body: Enjoyed a fine meal and tried some more experiments with the NetEngine from niblemicro.com. At some point screwed up with the thumb drive partitioning and/or lilo and ended up unable to boot. Fix will be to boot from a network once I've configured all that's necessary to do that.
 Date: 2004-12-28 23:08:38.849787
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2004-12-28
Body: http://linux.nimblemicro.com has a NetEngine NP51R which I'd seen advertised in LinuxJournal earlier in the year. So I bought one and this was the first boot. It appears to work fine although we've had trouble talking to its NFS server. Files from a couple of USB thumb drives were visible and the machine could be reached over ethernet and a serial connection. Reponse time from the nimblemicro web site was irritating at times tonight.
 Date: 2004-10-26 22:54:13.517664
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-10-26
Body: Pointed the group to liegirls.com. Fun presentation of politics in an attractive package.

Investigated how you get extra software onto a a Linksys wrt54g once it has modified firmware installed.

Batbox has a Snort-specific page but I wasn't convinced the build process was uptodate. It certainly wasnt straightforward.

The SeattleWireless page about the wrt54g is an extensive wiki but again it's hard to tell what is really current.

The OpenWRTCore approach may be closer to what I was hoping to find. It's intent is to offer a core working system with the potential to add any of a series of user-chosen packages for the funtionality you want.

Unfortunately, the OpenWRTCore site seems to have no packages.

There's information about Kismet on the Linksys. Looks like those instructions are good and there's an associated discussion thread on the page too.

 Date: 2004-10-19 23:11:23.887026
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-10-19
Body: Investigated installation of MoinMoin but then learned my target web server doesn't have Python. Yuck!

So took a look at a new wrt53g distribution with nocat that nirik pointed to. SHould provide some future fun.

 Date: 2004-10-12 22:43:44.297271
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-10-12
Body: Identified useful data from laptop in preparation for new OS installation.
 Date: 2004-09-28 22:53:50.859054
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-09-28
Body: Checked on access though new firewall. A major upload of Yellowstone pictures to my Gallery site.
 Date: 2004-09-21 23:07:18.812284
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-09-21
Body: Survived a IRC beep-attack. Got this older laptop caught up with ssh and openvpn settings to home base. Moved a bunch of photos onto web server.
 Date: 2004-08-31 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040831
Body: Got half way through one of the 4 papers he has to review ICCSS.
 Date: 2004-08-24 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040824
Body: set up another Toshiba Magnia with Debian.
 Date: 2004-08-10 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040810
Body: experimented with openVPN and got routing debugging tips from jafo using tcpdump. Got ready to work on firewall adjustments associated with this.
 Date: 2004-06-22 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040622
Body: added fwbuilder and a firewall to laptop. Investigated iConcepts miniwebcam to discover it doesn't work on Linux (http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2408). Discovered PCMCIA cardmgr doesn't appear to log card events (in Knoppix).
 Date: 2004-06-08 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040608
Body: Added a few more programs to complete the set required on my Sun laptop. Looked again at what's required to make Kismet work.
 Date: 2004-05-25 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040525
Body: Spent most of the evening working out that an upgrade to pciutils in a most recent Knoppix installation results in a poorly booted system and this appears to be becuase of a mid-April change within Debian. Advice is not to upgrade those packages from the base system.
 Date: 2004-05-18 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040518
Body: Rearched how I need to build Alsa into a custom kernel. Mailed Jonathan Schwartz about jafo's experiences with Sun Sales. Checked on how my Geeklog installation works.
 Date: 2004-04-27 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040427
Body: Broke his firewall while trying to allow DNS in.
 Date: 2004-04-13 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040413
Body: Worked on staying awake. Zzzzz.
 Date: 2004-03-30 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040330
Body: Edited latest vacation pictures for my gallery and learned that my firewall stops update of its own OS. Couldn't remember how to make fwbuilder add new policies.
 Date: 2004-03-23 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040323
Body: sshed stuff. apt-get updated for 13:27 seconds, clogging up the wifi for the rest of us for those few, precious minutes.
 Date: 2004-02-24 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040224
Body: I tested my ssh connection into my site, built a firewall with fwbuilder and a mistake. Now nothing gets through the external interface (not even the ability to deploy a new firewall script).
 Date: 2004-02-17 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040217
Body: gtetrinet. Read about iptables things.
 Date: 2004-02-10 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040210
Body: Understanding what nocat was doing on his Magnia.
 Date: 2004-01-27 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040127
Body: Got both the kinds of wireless network cards working on his Magnia with a little help from Dan.
 Date: 2004-01-20 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040120
Body: Getting the wireless connection on his Magma to work, and installed Bridging tools but didn't have the right module installed. Tried to get forwarding to work.
 Date: 2004-01-13 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040113
Body: Getting his Toshiba box, trying to get the network going for it.
 Date: 2003-12-30 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031230
Body: Caught up on Email, almost shopped for a Brother MFC-3820CN, generally slacked and then started configuring Enigmail.
 Date: 2003-12-16 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031216
Body: Made list of points for a requirements presentation.
 Date: 2003-11-25 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031125
Body: Asked a few questions. Reported on Key Lime Pie reputations in FL. And ordered a copy of: HackNotes(tm) Linux and Unix Security Portable Reference [Paperback] by Nitesh. I browsed a copy in the Books a Million store ($30) and it was a straightforward collection of tips and tricks that would be fun to check out to get a sense about whether practical security measures are really working on your systems. Online it was less than $15 used (Amazon.com).
 Date: 2003-11-18 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031118
Body: Updated security and network driver on another OS. Tried fetching enough packages to build Rekall http://www.totaltapeservices.com/images/fark/iraq-calendar.gif
 Date: 2003-11-04 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031104
Body: Tried to find improved firewall to allow vpn connection into corporate network. Looked at driftnet demo. Looked for new pointer-cap.
 Date: 2003-10-28 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031028
Body: Played with various kernels to see which would get him into Sun via a VPN.
 Date: 2003-10-21 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031021
Body: got help from jim to get gftp hooked up to sftp. Helped Tim with firewall blocking his network access. Registered my new bag with stuffbak.com. Learned that Poe wasn't just a Teletubby. Started installing wordbyword.
 Date: 2003-09-23 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030923
Body: Tried a number of synthesizer programs from the May 2003 Linux Journal article. Failed to get any working properly. Tried Brahms and works apart from the lack of sound. This did need some packages from unstable.
 Date: 2003-09-16 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030916
Body: Got the server side configuration of openvpn working. Did some Email and browsing too.
 Date: 2003-09-09 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030909
Body: Trying to track down an ALSA problem. Using nmap to scan his home machine.
 Date: 2003-08-26 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030826
Body: Entertaining Sarah. She raised the average maturity level of the room quite significantly.
 Date: 2003-08-19 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030819
Body: Trying to understand delete and update in SQLObject. Fixing his DefCon pictures.
 Date: 2003-08-12 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030812
Body: Checked out the core demo of sniffing tool. Caught up on where I was with JotWeb tests and where jotweb was. Caught up on PyDO my testing. Got my DefCon Photos in my Gallery. Checked out DefCon pix from previous years. Installed twisted-python package to use lore for JotWeb documentation.
 Date: 2003-07-29 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030729
Body: Absolutely nothing. Read some of the OpenVPN install docs. Did some prep for Defcon.
 Date: 2003-07-22 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030722
Body: Trying to get access to his CD again. Find out what's wrong with the kernel with Sean's help, then got to the HP gangs kernel, trying to figure out why his kernel didn't work and the HP one did.
 Date: 2003-07-15 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030715
Body: Tried STD-Knoppix and found it seemed to work fine. Probed my firewall. Played a little tetrinet. Prepared installation of OB500-specific kernel.
 Date: 2003-07-08 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030708
Body: Spiraled around in the need for getting an updated kernel. Trying to get OpenVPN installed.
 Date: 2003-06-24 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030624
Body: Too tired for any real stuff. Checked prices on Defcon travel/hotel. Checked InFocus X1 prices. Checked Kate Bush sites.
 Date: 2003-06-17 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030617
Body: Ant worked on using more of the PyDO methods in a simple example/demonstration. And completed reading Email for today.