No they are not

No they are not, originally uploaded by marcn.

Squares and grids surround us in our built environment. Focus in on some squares today and make a photograph.

@dailyshoot #ds99

Green Moss

Green Moss, originally uploaded by marcn.

Backgrounds are tricky. They can make a subject stand out or distract from it. Make a photo with a good background today.

Evil Eye

Evil Eye, originally uploaded by marcn.

An old adage in photography says if you want to improve your photographs, move closer. Fill your frame today! #ds97

sshguard on Debian/lenny

The sshguard documentation is correct, but a little lacking.

Here are my notes of what is needed in case I ever need to re-do it:

• Download sshguard-1.4.tar.gz from http://www.sshguard.net/
  



• Unpack and compile (see the stock documentation on sshguard.net)



• In /etc/rc.local add the following lines before the "exit 0". This sets up iptables with a filter for ssh connections:
  
  

iptables -N sshguard

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j sshguard


  
  You should run those commands before you edit the syslog configuration. Or reboot.
  


• 
  In /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf add around line 190 the following lines:
  
  

filter sshlogs { facility(auth, authpriv) and not match("sshguard"); };

destination sshguardproc {
program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard"
template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n"));

};

  
  And down near the end of the file, add:
  
  
log { source(s_all); filter(sshlogs); destination(sshguardproc); };

  


And finally restart syslog-ng (sudo killall -HUP syslog-ng) and read the sshguard faqs: http://www.sshguard.net/docs/faqs/

Photos from Granite State Regional FIRST Robotics Competition

Here is the complete photo set:
NH Regional FIRST Robotics Competition

Ubuntu/lucid on hp2133

Tonight I wiped my hp2133 running Ubuntu/karmic and installed lucid.

The only pain was of course getting the wireless card to work. That simply meant getting the Broadcom firmware into /lib/firmware/b43

The instructutions on http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 were right on. You will need to build b43-fwcutter from source pulled from the git repo, but the commands are provided.

Are you a Linux or Java geek looking for a phone?

If so, then you *need* to get a Droid.

I think of the Motorola Droid as an "always on portable computer with G3, WiFi, GPS, Blutetooth, audio in/out, microSD, compass, accelerometer, keyboard and a reasonable size touch screen." Oh, and you can make phone call with it too.

The open source dev tools for Linux/Windows/Mac integrate with eclipse and includes the can't-say-Java-but-that-is-what-it-is compiler & runtime. Nice desktop phone emulator for debugging and on the phone there is a reasonable USB-based debugging tool. It was straight forward to compile some of the sample projects and put it on my phone.