http://boberz.thewatch.org All Things Through Duct Tape Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:57:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SSH RSA Authentication With PuTTY Read these instructions in their entirty before beginning the process 1) Download PuTTY & PuTTY Key Generator (putty.exe & puttygen.exe) 2) Open puttygen, select SSH-1 (RSA) SSH-2 RSA under parameters. Click Generate. 3) Move mouse until random number generation is complete 4) Copy the public key information from the top ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=20 As just about everybody knows, there's been record flooding here in southeast Kansas. Thankfully, we weren't effected directly the the flooding as our house is up on a hill on the west side of town - the east side is what got flooded. We did have some rainwater penetration though, ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=19 I just love it when software upgrades actually work. I just updated to the latest version of wordpress and it was quite smooth. Also installed akismet to tell the spammers to FOAD. Hear that spammers? F*** OFF AND DIE SPAMMER http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=18 Matthias has honored me with an inspirational poster titled "Futility". Perhaps it might also qualify as "Perseverance", because even though it seems like *nothing* ever works right for me, I just keep hitting it with a hammer until it does. I suppose that sometimes the problem is that I just need ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=17 Yeah. Blogs suck. I mean, if you really want to spend like 12 hours a day on your blog, it can be pretty cool. But I've found that I just really don't care. I think like only one person (might) read it anyways. That and I get spam. SPAMMERS SUCK. On that ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=16 I received this in the email today, and found it rather funny. It may hack off some, but do like you do with any joke - apply salt. If we can't laugh, we might as well just die. Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=15 Everyone knows that WEP is weak, but sometimes something is better than nothing, you know? How does one choose a good WEP key? Here's a hint, it won't be easy to remember ;) I've come up with this quick and dirty method of generating WEP keys: 40/64 Bit dd if=/dev/urandom size=1 count=8 | hexdump Will ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=14 You may (or may not?) know that I do a lot of work with fixed applications of 802.11a/b technology. I've been working with 802.11 since about 2001 or so, when Rowan Air in Chanute first went up. What a colossal flop that was - but that was due to two ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=13 So I figured I had to try out this new xgl+compiz thing. Oh. My. God. This is cool. Honestly at this point I don't see what actual /use/ it is, besides making the linux desktop that much more 'shiny'. But you know what? Who cares, because it's very shiny. I've been ... http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=12 Holy eyecandy batman! Novel has released some pretty sweet stuff in the form of XGL. Check out the videos at this blog. I thought the "cube" video was particularly cool. http://boberz.thewatch.org/?p=11