Wow, now that’s a frickin’ huge heat sink (1.4GHz Dual PowerMac) [made this a local link]

I’ve recently been doing some iptables stuff at work, and I took a look at some terminal based helpers (Jay’s Iptables Firewall and ipmenu) but honestly they’re not really that much easier than writing your own chains (or basing it off something simple).

Some more scripts:

• Ocean Park IPTABLES Firewall Example
• Technion’s iptables script
• ProjectFiles.com rc.firewall
• rcs IPTables Firewall Scripts
• Arno’s IPTABLES Firewall
• Monmotha’s IPTables Firewall
• Lutel Firewall Script – looks featureful

LinuxGuruz (how leet) has a list of IPTABLES related links (this Firewall Admins Guide to Porn is an interesting read). For log analysis, IPtables log analizer (php/perl web-based) looks pretty good.

Ref: blueflux Iptables-tutorial, FAQ: Firewall Forensics (RG’s most recent pub was a forensic analysis of slammer)

Gabe pointed me to the Max Payne Kung Fu Edition (just released). You must watch the trailer to see how frickin’ cool it is. Oh, the POTD at MPHQ is pretty good too.

Related: Matrixed Reality, Katana 2 video, XiaoXiao

• Classless Inter-Domain Routing Notation (CIDR Notation), part of InetDaemon‘s extensive tutorials (see: routing)
• CIDR notation chart – handy dandy
• Check Arbitrary Network Blocks in CIDR Notation
• Pacbell: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) Overview
• CIDR – supernetting
• O’Reilly Network: whatmask – a subnet calculation tool

wondershaper – originally part of the Linux Advanced Routing & Shaping HOWTO, does bandwidth shaping to maintain low latency for interactive traffic as well as to make sure that uploads and downloads don’t interfere. (req: iproute2) Cool stuff. For BSD, see PF/AltQ

• Everyday Practical Electronics: Basic Soldering Guide – also, Basic Soldering Guide Photo Gallery and The Basic De-soldering Guide Photo Gallery (and Black Museum of Bad Soldering)
• David King Bass Guitars: Soldering 101, A soldering tutorial for the mechanically challenged
• joemacjr’s Soldering How To – w/ 3D animations (pop-ups don’t work in Mozilla)
• Kelsey Park School Electronics Club Soldering Guide – includes a first aid section
• Electronic Construction from A – Z: Part I: Soldering 101
• More pointers, pictures:
  • UPENN EE Help on Soldering
  • bunkerMENTALITY Basic Soldering
  • Cliff’s FanBus Soldering Guide Part 1
  • Alltechbox.com Soldering Guide
  • NHRA Learning Basic Soldering
  • CAE Soldering Tutorial (PDF), Ramsey Kit Building and Soldering Guide (PDF)

ARE FILE SWAPPING NETWORKS CACHEABLE? CHARACTERIZING P2P TRAFFIC (PDF):

Our analysis of the traffic computed a 67%

byte-hit-rate which compares favorably with web caching

hit rates known to be in the range of 30% to 60%. Further, it

was shown that the disk space required for effective caching

of P2P traffic is small enough to be practical – close to

maximal caching is attained with 200 GB disk space.

Finally our analysis concludes that the byte-hit-rate

computed at our installation correlated with the traffic

volume, indicating that a higher byte-hit-rate may be

expected on links with a heavier traffic load.

Just got the new Animatrix episode. Averaged 1.44MB/s and took just under 2 minutes for the 150MB file. Hooray for Internet2!

I got an email from Tristan Louis about his proposal for a full disclosure xml feed, but well, again, I have to ask, what’s the point? Do you exchange a full disclosure xml feed with people you meet at a party before talking to them? Hint: if you think this would be useful in your day to day life, you are probably hanging around with the wrong people. (or perhaps you simply need a better rl-FOAF protocol?)

(this is totally ignoring the point of why a marketer would include this feed and getting browsers to adopt interfaces for parsing and displaying them. still, makes for fun conversation I suppose)

Chris probably has done the most in-depth (and interesting) research on this (which includes a ragin cow network count, all the urls, and an interview w/ the Director of marketing for this project. (And yes, Casey is cute, but I have better things to do with my $19.95 a month)

Disturbing. Sure they’re just suspects, but I guess the reasoning is that they’re bound to admit to something after you torture ’em enough.