by R.I. Pienaar | Aug 11, 2004 | Front Page
A few of the guys in the office installed SP2 to start testing out and see what problems we will have from users. So far we discovered that where we could mount WebDAV folders on our FreeBSD Apache WebDAV server using the Map Network Drive dialog in explorer this now fails. It does not send the username in the HTTP request at all. Accessing it via File->Open and selecting “Open as Web Folder” using IE still works.
For now the work around we chose is to use Novell Netdrive, it seems like it is a free download and it allows you to mount WebDAV, FTP and Novell iDrive folders on your windows machine. It is much nicer than the mess of doing it through Map Network Drive and having to fiddle usernames etc.
by R.I. Pienaar | Aug 11, 2004 | Code
After blocking China and Korea recently I have still been getting quite a bit of scans and unfriendly traffic. Especially people who have been trying to log into my SSH servers with some simple user accounts like guest or by trying root logins. It’s purely automated and hit all my IP addresses. This comes from Japan mostly so I decided it is time to rid my world of the Japanese as well.
Problem was getting a good source for IP ranges. Turns out Maxmind publish their GeoIP Free Country database in CSV format as well, so then it was just a matter of writing up a tool to take their ranges of IP’s and create cidr notation entries and produce ipfw commands from those.
I got a bit of code from Gary Colman to do the translation from ranges to cidr notation and built that into my existing firewall builder script.
by R.I. Pienaar | Aug 10, 2004 | Photography
Norwich Cathedral was built from 1096 to 1101, it was built using stone brought from Normandy. Between 1121 and 1145 the Nave was built and the present spire – the second highest in England – was added between 1356 and 1369. It is a magnificent building with a lot of unique features like its roof bosses – 100s of small figures that is scattered all over the ceiling.
I took this photo while I was there last week hoping to show the character and presence in this great building. I edited it quite a bit to remove various people and objects from the scene to get this completely empty shot, click on the image for a larger copy.
by R.I. Pienaar | Aug 10, 2004 | Uncategorized
Someone referred me to artcoup.com. The photographer calls himself Boogie and he takes some amazing black and white photos. I was especially impressed by his Subway and Gang shots, the Subway ones are similar to many New York photographers but the Gang ones are very good, they are quite unique in my experience.
by R.I. Pienaar | Aug 9, 2004 | Front Page
Lots of fanfare today about the release of XP SP2, I think I will install it on one of my machines and see how that goes. I had a bit of hassle getting a proper url for downloading it, so here it is. It’s a 250Mb download so unless you have bandwidth to burn wait for the auto updates version to come available that is apparently highly optimised.
