Archive for November, 2005

Blocking Skype Using Squid

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Over at Help Net Security’s web site they have a fancy 3 page PDF available for download that details how you can go about blocking Skype traffic from your lan. The document by ‘rootn0de’ ultimately says you can deny Skype’s SSL tunneling behavior by have Squid block all CONNECT attempts that are specified by [...]

BoingBoing Breaks Paper Folding News From 2002

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Recently BoingBoing posted about Britney Gallivan’s successful folding of a piece of paper in half 12 times. The way the BoingBoing post and the updated Pomona Valley Historical website reads, this would appear to have been a recent event. In fact, the event was way back in January 2002. The news is [...]

Eclipse, ANT and sshexec

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

It took me quite a while to figure out how to make eclipse work with sshexec targets on ant build files. Turns out it was quite easy and even uses the cached identity used for cvs operations. Quite handy. The way I made it work was to tell the ant builder to [...]

Bizzare Tales of DRM

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Over at Big Picture there’s an excellent story of how DRM is killing the world of consumer media.
This tale is part of a larger struggle within the recording and digital download industry — not of P2P or piracy — but one of innovation and competition. As you follow this odd story (broken into 4 [...]