Michael Dale

I got my X800 yesterday. I haven't had much of a chance to use it yet. An interesting issue that seems to affect these cards is that the heatsink doesn't always seem to be correctly screwed on.

This is what I did to fix it.

I'll play around with it more tonight. :)

Let Microsoft run your domain email, for free

Should give it a try sometime.

I decided it was a good time to upgrade to the latest version of cat-scan seeing as I have an exam tomorrow.

I was running a suitably old version (0.8.6) and it looks as though there have been a lot of changes. My plan was to integrate it the same way as I have done before, within the template. Unfortunately it seems as though the program is now designed to be a stand alone system and doesn't like running within my bluetrait template, it relies too heavily on the url to run. Since the urls have been changed through mod_rewrite and the folders are not in the default position, the system falls over.

So at this stage my photos section currently looks like this:

But that is okay! When I get a chance I shall fix it.

EDIT: After some tweaks from Ben the photos section is now working correctly, just needed to turn off error reporting, a fix will come at some stage.

Sun ZFS looks pretty cool

And some more info:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/demos/selfheal/
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf

A good article about Sony's root kit.

....and I wanted a Playstation 3, not so sure now :(

I've done some basic IPv6 stuff in the past, which only involved a single IPv6 address and a connection to aarnet. I was going to look into setting up a tunnel on my router (a m0n0wall box) so that I had both a IPv4 address and a IPv6 address but it didn't support IPv6 stuff.

Anyway I've got my cisco 2651 up and connected to the internet and it has full IPv6 support so I decided to give it a go. Aarnet also give you an option to run a full /64 subnet, so I decided to give it a go.

The web interface outputs a shell script that gives you the configuration needed for the router. So I modified by config (with some small changes).

The last section (prefix-advertisement) is similar to DHCP, it assigns an IPv6 address to any IPv6 capable computer/OS. So both my Windows 2000 box (with IPv6 kit installed) and Mac OS X system were given a full routed IPv6 address. No dodgy natted connection here, a full routed /64 subnet. :)

The speed of the IPv6 is pretty good seeing as it is running through an aarnet tunnel.

_{electra:~ michaeldale$ ping vee-six.telstra.net
PING vee-six.telstra.net (203.50.0.254): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 203.50.0.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=21.330 ms
64 bytes from 203.50.0.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=19.761 ms
64 bytes from 203.50.0.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=21.125 ms
64 bytes from 203.50.0.254: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=19.949 ms
^C
--- vee-six.telstra.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.761/20.541/21.330/0.693 ms
electra:~ michaeldale$ ping6 vee-six.telstra.net
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:388:c148:1:211:24ff:fe2a:f1b3 --> 2001:360::3
16 bytes from 2001:360::3, icmp_seq=0 hlim=58 time=25.059 ms
16 bytes from 2001:360::3, icmp_seq=1 hlim=58 time=25.874 ms
16 bytes from 2001:360::3, icmp_seq=2 hlim=58 time=23.465 ms
16 bytes from 2001:360::3, icmp_seq=3 hlim=58 time=24.281 ms
^C
--- vee-six.telstra.net ping6 statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 23.465/24.670/25.874 ms}

electra:~ michaeldale$ traceroute6 vee-six.telstra.net
traceroute6 to vee-six.telstra.net (2001:360::3) from 2001:388:c148:1:211:24ff:fe2a:f1b3, 30 hops max, 12 byte packets
1 2001:388:c148:1:207:eff:fe80:5cc0 2.565 ms 1.756 ms 1.422 ms
2 2001:388:f000::246 25.438 ms 17.068 ms 19.847 ms
3 gigether0-2-0.bb1.a.syd.aarnet.net.au 37.864 ms 27.464 ms 22.706 ms
4 gigabitethernet3-0.bb3.a.syd.aarnet.net.au 28.522 ms 19.571 ms 17.456 ms
5 eth0.ipv6.broadway.aarnet.net.au 25.852 ms 16.863 ms 19.326 ms
6 2001:388:200:4::2 25.896 ms 23.23 ms 25.435 ms
7 2001:388:200:4::2 26.875 ms !P 23.721 ms !P 27.306 ms !P

And a trace to my mac (the second last hop is my cisco router) from here

_{traceroute6 to 2001:388:c148:1:211:24ff:fe2a:f1b3 (2001:388:c148:1:211:24ff:fe2a:f1b3) from 2001:1888:0:1:290:27ff:fe9a:4b0b, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
1 puaiohi-fe1-0-1 1.761 ms 1.923 ms 1.961 ms
2 akepa-e0-0-7 2.737 ms 2.865 ms 2.922 ms
3 tunnel-henet-ca-us 62.519 ms 62.382 ms 62.737 ms
4 3ffe:81d0:ffff:1::1 61.172 ms 61.049 ms 61.039 ms
5 3ffe:80a::b1 63.145 ms 61.613 ms 63.022 ms
6 10gigether0-0-0.bb1.a.syd.aarnet.net.au 237.385 ms 227.818 ms 254.435 ms
7 broker1.a.syd.aarnet.net.au 222.550 ms 222.128 ms 223.146 ms
8 2001:388:f000::247 240.004 ms 238.553 ms 240.206 ms
9 2001:388:c148:1:211:24ff:fe2a:f1b3 241.638 ms 240.077 ms 239.622 m}

There were some plans to completely redo this site using AJAX over the holidays, and I may still get to it, but I'm currently really busy so that isn't happening at the moment.

Anywho I thought I'd try my hand at some javascript. I've put in a "Quick Comment" option for each post. Click it and you should be able to reply to the post from the front page. I quickly did it then. It maybe a bad idea etc, but I thought I'd give it a try.

I installed the Dreamweaver 8 trial to do some uni assignments as my copy of version 6 just stopped working (reinstalling didn't help etc). An interesting feature is that version 8 seems to handle some PHP, for example in the "design" tab it will process include() (and it correctly works out the path so /include/bla.php etc works).

Pretty cool.

One of my usyd English nerds decided there was not enough "English Wank" on this website, thus she has rewritten the contact form in an attempt to fix this major oversight.

Enjoy :)

Wow, it has been an incredibility busy last few months at uni. I finally got my last two assignments handed in on Tuesday. Uni + working has left little time for much else. I've got a Networking test on tonight at 6, Uni finishes on the 11th of Nov and then I have exams until the end of November.

Yesterday was much more relaxing! A group of us lock ourselves in a "break out room", got our laptops out and had a good game of Starcraft. :)

This holiday looks to be busy with Social stuff, a hopefully large development project, work at blue arc and maybe some relax time! mwhwaha.

Although I must admit I much prefer being very busy than having nothing to do.