Category Archives: Computer Stuff

Well it looks like OpenBSD 3.8 is ready to go. I’m looking forward to installing it on my zaurus. w00t!

Hey, one of the coolest ROMs available for the Sharp Zaurus, pdaxrom, needs your help. Check out this thread for more info, or just click here to go to the pdaxrom paypal donation page.

That’s right… they broke out, bounced, split. Seems they didn’t like the way things were working with Miro and the Mambo Foundation. Check out the story on newsforge and the developers letter at their new site. Mambo rocks! Go devs!

“Good morning class. Today I’d like all of you to download our newest release of Gaim. It features some major security fixes and some minor bug fixes and feature whatchamadingers. So download, install, attempt to climb a 5.12c, and have a marvelous day!” Check gaim.sourceforge.net for download links and the rest.

I was running an OpenBSD PF firewall here at my office for several months, replacing a Cisco PIX with something I felt more comfortable with. The only issues I had with it, were that 1) AOL Instant Messenger stopped working, even after I opened the proper ports, and 2) Optimum Online’s Web Mail ceased to work (it would immediately log a user out upon login. These issues were very minor, and so I left it alone. Eventually the cause of these 2 issues lead to a similar problem, this time with software made by ACT called Work Keys. The Work Keys help desk insisted that the problem was being caused by caching (i.e. a proxy server). I insisted that I had no proxy server. I had no caching enabled anywhere… so what was the problem? Well thanks to this email I figured it out! It has to do with NAT address pools.