I was just looking through my archives and remembered the Golden Apple Project. Ahhh yes. Well it turns out that the machine was so old it just stopped working altogether. OpenBSD was running just fine on it, but after a year the network card died and when I tried to add a netgear PCI NIC […]
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ISC DHCPD duplicate uid lease
Ever see this? dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.150 for client xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is duplicate on 192.168.1/24 or something like it, in your dhcp logs? Well I checked /var/log/messages today and saw that I had thousands of this message repeated over and over (so much so it was spamming my log and making it harder to find what […]
G.A.P. Part II – A Brief Review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 (macppc)
What follows is a rant/review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2. It’s the second part of the “Golden Apple Project” article series, which tells the tale of my quest to transform a formerly unused Apple PowerMac G4 (450Mhz, AGP Video) into something more useful than an unused OS 9 machine. After a somewhat discouraging attempt at […]
G.A.P. – The Golden Apple Project – Part I
The other day I acquired a hardly used PowerMac G4 from someone who was going to throw it out. Imagine that? It’s got a 450Mhz PPC CPU, 256MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, and AGP video. Certainly this nice little machine can be used for something… But what? Though I could probably get away […]
Designing BSD Rootkits (review)
I forgot to mention that I wrote a review for a book about designing BSD rootkits. You can find the review over at Daemon News