Author: Ryan

MSI Wind U100

Ryan1 Comment on MSI Wind U100Debian, Laptop, linux, MSI, Windows

I bought myself a laptop this week.  To be more precise I bought a MSI Wind U100 “Luxury” version in white with 2GB Ram. It arrived today, and I have been spending most of the afternoon setting up Windows. I must say, I’m positively surprised about how good it works and the default setup. It came with 3 partitions, the first (about 3GB) is a rescue system, the second (about 50GB) has windows installed, and the rest (100GB) was an empty partition. I reduced the last partition to 50GB and will be installing Linux in the other half later on (Dual-Boot). It seems most of the community is only interested in installing ubuntu on the msi wind, so let’s see how far I get with a “normal” debian install. Not that ubuntu is bad, I use it often enough as a desktop installation, but this laptop isn’t really your standard hardware or usage here. So debian it will be, and minimized/customized to to what I want efficiently and good looking ;-).

Since there are plenty of reviews floating around the ‘net, I’ll spare you all a rant about how cool the notebook is.

Hackit Server downtime

Ryanbroken, hackit, linux, ssh

Sorry for the downtime, wasn’t planned. It was late last night when I set up the knock daemon, I somehow managed to accidently copy and past my terminal which resulted in about a quarter of my /etc/init.d/* scripts getting broken. Unfortunatly I didn’t notice it right away. I did notice it when I rebooted the server (kernel change) and lot’s of daemons didn’t come up (oh unimportant stuff like SSH 🙁 ) Well, that’s what backups are for.

knock daemon with INPUT chain set to default ACCEPT

Ryanbasg, iptables, knock, linux, Server, ssh

I know there are plenty of pages floating around the Internet about knock daemons that open ports in a firewall after a predefined series of ports are “knocked”. For some reason ALL the pages I found assumed that a) you want the filter in your INPUT chain, and that the INPUT chain defaulted to DROP or REJECT.
In my case, I’m defiantly not going to have a iptables firewall with a default that drops packets. Every few weeks I try out some new software and can’t be bothered with adjusting my firewall every time. All I need it to do is keep pesky people off my ssh, that’s all.

So here is a short tutorial how to set up s knock daemon with a ACCEPT default for INPUT:

/etc/knockd.conf

iptables:

Work

Ryan1 Comment on Workclimbing, work

I didn’t get around to updating last week, as of October I’m working at a new company. The new job is fun, and totally different environment (went from a company in the financial sector with 5000+ people to a company that develops and publishes games with around 150 people). The company is real cool, and the colleagues are nice.

I didn’t do much last weekend, we played some board games with friends. I should get back to climbing, haven’t done anything in a week.

Hiking

Ryan6 Comments on Hikingclimbing, geocache, hiking, Klettern, wandern

We went hiking yesterday, west of Bad Bergzabern. We had a look at “Puhlstein”. You have a fantastic lookout from one end, and a long row of rock formations protrude from the top of the hill. There were a couple castle ruins surrounding the hill, so the view was nice too.

We saw a family climbing (it was still sunny and warm, but on the shadow side of the hill it was a bit windy and cold). And we saw some interresting routes in the rocks. We also found a geocache (I had loaded all nearby gecaches into my gps before we left), so that rouded up a nice day outdoors.