Name: Scott Schulz
Date registered: July 25, 2007
URL: http://ScottSchulz.us
Sep
18
The YubiKey, from Yubico is a small USB device which is about the size of a small flash drive, and which emits OTP strings when the button is depressed. The device can also be reprogrammed to offer static passwords and the new 2.0 version has a very handy management application available. The device is compatible …
Aug
01
Version 3.0 of the Apple iPhone OS now allows push notifications. However, for security reasons (presumably), Apple requires that push notifications must flow through their server, and are only allowed to be delivered to native applications. Prowl is a new application which allows notifications to be pushed to the iPhone from applications like Growl for …
Dec
07
Until my VMware server machine crashed, I had a pair of IPv6 tunnels running for many months out of a pair of virtual machines. One was Ubuntu Hardy with a tunnel to Sixxs.net, the other an OpenBSD machine with a tunnel to Hurricane Electric‘s Tunnelbroker service. Wanting to get back into the IPv6 address space, …
Aug
03
SpaceX have experienced what they are calling “an anomaly” during tonight’s liftoff of their Falcon I system. Early tweets on the topic indicate that there was an issue during tank separation which caused the rocket to explode. This has not been confirmed, but given the sudden loss of video from the launch vehicle, and the …
Jun
07
Since updating my laptop to Hardy Heron I had not yet installed an update git, so I thought it would be a good time for that: Install the usual prerequisites: sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev Fetch, unpack, and build: wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.3.tar.bz2 tar jxf git-1.5.5.3.tar.bz2 cd git-1.5.5.3 make prefix=/usr all Unfortunately, at this point I …
May
07
I’m not a huge fan of some of the things Adobe has released over the last couple years, e.g. the uber-bloated Acrobat Reader, but I do like their Air product. Sadly, until a couple weeks ago it was unavailable for linux… but that has now changed! Adobe Labs have released an alpha of Adobe Air …
Apr
24
I finally got around to fixing the molecule applets on here tonight, and while I was messing around with this and that, it was time to move this blog to WordPress 2.5 also. At this point, it looks like everything is working as expected, but let me know if any unexpected behaviour is found.
Feb
24
SANS are reporting today that Core Security have uncovered a critical security issue with some VMware products when the base OS is Windows. When running the VMware product versions listed below with a host-shared folders enabled (and at least one configured), it is possible for malware in the virtual machines to access the full filesystem …
Feb
19
According to NASA there will be a lunar eclipse of the full moon tomorrow night. Hopefully I’ll remember to wander outside and watch it, assuming it is not raining. From this news item on their website: On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and …