There's no place like home

From Boing Boing comes a link to a review of a wooden gear clock kit.

This looks really cool and for $149 it's not unreasonable.

Might make a fun project.

Here is the site that sells them.

wireless.gumph.org

Looks like a good reference for Wireless Hacks.

Now if I could just figure out how to hack my Hawking HWC54G to add an external antenna... Maybe I should cut it open and play with it?

Than strapping C4 onto a hampster and blowing up monsters with it?

From the NeedCoffee Blog:

Well, it's a Death Jr. flash game. In the game, you're Death Jr., wielding hamsters that have some C4 strapped to them. You release them, they run towards a demon, you detonate them properly, and blow the demon's head off. You score points based on how much carnage the severed, flaming demon's head causes to other entities on the board once blown off. There's warp pads and floating demon lords and...I dunno, just oddly reminds me of what it was like to attend high school in Alabama. For some reason.

The Minneapolis Public Library is selling scanned and reprinted WWII posters!

Very nice stuff, and it's a nice online collection to browse through.

See it here.

STD is a Knoppix Linux based bootable CD filled with security tools!

It looks like a great collection too.

Check it out!

I may have known about this before, but the text adventure of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is available for play online.

I managed to Stumble Upon it today. (A fun Firefox Extension.)

There is a large thread on JWZ's Live Journal about weird Japanese TV shows...

"If reducing Teenagers to tears on TV isn't a worthwhile national obsession... nothing is. At least it's a damn sight better than the Japanese relationship with Baseball."

Many links to clips from weird Japanese TV shows.

Midnight's picture made it onto Stuff On My Cat!

Whoo-hoo!

Take a gander.

Photonotes.org is a nice site with lots of tutorials.

Thanks to BoingBoing for the link...

Okay, that was not fun.

As I mentioned in my last entry, I got hacked.

So I upgraded PHP and Apache to the latest packages available from RedHat for ES 3 (which is what I am running.)

Unfortunately, they are not very current. RH supplies PHP 4.3.2 and Apache 2.0.46. The current versions are PHP V4.4.1 and Apache 2.0.55.

Ten minutes after I upgraded, I got hacked again. A different hack, but still!

Both times they came in though the web server, so I took it offline for a bit while I regrouped.

So I had to pull down the sources and build. I figured it might make the most sense to use the RedHat RPM spec files to build with, so I grabbed them and mangled them to suit. And mangled them. And mangled them some more.

Those of you who have created RPM spec files will know what I am talking about.

But I prevailed and finally got Apache 2.0.55 and PHP 4.4.1 built and installed.

Now I just have to make sure that all the PHP apps that I have on all my virtual servers are up to date.

Just what I needed, something to do over the weekend...

If you would like the Apache and PHP rpms, they are right here. I make no warranty as to their suitability.

As a matter of fact, I know that the httpd.conf file that the PHP rpm drops is whacked, but I'm to annoyed to fix it.

If you are an admin, you can work around it.