fak3r » geek http://fak3r.com look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 HOWTO fix a Nintendo 3DS with broken wifi http://fak3r.com/2013/03/27/howto_fix_a_nintendo_3ds_with_broken_wifi/ http://fak3r.com/2013/03/27/howto_fix_a_nintendo_3ds_with_broken_wifi/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:40:38 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=4139 So my son’s Nintendo 3DS wi-fi stopped working a few weeks ago, and I finally had time to take a look at it to see if there was anything that could be done. The situation was that it would work fine playing games or doing anything not needing wi-fi access, but as soon as you’d turn on... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2013/03/27/howto_fix_a_nintendo_3ds_with_broken_wifi/feed/ 3 My enhanced gitrc file http://fak3r.com/2013/03/01/my-enchanted-gitrc-file/ http://fak3r.com/2013/03/01/my-enchanted-gitrc-file/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:05:47 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=4107 At my last gig I got a crash course in using git fulltime, and I really enjoyed getting used to it, and leaving things like subversion and CVS behind forever. And yes, while I’m sure I gave Ant a few gray hairs on the way, we eventually got there together. He gave me a customized .gitrc... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2013/03/01/my-enchanted-gitrc-file/feed/ 2 Online privacy in the year of the dragon http://fak3r.com/2012/09/13/online-privacy-in-the-year-of-the-dragon/ http://fak3r.com/2012/09/13/online-privacy-in-the-year-of-the-dragon/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:26 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=4011 I was honored to be asked to speak at yesterday’s SecureWorld St. Louis, my talk was titled Online Privacy in the Year of the Dragon. My short abstract; “Businesses change online privacy policies to make user’s data, and their interaction with websites, more profitable for the website’s owners. Users need to understand what privacy is... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2012/09/13/online-privacy-in-the-year-of-the-dragon/feed/ 0 HOWTO update OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi http://fak3r.com/2012/08/12/howto-update-openelec-on-raspberry-pi/ http://fak3r.com/2012/08/12/howto-update-openelec-on-raspberry-pi/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:45:00 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=3957 One of my goals after getting my Raspberry Pi was to use it as an XBMC server. XBMC is an open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. It runs on Linux, OSX, and Windows, and works great as a set top media center, ala something like Apple TV. Meanwhile another effort... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2012/08/12/howto-update-openelec-on-raspberry-pi/feed/ 0 HOWTO run a Tor node in the cloud for free http://fak3r.com/2012/08/11/howto-run-a-tor-node-in-the-cloud-for-free/ http://fak3r.com/2012/08/11/howto-run-a-tor-node-in-the-cloud-for-free/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:20:16 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=3627 UPDATE 2 a friend has posted an awesome overview of Tips to running tor bridges on the Torproject.org site. Plenty of details so you really know what you’re getting into, bandwidth and cost-wise when running your own Tor bridge. Great stuff! UPDATE after running Tor on Amazon EC2 I have not been charged anything additional. Their... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2012/08/11/howto-run-a-tor-node-in-the-cloud-for-free/feed/ 0 HOWTO fix no route to host in OpenBSD http://fak3r.com/2012/06/22/howto-fix-no-route-to-host-in-openbsd/ http://fak3r.com/2012/06/22/howto-fix-no-route-to-host-in-openbsd/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:13:19 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=3897 I installed OpenBSD 5.1 recently on my new box that’s running Proxmox 2.1. I want OpenBSD to run pf to provide a firewall to protect all the other virtualized hosts on the box. I don’t remember what I put for my default route during the install, and that came back to bite me as I... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2012/06/22/howto-fix-no-route-to-host-in-openbsd/feed/ 0 HOWTO enable automatic security updates in Debian http://fak3r.com/2012/06/21/howto-enable-automatic-security-updates-in-debian/ http://fak3r.com/2012/06/21/howto-enable-automatic-security-updates-in-debian/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:50:24 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=3886 In installs of the latest Ubuntu Linux you’ve given the option at the end to turn on automatic updates for security updates, which a great option for a server. I’ve always been a big purveyor of autonomous computing, after all, they know how to do their job, so give them enough rope to hang^K^K^K do... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2012/06/21/howto-enable-automatic-security-updates-in-debian/feed/ 3 HOWTO create a normal MySQL user http://fak3r.com/2012/05/17/howto-create-a-normal-mysql-user/ http://fak3r.com/2012/05/17/howto-create-a-normal-mysql-user/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 19:04:23 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=3825 I found this online, and it’s a perfect example of a bad habit I’ve been trying to clean up for some time. When I’m trying out software that needs a MySQL database, I’m used to create database foo; but not creating a specific user for that database. Sure, if it’s in the install steps it’s easy... Read more »

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]]> http://fak3r.com/2012/04/30/howto-create-a-linux-livecd/feed/ 4 HOWTO use ionice to control long running jobs http://fak3r.com/2012/04/03/howto-use-ionice-to-control-long-running-jobs/ http://fak3r.com/2012/04/03/howto-use-ionice-to-control-long-running-jobs/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:21:17 +0000 fak3r http://fak3r.com/?p=3697 If you have a long running process (rsync, cp, find updatedb, etc) that causes a high load on your Linux system, it’s likely going to cause a problem (and unneeded Nagios alerts!) when it’s run via cron. This was happening on a server of mine that backed up the Apache Solr indexes every night, so... Read more »

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