Interrupt-Driven

The current issue of the weekly german newsletter “Die Zeit” has a really good squib written by Harald Martenstein which reflects upon certain trashy tattoos which are called Arschgeweih. As far as i could see it’s not part of ZeitOnline.

The DaLug is hosting a talk about the future of VoIP.

The topics include :

• Protocols and standards
• VoIP and NAT
• Voice quality
• Linux tools
• VoIP and the Web

The focus of the talk is SIP. The date is may 28th, start is at 6pm. For further information have a look at the
announcement .

Interrupt-Driven has a new home. It’s no longer located at the digital analogy
of a farm track but has relocated to a fairly well connected vicinity.

After some fights with the moveabletype import/export function operations
should now be back to normal. If you notice that something is broken please
drop me a comment.

Many thanks to Collin for hosting meerkoetter.org!

Does anyone remember the classic DOS shareware game skyroads?
I certainly do and so i was quite happy when i came across
Skystreets which is an platform independent openGL based clone of the original game.

After some initial problems (read: fumbling around with make the whole damn sunday morning) i finally managed to compile the game. Only to find that without a graphic card with openGL support i’m stuck. The performance
is so low that it can only be measured in frames per minutes.

As an antidote for my frustration i turned to the web and discovered
that the fullversion of the original Skyroads can by downloaded from the website
of it’s producers. And best of all it runs without a hassle under a recent
Windows! The graphics are a bit dated but the game is still great fun.
I can only suggest to give it a try.

The “Scan of the Month” 31 results are out.
There are less entries than in the previous months but nonetheless
i’m happy that my analysis actually made it into the top2 entries. Woohaaa!

• Scan of the Month 31 overview
• “Official solution” written by the creator of the challenge.
• My analysis

I’m really astonished that some people in fact managed to answer the 2nd Bonus Question.

Even though the proxypot’s IP/Hostname was obfuscated from the logs, can you still determine the probable network block owner?

One way to solve this question was to infer the proxypot’s ip from
the scanning tactics of worms which hit the proxy.
I have to admit that i never would have thought of this.

AmphetaDesk is my current webbased news aggregator of choice. It is implemented as a minimal standalone webserver. This webserver is normaly only accessable from the localhost.

If you would like to run AmphetaDesk on a server to access it from different locations you’re runnig into problems. AmphetaDesk can be configured to also allow non-local request but there is no access control at all. This is most probably not what you want.

One way to solve this problem is running an Apache as a
reverse proxy.

1. Configure AmphetaDesk for local access (default).
2. Enable Apache mod_proxy.
3. Configure Apache as a reverse proxy by adding this to your Apache config:

   
   <IfModule mod_proxy.c>
   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyPass /AmphetaDesk http://127.0.0.1:8888
   ProxyPassReverse /AmphetaDesk http://127.0.0.1:8888
   ProxyPass /index.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/index.html
   ProxyPassReverse /index.html http://127.0.0.1:/index.html
   ProxyPass /my_channels.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/my_channels.html
   ProxyPassReverse /my_channels.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/my_channels.html
   ProxyPass /my_settings.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/my_settings.html
   ProxyPassReverse /my_settings.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/my_settings.html
   ProxyPass /add_a_channel.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/add_a_channel.html
   ProxyPassReverse /add_a_channel.html http://127.0.0.1:8888/add_a_my_channel.html
   
   <Directory proxy:*>
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Restricted Files"
   AuthUserFile /path/to/apache/passwd
   require user heinz
   </Directory>
   </IfModule>
   

4. Add additional Apache features as desired.

This solution sucks of course because you have to name every single request which should be proxyfied. It sucks even more because it could colide with your regular index.html but right now i can’t come up with anything better.
Any ideas?