11.27.07
Portal
Today, I intended to buy and try the insanely good game, Portal. Well, buy it I did, but I ended up completing the game in about 3,5 hours of dedicated gaming time. Its pure gaming goodness, I can easily recommend it for the measly 25$ I paid for it through Steam. The humor is spectacular and the end song is very entertaining. Also note, that Portal is a part of Valve’s Orange Box.
Just remember: The cake is a lie!
11.26.07
HFSexplorer
I’m using Boot Camp on my MacBook pro and sometimes when in windows, I need to access my files on the HFS+ drive. That has been tedious at best or expensive. But now, thanks to HFSexplorer I can extract my files! Yay!
11.15.07
The Birthday Massacre
Somebody somewhere mentioned The Birthday Massacre and I gave them a chance. Very much worth a listen. Go there!
11.12.07
tcpdump
This site has some very interesting uses of tcpdump. In particular I’ve used this one a couple of times:
tcpdump -i eth0 '(tcp[13] = 2 and dst host myHost) or (tcp[13] = 18 and \ src host myHost)'
It matches SYN packets sent to myHost and SYN/ACK packets sent back.
11.08.07
Café Pingvin
Last monday, a friend, who is a girl, and I went to Café Pingvin and had dinner. I can very much recommend a visit for their food.
Their service was so-so, but I gather it is a consequence by the layout. The restaurant has a large bar in the middle with large pillars holding the bar together. I guess that’s why the waitress couldn’t see us from behind the bar.
11.05.07
I finally got around to getting a facebook account. yay me! Anyways, you can find me here
11.02.07
Packet capture on solaris using snoop
At work, I’m currently debugging a problem requiring direct access to the network packets. The problem is between a linux box and a solaris box. At the linux side, tcpdump is my friend. On solaris, I’ve learned to use a tool called snoop. The magic that worked is:
./snoop -o /tmp/myhost.snoop -d bnx1 -P -q -s 181 host myhost.mydomain and dst port xxxx and greater 180
This command will capture all packets to and from myhost with destination port xxxx and a size exactly matching 181 bytes. To replay the packets captured:
snoop -i /tmp/myhost.snoop
