Doing some wardriving i found that having no power supply for the GPS receiver is a bad thing. As i anyway used a USB/Serial converted i thought of simply driving the GPS receiver from the USB port. Cutting of the insulation of the USB/Serial converter i found this.
As Spam gets a more and more interesting problem i am doing experiments on how to prevent spam from beeing received. Additionally i am doing statistics about spam received in my inboxes. See here for my current documentation.
I bring down the number of mails a SPAM drone can send out i was thinking about rate limiting DSL users with an SMTP proxy. To use some common technique i was thinking about SMTP proxying via WCCP (Web Cache Coordination Protocol). I did a little proof of concept.
After i did some wardriving a couple of years ago and did not save the results i have done so now. Wardriving in "Ostwestfalen-Lippe" shows some data of and around my current hometown.
I found a nice title of a paper presented at LISA 2002 - Its title was "Over-Zealous Security Administrators Are Breaking The Internet" which gets the point. Dropping ICMP disregarding the type or code was never a good idea and it effectively breaks parks of how TCP works. This is getting a bigger and bigger problem in the PPPoE worlds as this causes the MTU on a link in the middle to be reduced. See pmtud.rfc822.org for my page with automatic testing capabilities.
I was fed up of giving away my e-mail address wherever i was going to download some 10 lines of code. I tried using Mailinator and other services and didn't like their HTML or attachment handling so i decided to write my own read only, anonymous webmailer. See http://wasteland.rfc822.org.
Retrieve files via scp from a host not beeing able to read other peoples and system files. Share the uid among all users. See my solution for this problem.
Before another effort to bring this to life gets discarded i am publishing what i have here.
Streaming of full DVB-S transponders into multiple multicast groups, one per program either Radio or Television, as a demultiplexed TS (Transport Stream).
MiniLinux is a small Debian based distribution which is made for running read-only from an ramdisk and mounting the binarys read-only from a loopback squashfs.
SM-LOM" is a Light out Management for non LOM enabled machines e.g. Digital Decstations, SNI RM200 and others. It provides a USB to Serial converter, a power switch and a reset switch.
MP3 Terminal is a project of mine to build a MP3 Hifi Terminal for the Living room usable with a touchscreen and easy to use much like your good old CD Player