http://djulius.com/blog It's about making computers do what you want, and not what you say. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:30:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a long time since my last. I hope to do better. Lately I've been working on a feature for our system which requires our server to keep some of  data encrypted. When accessed by a client, the server returns an XML formatted result where some of the nodes are ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=37 This is for all those out there trying to figure out why rtap0 is stuck on channel 0 while the AP channel is using some other channel. The secret is to set the channel when bringing up the interface: modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1 channel=x It worked for me http://djulius.com/blog/?p=33 Finally, I think I got it working. All you need to do is follow these instructions (carefully) http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/ http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/setting-up-a-dhcp-server-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron/ http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/dhcp-server-update-dns-records/ I had some linux clients that weren't updating the DNS records. Turns out they were not sending their hostname. A fix is found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-549612.html Still one of my servers kept "loosing" it's dns record. Turns ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=27 Not sure how to resolve this On Linux I have a mounted folder (sshfs src tgt). SVN has lots of trouble with this and I found that using a rename workaround resolves this issue. sshfs -o workaround=rename 192.168.3.10:/var/dev_linux /home/buildmaster/dev/ Still I'm unable to run make install from these folders. Running as the local ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=25 Finally managed to resolve some nagging issues: .Net application wont run from my network mapped drive Z:\ - The problem has to do with the location not being trusted. I found a post here that explains how to use CasPol.exe in order to define the network drive as a trusted location. The ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=21 It's been at least 12 months since I stopped using WEP on my home network and switched to WPA. I knew for a while that WEP was hackable, but I had no idea how easy it was using aircrack. A while ago I changed KNetworkManager on my laptop from automatic to ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=18 Last week I started learning Python. After playing around with Perl, and PHP I must say that I really like Python. I have decided to rewrite my backup scripts that use Amazon's S3 and EC2 services using Python. The previous version was written as a BASH script, with PHP scripts to ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=14 Everybody knows WEP is not secure. Everybody knows that dictionary passwords are a piece of cake. But Windows XP!? I was surprised. I figured it wouldn't be too hard, but 3m, that's all!? My password is not a dictionary word (it's not any kind of word at all), it has CAPITAL ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=12 Hello World! I'm Dan. This is my blog. It's about programming, software, computers, and whatever. Today I've managed to build a current version of ffmpeg on Windows. To celebrate, I've decided to start this blog, and share my achievement. If anyone would like a copy, or is interested in the details, let ... http://djulius.com/blog/?p=1