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Building a transparent traffic-shaping bridge

Building a transparent traffic-shaping bridge

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I’ve recently had the need to create a box capable of transparently traffic-shaping traffic across a single ethernet connection. Normally, I’d go for some kind of Linux solution, but after doing a bit of research it looked like one of the BSD’s with pf/ALTQ would be the way to go. After trying out a couple of popular ready-made “appliances” (m0n0wall, pfsense) I decided that the best, most flexible way, would be to get my hands dirty and roll my own….

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First glimpse of iD’s Tech 5 hits Youtube

First glimpse of iD’s Tech 5 hits Youtube

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The following was filmed yesterday at Apples WWDC conference. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuTtrkVtns At last! iD is producing a game engine than can handle outdoor areas and is actually LIT for a change! 🙂

Testing Windows Live Writer

Testing Windows Live Writer

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This is just a quick test post written using the new Windows Live Writer beta. As I’m writing this, I’m looking at a WYSIWYG view of pretty much what my post will look like on the site – Complete with CSS styles etc applied. Seems pretty funky and so far is much nicer to use than the WordPress built-in editor.

Getting the Microsoft PST Addin to work within Outlook 2007

Getting the Microsoft PST Addin to work within Outlook 2007

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This morning I realised my Outlook PST files had not been backed up since I upgraded to Outlook/Office 2007.  It seems that the backup addin stops working after an upgrade. A quick Google search led me to this information: Here’s how to get the free Personal Folders Backup tool from Microsoft installed and working in Outlook 2007: Download the pfbackup.exe file. Use WinZip or a similar file extraction tool to extract the files in pfbackup.exe, launcher.exe and pfbackup.msi. Double-click pfbackup.msi…

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Booting a Centos Xen Dom0 under VMWare

Booting a Centos Xen Dom0 under VMWare

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Just a few quick notes on how I got a CentOS v4.4 Xen dom0 to boot inside a VMWare Server VM… yum install bridge-utils SDL rpm -ivh xen-3.0.4.1-1.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.16.33-3.0.4.1.i386.rpm vi /etc/yum.conf Add: exclude=xen xen-kernel xen-devel kernel mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled mkinitrd -f -v –preload=scsi_mod –preload=sd_mod –preload=mptbase –preload=mptscsih –preload=mptfc –preload=mptspi /boot/initrd-2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1.img 2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1 vi /boot/grub/grub.conf Add:   title Xen v3.0   root (hd0,0)   kernel /xen-3.0.gz noreboot dom0_mem=128000   module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/VolGroup00/root   module /initrd-2.6-xen.img Reboot!