tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50486062009-11-17T12:29:23.798-05:00My rant's and raves.Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-19077095645902045842008-07-28T22:21:00.001-04:002008-07-28T22:21:49.065-04:00

What does an OCD do when he has an afternoon to kill and 3 computers to setup? He does what your about to see. Total cost is approx $20.$10 pegboard$1 for each bag of wingnuts, screws and washers$10 for the nylon tiesSo I have 3 computers. A linux box, windows box, and a linux router. They're all accessible via a 4-port KVM. This equates to a mess of power, monitor and network cables. My previous

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Daniel came to stay with me for a few days. I had a spare cube next to my desk which he sat in. He 'worked' there a few days.There was one day I was a few rows of cubes away and heard bagpipe music. I knew it wasn't one of my techs. Obviosally I walked up on Daniel to see a bagpipe video playing.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-42079680283116901182008-04-02T23:20:00.000-04:002008-04-02T23:21:11.966-04:00

Truman prefers being rubbed by feet rather than hands.

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Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1166028536283100872006-12-13T11:40:00.000-05:002006-12-13T11:48:56.300-05:00

Red Hat & JBoss merged recently. During that time, I was asked to look at their Operations Network. One of the things I noticed was rss feeds for their errata and releases. Why doens't RHN have that? So I made these feeds to update every 12 hours (6am EST/6pm EST).The feeds and the script I use to make them are found here:http://people.redhat.com/mdavis/rss/Soon I'll make a feed for each

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1148786776706331512006-05-27T23:09:00.000-04:002006-05-27T23:26:16.716-04:00

I ran into a delima with wanting to secure sss. My requirements were simple:1 - Allow ssh over port 22 for regular users2 - Deny root for port 223 - Allow root on a non-standard port4 - Managable via init scriptsThe answer was to spawn a 2nd sshd on a 2nd port and deny root access on sshd port 22. But having it manged via init.d was tricky. But here's how I did it on my RHEL4 box (applical to

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1145418357735859962006-04-18T23:42:00.000-04:002006-04-18T23:45:57.750-04:00

I've been looking for a working example of dictoinary attack block using iptables. This link has a working example and gave the reason why his example is different from the others you'll find online. The working example is:# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 -j DROP# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m

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It was our Australian Zoo day today. And in short, I wasn't too impressed. It had it's perks, but all in all, not too much to make me want to go back. It did give me a chance to try out my new camera, which the camera passed quite well.I've never been too impressed with zoos. I enjoy active animals. Animals which do things, anything. But in the zoo, most of the animals are either sleeping

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1142859531291681552006-03-13T22:44:00.000-05:002006-03-20T07:58:51.303-05:00

Today was a sad and joyful day.. The sad part was my camera (Sony DSC-P93) died. Turns out the iris does not open anymore. This was a bad thing for me. As you currently know, I'm in Australia, and Teri flew in today. The last picture I took with the old Sony was of Teri right after she got off the plane. Which leads into the joyful part.Teri and I have been apart for 6 weeks now. It was

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I went climbing with a buddy from work today. It was an indoor joint, with a ton of ropes and walls and walls to climb. This was officially my first time climbing, with gear and the whole get-up. I've climbed rocks in the mountains, but never anything as challanging as this.I started off on an easy climb. I was at the top before I knew it. Then we tried a very challanging climb. Both me and

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1140357638635102562006-02-18T23:02:00.000-05:002006-02-19T09:00:38.650-05:00

This guy was sitting in the middle of the city with his blow pipe thing trying to tell stories about the hardships he's been through as an aborigine.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1140356392132945642006-02-16T23:24:00.000-05:002006-02-19T08:40:21.506-05:00

Australia is more commenly known to have been started as a penal colony. From the Australia article at wikipedia:After sporadic visits by fishermen from the north and by European explorers and merchants starting in the 17th century, the eastern half of the continent was claimed by the British in 1770 and officially settled as the penal colony of New South Wales on 26 January 1788.The word penal

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Recently our apartment was broke into. Well, tonight the tables were turned and we had to do the breaking in. After dinner at a steak house (which had amazing steak) and dessert at an ice cream parlor, we got home to realize we didn't have the keys to the apartment.Luckily I left my window open to my room. The main part of the apartment was not accessable. We've done a good job of locking the

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1139573042997080692006-02-10T07:01:00.000-05:002006-02-10T07:04:02.996-05:00

Life in Australia just got a lot better. After going to the city to do some shopping, I found a Quiznos in the food court. It was in on a floor with a lot of other american food joints (McDonalds, KFC, Subway for example). I had my normal.. Regular on White turkey and guac with red-wine vinegerette dressing and no onions. It's to die for. Its not as good over here than in the US. They just

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1139572740334076652006-02-10T06:40:00.000-05:002006-02-10T06:59:02.180-05:00

Last night we were robbed. We were asleep when it happened. They came up the apartment into the kitchen and took a Sony PSP, games, and corn flakes. The apartment I'm staying in is on the second floor. But from the road you can get to it, as you can see:Anyway, I'm a sound sleeper, and nearly deaf in one ear. They could have come into my room and I'd been oblivious to the whole thing.The

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1139058578019467592006-02-04T07:21:00.000-05:002006-02-15T09:21:43.543-05:00

It was planned to climb a mountain today. Me, being used to the NC mountains, expected a nice stroll, coupled with maybe some steep hills. Little did I know. I stared up at this when we drove up.It's called Mount Beerwah.Elevation (feet): 1824Elevation (meters): 556Range: Glasshouse MountainsCountry: AustraliaContinent: Australia/OceaniaLatitude: -27Difficulty: ScrambleThere was a hardcore

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1136868712918746592006-01-09T23:50:00.000-05:002006-01-09T23:51:52.930-05:00

I had to post this. This is defiently good news since this is the company I work for:Company Outscores All Vendors in CIO Insight Study for Second Consecutive YearRALEIGH, NC- January 9, 2006 - Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that for the second consecutive year, Ziff Davis' CIO Insight Research Study has named Red Hat the

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1136863932713328422006-01-09T22:26:00.000-05:002006-01-09T22:32:12.723-05:00

Me and Teri have been enjoying the comedy of Russell Peters. He's a halarious Indian comedian. Below are a few of his funny clips hosted on google video:Mixing WeddingNo more White peopleIndian RedneckThat should be enough to give you an idea of how good he is. You can see more here.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1133280818817687152005-11-29T11:10:00.000-05:002005-11-29T11:13:38.826-05:00

One of my Knowledge Base articles were featured in this months Red Hat Magazine.

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DSC01530 Originally uploaded by matthewdavis.Not too long ago I got bored and found this site. So I decided to dump out my jar of pennies and try it out. Above is the result of a night of boredom.More penny towers.

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DSC01695 Originally uploaded by matthewdavis.We've recently (been at least a month now), aquired a cat. He's been a good addition to the family. There's something soothing animals do to you. He has his crazy moments, but who doesn't?Anyway, this is him in his lay-z-boy. Click here for more truman pictures.

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This has got to be one of the funniest video's I've seen in a long time. Its just a japenese guy going around yelling at people at random times.Link

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Wedding PictureOriginally uploaded by matthewdavis. On the 19th of March 2005, I got married to Teri. We met through the church singles ward. It was your typical Mormon engagement of about 5-6 months. It was a crazy few months, but I did my best to stay out of the way. There are a few things that I really wanted to do differently, but its not my place to make those calls.The reception went

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This is just downright weird. Dead Man Keeps Paying Bills.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02647285148291113135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048606.post-1089659450334773232004-07-12T15:07:00.000-04:002007-01-05T00:49:58.511-05:00

I saw this article in the March edition of PC World. It looks like you'll be able to 'burn' the cd label. Here's another link about it from PC World. This looks very cool.From PC World:"The first LightScribe drives and media are expected to hit the market about six months from now, from leading manufacturers such as Hitachi-LG, MicroVision, Mitsubishi Chemical, Moser Baer India, Sonic

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