Comments (1) The University of Ottawa Unix Users Group is hosting a party to celebrate the release of Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic Koala).
I wish I could go, unfortunately I’m stuck in Toronto.
For those interested, see the UOUUG events page for details.
Today, I wanted to check the status of my return at the Apple Store website. I returned my defective MacBook Pro yesterday. However, I found that the Apple Store is down. At first I was greeted with the following message:
Did not receive any response from application. It is possible that the application does not exist, or that the requested url is incorrect.
A few minutes later, this changed to a nicer page:
http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/server;jsessionid=7DEDBC5B817E1796D3DF5D5D3F1550D7.node5COMS?view=blog
OMG
“Six year old Falcon Heene was found to be hiding in the attic after allegedly being carried away in his father’s experimental balloon aircraft.”
(Images taken from CBC.ca)
Today a strange helium balloon was seen floating in Colorado. It was thought that there was a six-year-old boy aboard. The whole Internet watched in awe as the story unfolded. It was found out that the boy was actually hiding in his attic. Now the story is lolz, and has led to some precious tweets such as:
“What did Beyonce say to the parents of the 6-year-old kid that flew away in a balloon? If you liked it then you should have put a string on it.”
“Yo Balloon Boy, Imma let you finish, but Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time…”
“#balloonboy needs his ass poped…no pun intended lol”
I’ll say it again… what would we do without the internet?
So, did you know Shaq was a rapper? or that Jennifer Love Hewitt is a teenage girl? Here are some photos I found today on MSN.ca. (Yeah that’s right, I haven’t changed my IE homepage. because i use FIREFOX.) What would we do without random things on the Internet?
Starting next July, everyone in Finland will have the right to a 1Mb Internet connection. This is only a temporary measure, because in 2015 all Finns will have the right to a 100Mb internet connection.
If only Canada would follow suit!
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227&hl=
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182884
With Microsoft set to unleash its latest OS on the world in about a week, the Interweb is buzzing with all sorts of new Windows 7-related material. Some interesting things i’ve found:
Michael Dell says when “you get the latest processor technology and you get Windows 7 and Office 2010, you will love your PC again; we actually have not been able to say that for a long time.” Let’s hope that’s true.
Windows 7 also improves touch and tablet support, bringing a wave of new touch and pen powered devices. You’ve seen the HP TouchSmart PCs, and the old Tablet PCs. Now Acer has announced a relatively cheap (799USD) 15.6″ touchscreen laptop, the Acer Aspire 5738PG. Looks interesting, but I won’t be getting one… my wallet is still hurting after being hit by that MacBook Pro.
On a more personal note, I’ll be heading to Ottawa on the 26th for some training on Windows 7 Desktop optimization… should be interesting; also, Ottawa!
Also, less in the mainstream but equally exciting, only 15 days to go before Ubuntu Karmic!
This blog is running from an OpenVZ container on a server with a single public IP. There is no separate router; the eth0 interfaces is connected directly to the Internet. Therefore, I had to create a vlan with private IPs for my containers which would share the one public IP. Here’s how I did it.
/etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.254 gateway x.x.x.x auto venet0:0 iface venet0:0 inet static address 172.29.247.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 |
Note that the venet0 interface is created when installing OpenVZ. By default it has no IP. I assigned a static IP of 172.29.247.100 and netmask of 255.255.255.0 to allow space for a whole lot of containers. Now for the fun part, messing with iptables.
# NAT VM subnet (247) to external ip /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 172.29.247.0/24 -o eth0 -j SNAT --to x.x.x.x # Allow all traffic for venet0 interface /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i venet0 -j ACCEPT # ssh to containers /sbin/iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -d x.x.x.x --dport 2222 -j DNAT --to 172.29.247.103:22 /sbin/iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp -d 172.29.247.103 --dport 2222 /sbin/iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -d x.x.x.x --dport 2223 -j DNAT --to 172.29.247.102:22 /sbin/iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp -d 172.29.247.102 --dport 2223 |
It may not be the optimal solution, but it works, it’s stable, and I’m quite proud of myself.
Someone at the school board received this spam message today. I must say this variation is better than the usual junk about viagra and rolexes ;). But seriously, what are they expecting to get out of this?
bonjour!!! ca va??? je m’appelle Svetlana. j’ai 29 ans.
j’ai deja eu une mauvaise experience de parler avec les hommes dans l’internet.
nous avons eu une correspondance exceptionnelle tres longtemps et je l’ai cru.
j’ai l’habitude de croire les hommes mais cet homme a casse mon coeur.
j’etais choquee et je ne savais pas ce que je devais faire. j’ai cesse a croire les hommes.
j’ai commence a travailler ferme pour oublier tout.
j’ai reussi a faire la cariere mais j’ai compris que la vie ce n’est pas le travail.
je veux etre aimee et je veux offrir l’amour.
je ne sais pas pourquoi je te dis ca j’ai regarde ton prifil et j’ai decide de t’ecrire.
je deteste le mensonge et les jeux avec les gens.si tes intentions sont serieuses ecris mon email: [email protected]
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