Archive for May, 2008

Worst Spam Ever

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

It's not even really spam. I assume it's an attempt to validate random email addresses by analyzing bounces.

Entertainment Center Power Consumption

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

I used my Kill A Watt to measure the power consumption of various items in my entertainment center. PVR Antec case, Biotstar TF-7050M2 motherboard, Hauppauge tuners, 2.5" Hitachi drive. 80 watts peak at bootup 65 watts nominal Dell 2001FP 20.1" LCD monitor (not normally part of my entertainment center, but I was using it to reconfigure ...

SSH Key Generation and Conversion With OpenSSH

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Key Generation Generate a DSA key: ssh-keygen -t dsa This will generate an RFC 4716-formatted key file similar to the following: -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIBuwIBAAKBgQDijfpmyXBZpnq8EhEhSxeJz7fNxIlWYD6t7bviDZMARh8mLCr2 bug2J1K+Rl4qoLQJ7zRGlytwQ2krTCmvVahOjy9m/QW5936rCyVS19PRdJMEEMSN vLQaMtpKbnHp0z8Xs/X1CkDmxThOlvRVjiObdd0U9eELLoo5VHauVHmufwIVAO7j l4bxgVXeX09WJcyOXAUauNXHAoGAF20ESXgTvbbdxDECa2tfTi/j1/+emNV/+zuR aq6xms/K0piZhMlkK3BD9PgHhXfqZuRT/Z9b8ja3nR34H2KL3UInCNV6kSq6h+MD MLJnNQG4wADLYw3p5Tzz/hUwtfqpZ/9e7FpBdgfooS274GgPKTG8BFRiudIztPpK 4GueicoCgYEAy8hllDrFzQUqFG0kMe8r3dOFDjMQHf6ITttmAiScwEPg+a5D++Sq bj42vkKSNgaYHc+Z8QPgerPehIkBde6wx0ukq0a8IXy8F86IasXz3wzotPeJsdKi mynQKzhSm9Jzbk/SK/yh5NGhJzz1VmHsg+ir/qReguMHfqDGCI4kSFYCFDJKXQ4h MteJHSlu62RrGwInRBOh -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY----- An accompanying, OpenSSH-formatted public key file should also be generated under the same file name with a .pub suffix. It should appear similar to the following: ssh-dss ...

Compiling X264 on Ubuntu

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I noticed that HandBrakeCLI displayed this message: x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: none! I thought that, perhaps, I could gain some performance by recompiling x264 directly for my AMD dual-core, 64-bit CPU. It turned out to be quite a task. gpac Get gpac (check the project's download page for the latest version): wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gpac/gpac-0.4.4.tar.gz Unpack ...

Yay for Ft. Lauderdale Airport

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Free, open wireless. Not like lousy Dallas airport, which only has T-Mobile Hotspots ($$$).