I used to post these on Facebook as Notes, but since the Timeline refactor, I frankly have no idea how to use Notes; so I guess I’ll just post on my own blog. I use last.fm (me) to track my music-listening habits (and sometimes for other things). As of some time recently, I’ve passed 60,000 [...]
Archive of posts tagged internet
Firefox 4 and Vimperator 3
I’ve been using Google Chrome’s dev channel for the past year or so as my primary browser, but between some questionable aesthetic decisions and Chrome’s tendency to segfault every hour or so for the last few dev releases, I decided that it’s time to give up on the faster browser in exchange for the usable [...]
dnsextd, TCP, and IPv6
Hello interested parties. dnsextd (in my git repository) now supports TCP. It was actually sort of an amusing bug. I guess the dnsextd code must date back to PowerPC, because it had an extra ntoh call which on little-endian systems would cause TCP requests to fail. It’s fixed in the “tcp” branch of my git [...]
Dynamic DNS: Part Two
This post is a follow-up to Dynamic DNS When last I left you, we had basic updateable DNS running and could update it from OS X. I’ve been a bit busy since then, but thanks to some prodding from @Loredo, I got back in and started looking at. What follows is the exciting story of [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: Dynamic DNS
It’s nice to have DNS records for all of your computers. It’s a giant pain in the ass to remember IP addresses, especially if you’re on something like a cable connection, where the IP address is dynamic (but only changes every month or two). Now, you could go ahead and use DynDNS or No-IP or [...]
