My name is Rich Jerrido and I am the person behind www.outsidaz.org I am a geek hailing from the city of brotherly love. I started this blog a couple of years back as a dumping place for a lot of working knowledge of mine that I could have available online regardless of where I was. Over time it has evolved into being a full-fledged blog, complete with RSS feeds, comments, and pictures.When I am not hacking on computers for profit, I hack on them for fun.Read more about me »
Given the pending doom exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, I have begun to dabble around with IPv6, the set of extensions to the IP protocol stack. Given that most major ISPs have not implemented IPv6 end-to-end, subscribers such as myself generally have to resort to IPv6->IPv4 tunnel brokers to allow us IPv6 access to the Internet. [...]
This past weekend, I decided to take the plunge and try out XBox Media Center on Fedora 11 on my second Home Theater PC (HTPC). After some minor configuration issues and a hardware swap to replace a ATI Radeon 3650HD with an Nvidia Geforce 6600LE, and pulling down the RPMs from the FedoraJunkies repo, I [...]
Facebook broke the internets!!!!!! Ok seriously, I was experiencing issues connecting to www.facebook.com and upload.facebook.com from my home network today, and I was beginning to wonder if something was up with my laptop. When connecting to facebook, I would get the standard login page. However, after logging in, I would get nothing but a blank [...]
Well, after almost a year of running a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato, I have decided to return to running a x86 based firewall with OpenBSD for the following reasons: I want to run OpenVPN on a non embedded platform. I need to setup an Apache Reverse Proxy I need a Dual WAN router without paying [...]
A few people have asked me which plugin do I have installed in Pidgin to that changes my away message in Pidgin to reflect my currently playing song. It is in fact a script that I wrote that polls my currently playing song in Rhythmbox and sets Pidgin’s away message. I have decided to make [...]
One of the things I have struggled with for the longest is getting postfix and gmail working together. That is: I wanted to relay mail off my workstation to my gmail account. After googling a million how-to’s that involved setting up a CA and creating certificates for my postfix instance, I started thinking: When I [...]
One of the coolest things I love about *nix is the ability to customize your shell to be exactly the way you want. One of the first things I do on a new system is to copy over my .bashrc file so that I have all my customizations with me. From Wikipedia When Bash starts, [...]
One of the biggest challenges that small businesses & parents have to face is dealing with the plethora of threats on the Internet. Spyware, ads, porn, and that abomination of web design known as Myspace have made the internet an inhospitable place. Additionally, many of the tools intended for small/home office users are very feature [...]
What’s a *nix admin to do when they are work in a heterogenous environment? Make it like home. On my desk, I have two systems, my company issued and managed laptop, and my Debian Linux admin workstation. Its a pain to use my Windows laptop as it doesn’t have the usual amenities of a *nix, [...]
- To remove all the comments and blank lines from a file – /etc/httpd.conf for example. grep -v ‘^#’ /etc/httpd.conf | grep -v ‘^$’ – (Postfix) To extract the message ID’s of all messages going to the example.com domain: grep example.com /var/log/maillog | awk ‘{print $6}’ | cut -c -10 – Create an ISO from [...]
