Older blog entries for buckley (starting at number 29)

:: All in all is all we are ::

Hey.. it's been a while...
OK, the vacations are over and the work is starting... No a lot more to say. eBeatrix is staning at the same point as one month ago.

:: Hacking ::

Done this, done that... no big stuff. I've been reading alot, and even improving my (argh) Flash skills. Anyway, I'm mounting a LAN at my house, where I live for studying, but I still couldn't find a hard disk for my gateway.

:: Reading/Listening ::

I've been reading shade's book and listening to 60s Jazz and the usual rock stuff.

:: New E-Mail ::

buckley@subdimension.com

:: Hacking ::

WebDesign + PHP + MySQL for the university. All day, and all night, for the last 2 days. I also helped all the elements of grin on doing they're pages. I'm completely fucked up now, I'm going to sleep.

:: Music ::

Me and sarahhave been collecting pink floyd videos, official ones and the Pulse concerts, and have bought yesterday the Wall (concert) DVD (half/half :)). If you have the Pulse concert, or just the song Comfortably Numb of those concerts, check the "there'll be no more !"#"#%!" part. It's orgasmatic!</a>

:: Hacking ::

Helped some frients till 7:30 am, while we were preparing the C programming exam tomorrow. The first casual grin meeting.

:: Hacking ::

None! although I have prog test monday. I'll give it a look tomorrow :)

:: Oddities ::

Dedicated the day on continuing to learn the Elvish language, along with pronunciation.You can know more on this subject with the resources I provide on my page.

:: Music ::

Pixies - Doolittle
Flaming Lips - Zaireeka

:: Hacking ::

I've been awake for two days learning stuff. I'm so happy I got together with the right people, and I'm learning more stuff in a couple of days than I ever learnt in my life. The topics of learnt/searched for the last two days were:

- shadow passwords: manually creating and decrypting
- SSHd security related stuff
- Network programming (Doc: Beej's Network Programming)
- protocols with things, other than computers, via C programming

:: eBeatrix ::

The system can already look for another gateway, in case the one predefined is down. It can go through a list of gateways stated on a file.

The script to decode the emails to real actions is being recoded using C code. It's almost done :)

The project is now "co-sponsored" also by another "company", and will be released by two different sides, with two different codes, as I'm now developing it for two differente purposes. Details soon.

:: Casual Life Causes ::

There is a group of people that will start to get together frequently for computer investigation, at my house. It will start next sunday. As so, the network in my house is being re-thought and now there is an independent server/firewall, which is not used by noone. Port forwarding is one of the next things to study. I already got the pdf's and the apps :)

:: Music ::

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Velvet Underground & Nico - The Banana Album

-={ e-Beatrix }=-

The project is now hosted by SourceForge, here. We received and commented some suggestions. Tx to ppl who sent them :)

-={ Culture }=-

Top 10 álbums of 2001
1 - A Northern Chorus - Before we all go to pieces
2 - Low - Things we lost in the fire
3 - Radiohead - Amnesiac
4 - Spiritualized - Let it come down
5 - Björk - Vespertine
6 - Stereolab - Sound Dust
7 - Microphones - The Glow
8 - Mercury Rev - All is dream
9 - Matthew Shipp - New Orbit
10- Death Cab for Cutie - The photo album

-={ e-Beatrix }=-

Me and Sara Afonso have released the first presentations of our project, as ppt, html, zipped or tar.gzipped html . The ChangeLog is also available. The code isn't yet.

-={ 2002 }=-

Happy 2002 for everyone.

-={ Culture }=-

Reading: John Grisham - The Partner
Listening: Sakamoto and Byrne's The Last Emperor Soundtrack
New Blog: here - Check there for my brand new tLotR posters :)

-={ Hacking }=-

I've been pretty busy with my project, but I can say little is left to be done. The crontab is set on the server, the shell for getting the messages from the email is done. Another for interpreting them is also done. I found a way of sending and receiving sms' and mails, through a "women only" server :) I've been also starting to do an easy security program to fit my needs, only based in C, netstat, syslogs and iptables. As is, I've been reading about iptables (and ipchains).

-={ Oddities }=-

I've been learning the Elvish language through a book that I bought and a couple of documents I found on the web. I already can say a couple of senseful sentences :)

-={ Music }=-

Bach's Requiem, Explosions in the sky and Godspeed you black emperor (I already got the ticket for their concert here, @Portugal, next 29th January.)

-={ Hacking }=-

I've been continuing studying for my project. I managed to find a way selfcoded to send and receive data from my computer on my cellular phone. I was lucky to meet someone I wasn't expecting, and I had an extra help for being nice. I've been studying criptography as he went helping me and giving me some hints, and also aiding on some doubts I had for my project. He introduced me to alot of interesting person, including an American guy called Justin that is a security responsible for one of the major companies and with whom I enjoyed talking a lot. I learnt alot. I'm so pleased... I am learning and sense I will learn so much with this guys than I was learning before. For the first time, I feel with the right company for aiding me in my long way ahead... people that do know what they are talking about, and are not into "hype" subjects. I already learnt about Steam Ciphers and alot more about pgp.

-={ Movies }=-

Yesterday I went to see the film version of the first book of Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring. It was simply amazing! Some screenshots are *exactly* like the pictures I had already seen by. The scenes that differed from the original book were fantastic. A continuous error: the first two arrows that are thrown to Boromir, hit him in the exact same place, although then it shows that was as near the heart and the other right above the belt. But, without a single doubt, one of the most kewl movies I have ever seen.

-={ Holiday }=-

Far away. I will be off for the next week. I'm leaving my telephone @ home and am taking no way for someone to reach me.

-={ Music }=-

The Clash - London Calling && Anita Lane - Dirty Pearl.

-={ Social Engineering :) }=-

Because of some bizarre sort of stuff, or just because I had shown some talent at programming classes (I'm so modest :)), my prof came talk to me about the new server that is going to replace all the current student-based servers. It's going to run all the student accounts and it's gonna be called "citrinix". After some talking about my new project (more about this ahead), he proposed me to sysadmin it, once it's ready. I made him see how little I knew and how unsecure things could get if the bofh of that machine wasn't an experienced one, but he replied saying that the experience had to come from somewhere. I got pretty excited with it, but it's going to mean alot more hard work and alot of hours spent studying security related topics, but I think it's worth the shot.

-={ Hacking }=-

So... about my new project. It was kinda described in my precious post, but I'll list all the steps that I can see know to achieve success:

Find a sms server that can send messages to mail

Study crons, to know how to check the mail

Code the Shell Script to check and parse the interesting part on the "mailbox"

Code the Shell Script to interpretate the parsed "code"

Find the syslogs that may report when the server is being "changed without permission"

Code a Shell Script to parse the info that matters and send to a cellular phone

Find a way to send a mail to a cellular phone

Along with cron coding, today, I compiled kernel 2.4.16 and got kernel 2.4.17-rc2 to patch it... but not until tomorrow

-={ Music }=-

Van Der Graaf Generator (still life) and Nico (Chelsea Girl).