Documents

libHX 3.x Documentation
Introduction to Xtables-addons (presentation)
Writing your own Netfilter modules (Xtables, iptables)
Towards the Perfect Ruleset (iptables)
Detecting and deceiving network scans with Chaostables
Implementation of a Turing simulator (English)
Implementation eines Turingsimulators (German)
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Software Projects

ccgfs – Transport-agnostic network filesystem
Chaostables – Detect, deceive and slowdown portscans
hxtools — Collection of tools and shell scripts
libHX – Library for commonly needed tasks in C
posixovl — POSIX overlay filesystem
ttyrpld – Multi-platform tty keylogger/screenlogger
Vitalnix User Management Suite – Storage-independent useradd/etc.
Xtables-addons – additional extensions for iptables
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Software repositories for SUSE are at http://jftp.medozas.de/.

Images

Netfilter packet flow and hook/table ordering
Netfilter Components
German keyboard with US/CCJ+DE mapping (The Perfect Keyboard)
GIT tree/changeset flow
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so-versions vs. program versions

April 11, 2010

One must not use the so-version of a library as a release version or vice versa. A release version is something that people use for things like VCS tags, tarballs, and the "Version:" field of pkgconfig .pc files, among others. (read more...)

Encoding problems identified and corrected easily

March 08, 2010

So one customer's webpage showed odd characters in otherwise normal text, like “we’re”. No doubt this looked very much like an encoding error between ISO-8859 and UTF-8; three characters and all being outside the ASCII plane is a hint to this. (read more...)

A new system

November 21, 2009; updated March 08, 2010

[ares] Linux 2.6.32-jen93-default sparc64 | 24x UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) | Load: 0.03 Tasks: 431 | MemUse: 1842/7922MB | DiskUse: 92/1833GB (output from hxtools's sysinfo tool) has a nice ring to it, in the midst of an x86-deluded world. (read more...)

Package building on OpenSUSE with lbuild-jplus

September 08, 2009

lbuild-jplus is the name for a August 2009 package of Novell's “build” tool, plus changes from Ludwig Nussel, plus my changes, which add per-user configuration files, additional build environment defaults, and other fixes. (read more...)

Unreal Tournament Key Bindings

August 08, 2009

There seems to be a bug in UT99 v451 in that the voice menu, as triggered with the “V” key by default, just retracts even while you hold the key. To counter this you can define key bindings. (read more...)

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