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Archive for February, 2010
Final Fantasy III: Tower of Owen
Feb 15th
I’ve been playing this game on and off since it came out for Nintendo DS a couple years ago. Yesterday I managed to reach the Tower of Owen which requires that you cast Toad on your party to get into the dungeon. After realizing I didn’t have enough MP to actually cast the spell, I made my way to the nearest inn to restore HP/MP to my party members. I then went back to the tower and cast Toad on myself countless times, which did nothing. After searching on Google for 15-20 minutes, I came across an old forum post (which I can no longer find the link too). In any event the post described the same issue I was experiencing. More >
Gentoo: iptables Multiport Module
Feb 10th
After finally talking myself into re-doing iptables on all of our servers, I came across an issue where the options “-m multiport --dports 80,443” wouldn’t work. It kept spitting back “iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.”
What you need to check for is the that the multiport module within the kernel has been selected and compiled in. You can find this option under:
Networking support —>
Networking options —>
Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter) —>
Make sure “Advanced netfilter configuration” is turned on, and then it’ll be under:
Core Netfilter Configuration —>
“multiport” Multiple port match support
I ended up having to recompile my kernel, but I’m glad I was able to figure this one out. The people in the #netfilter channel on Freenode were as helpful as usual (and by that I mean they were completely useless). The multiport module is great when you want to open multiple ports without having to use multiple commands, or for organizational purposes want to group multiple ports open. As from my example above you can see I’ve set port the HTTP and HTTPS port in the same line.
Robot Chicken
Feb 5th
Robot Chicken is the most retarded show ever. However, that hasn’t stopped me from getting all four seasons and watching them all…
NetNewsWire – Tracking Your Mistakes
Feb 1st
For a while now, I’ve been noticing more and more articles which have red strike-through text in them. I thought it was done on the article by the publishers, but then I checked out the actual article itself in a web browser and the red text wasn’t there. So after a quick Google I came across a MacWorld article which states:
Among my favorites of NetNewsWire’s myriad other features is the ability to track changes when articles are updated: If a site republishes a new version of an article, any deletions are displayed in red strikethrough type, while additions are displayed in green type.
At least now I understand what it all means…
