http://r00tshell.com putting r00t in your shell Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:27:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NY Times Profiles Power Saw Drag Racing; Look Out, Baseball! [Sports]: " 
 Today, the New York Times took a close look at the fast-paced world of power tool drag racing. The inherent fun of placing lightly modified power tools on the ground and watching them tear off down the ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2008/08/07/ny-times-profiles-power-saw-drag-racing-look-out-baseball-sports/ Quick, its download day! Head on over and help set the world record for the most downloads in 24 hours: http://r00tshell.com/archives/2008/06/17/firefox-3-download-day-help-set-a-world-record/ Version 1.0.3 adds php5 support. For more information, check out the DNS-Control page. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2008/06/02/dns-control-v103-released/ I was messing around with merb the other day and wrote a quick app to check to see if your ssh key has been compromised due to the vulnerability found in the openssl package on Debian/Ubuntu. All you due is search for your ssh key fingerprint. All you need to ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2008/05/17/debianubuntu-ssh-key-compromise-lookup/ Lately, I have had a few people contact me about making changes to dns control. So i decided to license it under the MIT License and uploaded it to github. http://github.com/jmazzi/dns-control If you are interested in making changes, just create a fork and submit the patches through github. It makes it really ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2008/04/23/dns-control-uploaded-to-github/ SunRocket is going out of business! Check out this article. Or, you can follow along this thread on dslreports. If you are a current SunRocket customer, ViaTalk is offering a contract buyout for up to a FULL YEAR! Plus, you get 3 months free and a second line, for no ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2007/07/16/sunrocket-broadband-phone-service-going-under-time-for-viatalk/ Ok, I setup lighttpd on my machine and found out lighttpd can't handle some mod_rewrite directives (used with permalinks). Specifically, sending a request to index.php if a file couldn't be found. Here is an easy work around. First, you need to make sure your current theme has a 404 page. ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2007/05/16/wordpress-lighttpd-permalinks-without-rewrite/ ViaTalk is offering unlimited Voice over IP phone service for 2 years for $199. With this service, you have unlimited local and long distance phone service for 2 years. Includes: Voicemail Caller ID Call Waiting Call Forwarding *69 Free in-network calls And many more. DSLReports has a very good 91% rating from customers. Signup http://r00tshell.com/archives/2007/05/11/2-years-of-viatalk-voip-phone-service-for-199/ Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of working with ruby on rails professionally. It's been a lot of fun. The development process has been cut in half for the apps I have written. It has also been easier to maintain. How does this apply to DNS Control? ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2007/04/04/dns-control-20-ruby-on-rails/ I can’t tell you how many times I have been out somewhere and have had an idea that just faded away because I didnt take the time to leave myself a reminder (how often do you have a pen handy?). Now we have BrainCast. When I think of something I ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/11/07/braincast-beta-free-internet-phone-based-memo-recording/ 1) Download Perian.component.zip 2) Unzip 3) Copy to ~/Library/QuickTime folder (you may need to create it).Thats it. Also, this is reference to the post on digg The download has been removed by the request of the author. The version available here is now outdated. You can get the latest version here. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/09/29/universal-build-of-perian-05/ For those of you who woot, here is a page that will load just the name of the product, the percent left, and the price. Woot Thing Just click the link and the page will auto-refresh every 15 seconds. Works from cell phones too. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/08/18/woot-woofoff-script/ Spotlight is great for a quick search now and then. But lets face it, it can be slow and its search options are far and few between. Sometimes you need to find a file of a certain type or from a certain date. This is where HoudahSpot comes into play. The ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/06/16/houdahspot-a-better-spotlight/ Just drag the following link into your bookmarks bar: dugg Then just goto a digg article, click dugg, and it will take to you the cache version http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/06/13/bookmarklet-for-duggmirrorcom/ Today I checked my email to find the following in my inbox from my bank located in Albany, NY: June 7, 2006 Dear Justin Mazzi, Capital Communications Federal Credit Union has engaged Cathedral Corporation as our paper and electronic statement processor. Cathedral creates and delivers all member statements on a monthly basis. In ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/06/07/capital-communications-federal-credit-union-leaks-customer-information/ Well, MacZOT! said they would make SubEhtaEdit free if enough people blogged it, and they did! http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/04/26/subethaedit-went-free/ SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys is an excelecent app that allows true collaborative development. Have you ever edited the same file as someone else at the same time? Well, you can with SubEthaEdit. BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com has all the details. Please go on by so MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/04/25/blogzot-20-subethaedit-free/ Viatalk (VOIP phone service) has an offering of 2 years of unlimited VOIP service for $199. This includes: Unlimited Local AND Long Distance Voicemail Caller ID Call Waiting Call Forwarding Call Return (*69) e911 Service And More Viatalk is one of the best rated VOIP companies (91%) and you can ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/04/24/viatalk-voip-2-years-of-unlimited-local-and-long-distance-phone-service-199/ Ok, MacZot is offering $131.85 worth of software for only $15!. This ends tonite at midnight. I suggest you go over and buy the software while you can. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/04/07/maczot-amazing-deal/ MacZOT and AppZapper are giving away AppZapper. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/04/03/appzapper-13-get-it-for-free/ For those of you who use del.icio.us., i suggest you go download Pukka. Its a fast, lightweight posting client. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/03/17/simple-delicious-pukka/ Check it out Pics and a Video. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/03/16/fun-with-my-new-isight/ Since they haven't posted a universal version (intel) on their site, I went ahead and built it myself. Download http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/03/14/universal-build-sshkeychain-version-072/ A post was just made in our company blog about it. They are giving one nano away every weekday. Now would be a good time to go signup. ;) http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/02/01/viatalk-is-giving-away-ipod-nanos/ Full professional website with flash intro for sale. Comes with a domain name (hoststartup.com) and full source to flash and images. You can view the site here. Please send an email to hs1@hostrocket.com if you are interested. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/01/20/website-and-templates-for-sale/ Since there has been a bunch of people developing clients based on the code I wrote for allofmp3, I decided I would like to setup a central development project to keep all the efforts in one place. If you are one of those people, please contact me: jmazzi@gmail--------.com(remove the --------). ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/12/03/allofmp3-project/ Fresh off the turn tables, John Winkler Featuring "Random people he doesn't know".... Download Video(Avi) - Download Video(Quicktime) Remix:Download Video(Avi) - Download Video(Quicktime) http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/10/31/twinkler/ David Laube again. This time as Chew-Laube REMIX. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/10/29/chew-laube-remix/ Testing out Ecto. Its an app for OS X that allows you update all your blogs etc. Heres Dave "The Spoon Man" Laube: http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/10/12/testing-ecto/ I couldn't find a torrent for this so i went ahead and made a few. There is one for the dedicated server , and one for the client. Plant of Attack Beta 3 Client Torrent Plan of Attack Beta 3 Server Torrent http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/09/22/plan-of-attack-torrents/ Things at viatalk have really taken off lately. Take a look at our latest shipment of outgoing units. NocBlog.com http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/08/08/viatalk-seven-weeks-deep/ I wrote this script the other day for the heck of it. Its a script that allows you to aim fight someone. You can see it in action here, or download it. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/07/29/simple-php-aimfight-script/ The company I work for now offers VOIP phone service (aka broadband phone service). The prices can't be beat. Come by and take a look ViaTalk. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/07/20/viatalk-phone-service/ I have once again migrated to a new CMS. Last time, it was just civicspace to drupal, so it wasn't a big deal. This time, I have went from drupal to wordpress. Drupal was just too much for what I am doing, and I really like the feature set for ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/07/14/drupal-to-wordpress-migration/ DNS Control 1.0.2 has been released.. This one comes with a cool new feature. I haven't had a whole lot of time to work on this lately, but I will get to the Feature Requests as soon as I have time. On a side note, I only need one more person ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/06/22/new-dns-control-out/ Ive taken the time to actually somewhat customize the look of this site. Ive used one the animations from Exploding Dog (edited). I encourage you to go by and check out his animations. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/04/27/new-look/ Recently, someone told me about a site which helps you get a freeipod. It actually works which is a shock. To quote them "No doubt you've all heard of the Gratis Network giveaway deals: sign up, complete a (sometimes) free offer, refer a 'few' friends, and get a free computer/ipod/TV. Assuming ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/04/12/the-real-way-to-get-a-free-ipod/ If you haven't heard yet, HostRocket.com (the company I work for) has announced its plans for ViaTalk. It's going to be a VOIP company. If you're interested, head on over to http://vtunlimited.com for more info. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/04/01/viatalk-announced/ Rainer has taken the time to turn the command line script i wrote for downloading mp3s from allofmp3.com, into a GUI app for KDE. Go check it out when you get a chance. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/03/29/kde-gui-for-allofmp3/ We had an Easter Egg Hunt at work today. At 1:45pm Brendan and John kicked us out of the office. After about 15 minutes, we were all instructed to find the hidden Easter eggs. The eggs were all found in about 10 minutes or so. I was the winner with ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/03/28/easter-egg-hunt/ DNS Control is a web based dns management tool for BIND 9 name server. You can completely manage a domain from a web interface. It supports adding/modifying/removing A, MX, and CNAME records. All information is stored in a MySQL database. The interface(frontend) and command scripts(backend) are written completely in PHP(smarty ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/03/04/dns-control/ Here is another version written in python for allofmp3: http://r00tshell.com/svn/allofmp3/tags/1.0.0/all_of_mp3.py This version requires pycurl. This just makes us one step closer to a GTK version with more features. I currently do not program in GTK, so its more of an experiament. If you do know GTK and want to help me out, ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/19/allofmp3-linux-client-python-version/ Haha, I love exploding dog. http://www.explodingdog.com/january2/theywillneverknowitisme.html http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/17/they-will-never-know-its-me/ According to spreadfirefox.com, they have reached 25 million downloads. If you haven't tried firefox, I invite you to do so today. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/16/firefox-reaches-25-million-downloads/ http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html I wonder how this will affect bittorrent. Here is what the faq says: How do I know the download isn't corrupted? BitTorrent does cryptographic hashing (SHA1) of all data. When you see "Download succeeded!" you can be sure that BitTorrent has already verified the integrity of the data. The integrity and authenticity ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/16/sha-1-broken/ The Times Union came by for an interview at my workplace. Here is the article. http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=330983 HALFMOON -- Brendan Brader isn't a typical boss. He sits with his employees in a cubicle instead of the corner office. He lets them play Foosball or pingpong at work whenever they'd like. He wears ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/13/times-union-visits-the-rocket/ I have moved from civicspace to druapl. I really don't need the extra modules civicspace offers, and drupal is a bit more active on updates. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/13/civicspace-drupal-migration/ Signup so i can get one http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=11096859 http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/02/07/freeipod-com/ When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a giant buttered ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/01/27/a-friend-sent-this-to-me/ This script is for downloading songs you put in your download cart from allofmp3.com. All you need to do is add an album to your cart, then run this script: ./all_of_mp3.php "Folder_to_download_to" You will need to have curl compiled into php for this to work. I hope to later make one in ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/01/21/allofmp3-linux-client/ http://www.nocblog.com http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/01/18/company-blog-at-hostrocket-com/ http://vtunlimited.com http://r00tshell.com/archives/2005/01/07/something-clean-something-fresh/ I am working on a traffic management program currently. More details to follow..... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2004/12/14/traffic-management-program/ Looks like the author has given us a link to an updated guide. Check out this link: http://www.owlriver.com./tips/centos-31-ex-rhl-9 Here is what i found: * RH9 to TAO 1.0 Upgrade Instructions: http://mailman.taolinux.org/pipermail/tao-discuss/2004-April/000185.html: Step by step upgrade from RH9 to TAO 1.0 (From a post by Russ Herrold) 0. Take a backup, especially of /etc/, /root/ /home/ ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2004/12/09/migrating-from-whitebox-linux-to-tao-linux/ Below you will find all the downloads. Please add a comment if there is a problem. http://r00tshell.com/archives/2004/12/09/custom-rpms-for-fedora-2-3/ Mail gateway allowing emails to be inserted directly into a mysql database. It is written in php. It should work with any unix mail server(qmail, sendmail, postfix, etc..). Download http://r00tshell.com/archives/2004/12/08/email-gateway/ Here is how I made the physics bug video posted on Steam Forums: To start recored a in game, you run the following command in the console (the ~ key brings up console): startmovie nameofmovie Hit ESC to exit out of the console. When you are ready to stop recording, bring the console ... http://r00tshell.com/archives/2004/12/08/half-life-2-in-game-video-recording/ PHP Tickets is a Web-based ticket system with a MySQL backend. It features a powerful admin section, and is fully templated. It also has a style manager for changing colors, fonts, and other aspects of appearance. Download ticketsystem-1.10.tar.gz http://r00tshell.com/archives/2004/12/08/ticket-system/