MavEtJu's Distorted View of the World - 2008-06

Posted on 2008-06-24 13:00:00
Tags: DHCP, DHCPDUMP

When I wrote DHCPDUMP first, I was lucky because the output of tcpdump, which is used an input for DHCPDUMP, was very consistent. Over the years this has changes a little bit. A lot little bits.

Therefor I present to you: DHCPDUMP version 1.8, now using libpcap as input instead of the output of tcpdump.

You can find it at http://www.mavetju.org/download/dhcpdump-1.8.tar.gz.

Posted on 2008-06-04 21:00:00
Tags: Traffic, Australia

Everybody who knows me that I'm crazy with cars. At cars. "Mad at cars" is the more the right line: I have a love / hate relationship with them. I know that todays society can't exist without them, but also that they are the biggest curse in todays society. Anyway, that's not the story here.

The story is about the availability of driver licenses in Australia: The joke goes that you get them with a box of Weetbix. And todays experience only shows that it is true. And why I feel so scared when I'm on the road.

So I got my dutch driver license in 1996, when I was 25. Wait, that was seven years after I was able to get it. I know. I told you I didn't like cars. I got my first car in 2000, five years after I got my driver license. I told you I didn't like cars. I moved to Australia in 2001, so I got rid of my car after six months.

In Australia you need an international driver license which is valid for six months or get an Australian driver license. So after six months I wasn't allowed to drive a car anymore. In 2006 my dutch driver license expired.

So, where does this story go to? Today, in 2008, seven years after I last driven a car, two years after my driver license expired, I got my Australian driver license. How? Just go to the RTA, show your dutch license, show some ID and fill in a form. Expired license? Not a problem. Not haven driven a car in seven years? Not a problem.

And you wonder why I am so scared on the roads here...

Posted on 2008-06-03 19:00:00
Tags: FreeBSD, FreeBSD ports

Since a couple of weeks Internode has a Sourceforge mirror, which traffic is free of charge for Internode customers.

If you want to prefer it in your ports configuration, add this to /etc/make.conf:

MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE= \
        http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/%SUBDIR%/
MASTER_SORT?=   internode.dl.sourceforge.net mirror.internode.on.net .au