Recent Posts by Dan Anderson

In the great tradition of many Sun bloggers, here's my South Park Portrait: width="262" height="262" border="0" alt="Dan Anderson" />

Trusty assistant servicing prototype antenna Most people reading this have probably heard of "wardriving," where somone drives around wtih a wifi laptop with a GPS looking for wireless "hotspots" (Access Points or APs). The results are typically uploaded to a website such as Wigle.net where one can view the APs on a map or chart. A few years ago, someone in San Diego tried "warflying " over San Diego. Well, out of curiosity I decided to try wardogwalking, walking my dog lookin...

The following are notes on how to enable MediaWiki, PHP, MySQL, and Apache in Solaris 10. MediaWiki enables a Wiki using the same software as the WikiPedia encyclopedia that anyone can view and edit online. MediaWiki requires a PHP-enabled webserver and MySQL. Stock Solaris 10 comes with Apache and MySQL. PHP is installed from the Solaris Software Companion CD. MediaWiki consists of downloaded PHP scripts that use MySQL. The following details each step. MySQL MySQL is part of...

Toorcon 7: Computer Security Conference, San Diego, Sept. 2005 Toorcon 7 Keynote: Operational Security: Rethinking Realty Keynote: How Hackers Get Caught Bastille Hardening Assessment Tool How Big is that Foot in the Door? Exploring Security Problems in Hardware: Past and Present Tor: Anonymous Communication for the Dept. of Defense and you BBS Documentary: Fidonet Episode (and others) SCAIDA Exposed Applied Data Profiling, Classification, and Analysis Methods and Lo-Fi Graphics Demos Ha...

alt="Indian Life at Mirror Lake, 1878. Watercolor by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming" width="582" height="375" border="0" />Indian Life at Mirror Lake, 1878. Watercolor by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (29.5'x19.25'). [Click to enlarge and for more images] The first art exhibit in Yosemite Valley was held in 1878 by Lady Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, a travel writer from a wealthy Scottish family.Lady Gordon-Cumming taught herself how to paint, and had help...

Customizing Solaris Security Toolkit The Solaris Security Toolkit provides a flexible way to harden a Solaris system, making it more secure from malicious attack. This software may be installed during a unattended Solaris JumpStart install, or installed after Solaris is installed and booted. Solaris Security Toolkit supports Solaris 8, 9, and 10 on SPARC and x86 systems. Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 can be used, but are not supported. One size does not fit all.The degree of...

Here's my wife, Helen Gunn, on the trail to Grinnell Glacier last summer, out of Many Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana. We liked it so much we're going back again. Usually the trail is dry, but there was a temporary waterfall on the way. The days before there were these wonderful, loud thunderstorms at night.Grinnell Glacier is melting away, due to global warming, but it's still huge. There's a giant part above a cliff and another below the cliff behind a glacier...

Toorcon 2004 Security Conference, San Diego, www.toorcon.org align="middle" border="0" /> Once again, I attended San Diego's annual hacker and Security Convention sponsored by a local hacker group. It's cheap ($60), tax-deductible, and convenient for me! (my time, my money). Disclaimers: These are my notes, so it has typos and isn't highly polished. I may have misinterpreted other people's words or ideas. Opinions here are not mine nor my employer. — Dan Here's the best of the...

I have some icons I converted or screen-scraped at http://dan.drydog.com/xicons/ Many or most of these are not public domain, so I would investigate their legal status if using for non-personal commercial use. Enjoy. Technorati Tag: solaris Technorati Tag: icons