Diogo Gomes Blog

Well, what can I say…

The old theme was hanging in this site since almost it’s beginning as a temporary theme till I got something done. That day arrived today (or tonight) when with the help of my wife I costumized WP-Andreas01 theme.

Hope everyone likes it!

PS: anyone browsing the blog using an iPhone/iPod Touch will get a surprise

Nunca é de mais relembrar a realização do DebianDayPT2008 que se realiza já no próximo dia 16 de Agosto (para os mais distraídos é daqui a menos de um mês) na Universidade de Aveiro e conta com a colaboração do GLUA.

O Encontro é feito de entusiastas Debian mas não só uma vez que está aberto a comunidade em geral.

É ainda de referir que este evento marca o 15º aniversário desta distribuição do GNU/Linux.

Para mais informações consultem o site do evento e não se esqueçam de registar para o evento.

Squid is the defacto proxy system. Either in the lab or at home I use a transparent squid proxy in order to have a global cache system for all my devices (I really hate browser caches that take all you disk space).

For years now, in order to configure a transparent Squid proxy you had to put in the following lines:

httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on

plus the complimentary iptables rules in your router:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ethLAN -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination SquidProxy:3128
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ethWAN -p tcp -m tcp –dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128

But Squid 2.6, which comes in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) no longer supports these and the former 4 lines can be substituted by:

http_port 3128 transparent

Today I was driven to an article on time.com about wifi thieves. Point being on the ethics of using someone else’s wifi network.

I shall not make any comment on the subject, but instead leave you with some food for your mind:

“How many times have you stolen network connectivity, while feeling morally guilty?”

Again:

“How many times have you felt the same while stealing power from nearby power-plugs?”

moules frites,
originally uploaded by helsinki51.

Just got back from brussels where I attended the final review of the C-Mobile project.

It was not my first time in brussels, nonetheless it was the first time I enjoyed the traditional “moules et frites”. Very nice I must say soo