Today we are going to be installing a funny package that allows you to telnet into a linux machine (we are going to be using debian) and gives you a funny reason.

First off we login to the debian machine we are going to use open a terminal window and gain root access. Then type the following command, make sure you have internet because it will be need to download this packages.

apt-get install openbsd-inetd fortunes-bofh-excuses

Then we are going to open the file /etc/inetd.conf in your favorite editor.

vi /etc/inetd.conf

And add the following line at the end of it.

excuse stream tcp nowait root /usr/games/fortune /usr/games/fortune

Then edit the file /etc/services and put in the line

excuse 666/tcp

Then run /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd start

Now if you run telnet yourserversip 666 your will get your excuse of the day.

Have fun…

Some links BOFH and some More BOFH

Here is a video I made of our puppies.

I was playing around with quartz composer in Mac OS X developer tools, and I decided to make a screen saver. At first I thought of making one for my blog, but then I realized that I might be the only one who is interested in having an RSS Screen Saver for my blog. After some pondering it came to be, what site to I know that have tons of mac funs? The MacCast of course. So I started editing and a couple of minutes later here we are.

A screen saver for the maccast.

Downloaded a total of 368 times

And a screensaver for my blog.

Downloaded a total of 276 times

I know everyone is doing this, so here is my list of Mac OS X Apps that I can’t live without.

• Quicksilver, to see more before you download it go to The Apple Blog Quicksilver Tutorials Round-Up article.
• Growl, system wide notifications. Fantastic. Especially with GrowlTunes.
• Mail with Mail Tags, tagging your e-mails.
• Firefox, probably the best browser ever.
• Adium X, a multi-protocol IM client.
• Skype, the best way to talk to your friends online.
• Cyberduck, a free ftp client.
• Video Lan / VLC, for all your video needs.
• Photoshop, because it’s photoshop.
• TextWrangler, for editing files.
• Transmission, for downloading torrents.
• Backup form apple, I don’t know what I would do without it.

That’s all for now.

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

   network.http.pipelining
   network.http.proxy.pipelining
   network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

   Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

   Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
   Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
   Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like “30″. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

Just wanted to say that after the changes on the CSS I notice that this site looks different on IE, so I am not going to make changes. As a result get over IE and use another browser like firefox

Ciao everybody, and good surfing…