The guys at the office, Peder1, Tobias and Morten have started a podcast called Podcastination.
Podcastination
It’s being hosted here, at josteinb.com/podcastination. Who knows, maybe I’ll have to chip in soon too.
It’s supposed to be a weekly event, with light entertainment. The podcast is in norwegian. The pilot is out now!
Edit: The podcast can now also be found at podcastination.josteinb.com
WordPress
Well, after using Joomla! for my blog since March, I got tired of it. Joomla is great for building large websites, but it was way too complicated for a simple blog like this. Also, it’s kind of strange that a open source project got next to no documentation. I had some problems migrating the articles from the Joomla database because of some charset errors from norwegian letters, but have imported the most important stuff now. Using WordPress is a whole different experience… so easy!
I guess I have to learn hacking WordPress themes now.
Halcyon
The Halcyon Eclipse is an amazing wing to dive with, but for us cold water divers with thick gloves, the little string on the dump valve is way too hard to get a grip on under water. It doesn’t come with any knobs or any other help for catching it, since that’s apparently violating the DIR philosophy. On top of that, my dump valve had so sharp edges it cut through the string after 20 or so dives.
The solution is very simple- you just need a dremel and a new, thicker string. The construct of the valve is very simple, only four parts in total. Plus the string.
Read more for instructions and photos
Ungdomskulen played a concert at Hulen this friday, and it was absolutely amazing. I was on duty as a photographer, and even though the lighting was challenging at best, there were a few shots I am happy about. I’m putting up a couple of photos here, the rest will be available at hulen.no‘s gallery shortly.
If you’re unfamiliar with Ungdomskulen, check out their myspace page and listen to their music.
ungdomskulen guitar player
ungdomskulen bass player
ungdomskulen drummer
Come back soon, guys!
At the final presentation of our XP-driven webshop project we ended up in a discussion about whether to catch runtime exceptions at the top-level or not. After having attended a talk by Kåre Nilsen at ROOTS 2009, called “Enterprise app without enterprise crap”, we took the stand that we did not want to catch the exceptions and rather try to fix them if they occured in stead of hiding what went wrong.
It turns out there is an anti-pattern that describes this dilemma, called the Diaper Pattern. -”Because it catches all the shit”.
Now what’s left to decide is whether this applies to web apps or not…
På torsdag fikk Peder 2 beskjed om at Denver Mini skulle spille konsert, og bassisten var borte. Så etter en øving var det konsert på fredag. Og Peder 1 fikk dokumentert litt av konserten:
16. Mai åpner fotoutstillingen til fotogruppa på Hulen på NG2!
14 flotte konsertbilder tatt på Hulen, som skal.. vel, henge til pynt så vi kan sitte og se på våre egne bilder og være stolte av oss selv.
Noen smakebiter:
Skambankt, Annah
© Alexander Øvrebø
Satyricon, foto © Helge Brekke
Black Debbath, foto © Anders Helgerud
Funin, foto © Jostein Bjørge
Ta dere en tur!
Spoofing your MAC-address in Snow Leopard
This might not be the most useful hack, but in some scenarios it might be good to know. And it does show those who believe that blacklisting MAC-addresses on their access point is a good security feature that they are mistaken.
For example the system they used at the college I lived in at the University of Newcastle, where you had to send in a paper form to register your mac-address to the ethernet outlet in your room, and weren’t able to use the internet on your laptop when visiting friends on the campus.
Be aware that using these commands to work around such a policy is probably illegal, though.
In snow leopard, spoofing your ethernet MAC-address is as easy as opening a terminal, and type sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
The address can of course be anything you want it to be.
For spoofing the address of your airport card you first have to disconnect from the network you are currently on, this can be done by clicking the airport-symbol in the menu bar, select join other network, type some random name, hit connect and then cancel. Now type
sudo ifconfig en1 lladdr aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
And then you can reconnect, with your new address.
Update:
Captain Future has created an applescript for spoofing the mac address that looks very nice. It can be found here. Thanks!