Archive for August, 2009

Tamborine Crown



Tamborine Crown, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

We went to the RenFest yesterday to enjoy pirate sea chanteys, beer and turkey legs. Cartney had a great time in his hand-made costume. He was banging his tamborine to the music and alternately trying to wear it as a crown.


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Horton Hears a What What

Horton the elephant lives in the ghetto.


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11 PM Music: Franz Ferdinand – “Ulysses”

Been a fan of these guys for a while and they just keep getting better.


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Oh No! Not Again!



kennedyfuneral, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

Tragedy struck today in an ironic twist of fate when the Hearse containing the deceased body of Senator Edward Kennedy plunged off a narrow bridge near Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts.

The driver, 36 Year Old Hector Hernandez, a recent immigrant to this country, was trapped in the vehicle and drowned. The Hearse was part of a funeral procession for Kennedy as it passed points in Massachusetts that were special to the Senator’s life.

The grieving Kennedy family, saddened by the death of the citizenship-challenged Latino, were relieved when the flag-draped casket containing the Senator’s body bobbed to the surface of the water. The body was recovered and the burial at Arlington National Cemetery will continue as planned.


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How to Bypass Network Filters With an SSH Tunnel

Can’t get to Facebook or your other favorite sites on the Internet from work because the network admins are blocking you with a proxy? You might be able to get around these restrictions by implementing an SSH tunnel.

An SSH tunnel will keep your connection secure, protect your passwords and bypass any restrictions on the sites you visit.

Here’s how you do it.

  • Step 1: Get an SSH account on an external webserver. Many web hosting companies will also allow you to have an SSH account in addition to your web hosting access. Usually this is free or just a few bucks more per month.
  • Step 2:  Get Putty from here.  Putty is a great SSH and Telnet client.  It is also the software that allows for a local computer like yours to tunnel connections to your SSH server.
  • Step 3:  Configure Your Tunnel.  Once Putty is installed, you need to configure your connection to your SSH server.  Type in the hostname of your SSH server or your server’s IP address.  Then, in the left, expand the SSH tree and click on Tunnels.  Click the Dynamic radio button and put 80 in the Source port box like this:

    Then click on add.  D80 should now be listed in the Forwarded ports box.  Now click back on Session at the top of the tree and give this session a name and click save.  Now open the session and login to your SSH server.

  • Step 4:  Configure Your Browser.  Every web browser has the capability to use a proxy.  What you want to do is configure your browser to use your own machine as a SOCKS proxy.  With Firefox, you do this by clicking on Tools, then Options.  Click the Network Tab and then click the settings button.  You should see this screen:

    Click the Manual Proxy Configuration button.  For SOCKS Host, type in localhost and set the port to 80.  Make sure the SOCKS v5 button is checked too.  Then click OK and you are done.  You should now have a working tunnel.

To test whether the tunnel is working, go to a site such as WhatismyIP.com.  The IP address displayed at the top of that page should be the IP of your SSH server, not your corporate firewall or company proxy server.

If this does not work, it may be due to restricted SSH outbound access in your organization, or there is a local workstation controlset that prohibits you from changing your proxy settings.  And remember, if you do this, you may be violating corporate policy, which could get you fired, so use at your own risk.


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Five Pillars of Cyber Security



Five Pillars of Cyber Security, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

Heading back from GFIRST today. On the way out I snapped this pic of the DHS poster depicting the session tracks. It shows the five pillars of cyber security which is a play on the five pillars of Islam. I wonder how long it will take for Muslims to get outraged over this?


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Where They Manufacture News



Where They Manufacture News, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

This is the escalator to news heaven at the CNN center in Atlanta. Not sure why entering through a big globe is a requirement. There is a food court below so the place smells like cheese fries and Nancy Grace.


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Heading to Hot-Lanta



Hot-Lanta, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

Going down to Atlanta for the next few days to attend the G-FIRST conference. The conference is sponsored by Department of Homeland Security and is aimed at cyber security first responders and incident handlers. I don’t know how much opportunity I will have to blog so feel free to peruse the archives.


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