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Monthly Archives December 2007

Holiday hobbies

When I’m on holiday I have time and will to do things I’m usually too tired/nervous/lazy to do on normal days. These include: Go on with reading “Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” (I got it one year ago and I read only half of it ATM.) Go for a walk downtown and take [...]

Posted on 20 December 2007 † Matteo § Misc § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (3) °

Exams never end. False, at least relatively

Today I gave the final of Probability and Computing with Prof. Upfal and I’m officially on holyday until…well, the 26th, because I have another exam on January 11th and discrete algebra is all but easy to study….. At least I can sleep longer.. Original uploaded by: Rionda (me)

Posted on 19 December 2007 † Matteo § Photos § University ‡ Comments (0) °

ftpd(8) + PF + ftp-proxy on the same host

Eventually I managed to make ftpd, PF and ftp-proxy work on the same machine with one network interface. My /etc/rc.conf: [...] pf_enable=”YES” pflog_enable=”YES” ftpd_enable=”YES” # Enable stand-alone ftpd. ftpd_flags=”-46Dl” ftpproxy_enable=”YES” ftpproxy_flags=”-R 127.0.0.1″ [...] My /etc/pf.conf: [...] #nat section nat-anchor “ftp-proxy/*” rdr-anchor “ftp-proxy/*” rdr pass on $if proto tcp from any to $if port 9021 -> [...]

Posted on 08 December 2007 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (2) °

Playing with the shutter release and with the eyes

After some time, I took out my camera again and played with an old tripod and the macro setting.      The last one is a present from my father, a tribute to Hugo Pratt, the author of many beautiful illustrated novels (Corto Maltese and others). Oh, by the way, I have exams today and [...]

Posted on 05 December 2007 † Matteo § Personal § Photos § University ‡ Comments (0) °