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Perl interface to processing / querying NIST’s NVD feed
For a work project, I wrote a library in perl that can be used to query the NVD feed that NIST publishes here: http://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm Here’s a snippit from the perldoc: use NIST::NVD::Query; # use convert_nvdcve to generate these files from the XML dumps at # http://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm my( $path_to_db, $path_to_idx_cpe ) = @ARGV; my $q =…
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xend xml parsing failure – solution
I got this error when starting xend after a filesystem crash: [2011-12-09 11:05:04 5590] ERROR (SrvDaemon:349) Exception starting xend (not well-formed (invalid token): line 3, column 0) It sounded like an XML parsing error, but the stack trace in the log didn’t say which file it had loaded. It turns out that it was trying…
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Bitcoin WoT using PGP/SKS
There was recently a post to the sks list prompting discussion regarding the use of PGP and SKS as a distributed web of trust for an alternative currency system called “Bitcoin.” This reminds me of a project I worked on in the early ’00s with the late Jeff Fairhall and Thomas Greco. Anyhow, I mumbled…
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And with that, the keyserver is back online
http://keyserver.colliertech.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xBA27A83C&op=vindex Go go gadget interwebs. Now to sync back up and get into good standings on the status page.
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Business Birthday
Today is Collier Technologies, LLC’s second birthday. The company’s been around under one name or another since about 2002 or so, initially as a sole proprietorship. Woot, and all that.
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F5 opens second International Technology Center in London
Very cool. Presided over by my friend and the VP of our group, Erik Giesa. Notably lacking is the inclusion of a picture of Steve Mitchell’s smiling face. The first of our ITCs is here in Seattle. We’ve got some space on our internet site dedicated to them: http://www.f5.com/solutions/resources/technology-center/
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Blogging is a pain in my a$$
The good news is that the blog has been on its best behavior and is now allowed out of my basement. If it starts misbehaving, I’ll put it back in its cage.
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Load balancing SIP across Asterisk with BIG-IP
Topology Participating hosts * 1x BIG-IP VE * 1x Debian Squeeze “Provisioning Server” serving DHCP, TFTP & DNS * 3x Nortel/Avaya 1120E hard phones flashed to SIP1120e04.01.13.00 * 2x Debian Squeeze + digium asterisk packages: $ grep asterisk /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://packages.asterisk.org/deb squeeze main deb-src http://packages.asterisk.org/deb squeeze main DUNDi *CLI> module reload pbx_dundi.so *CLI> dundi show…
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SJCARS blog
The San Juan County Amateur Radio Society (SJCARS) has created a blog. I’m excited. http://sjcars.wordpress.com/
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Rokey-Tobu
This maneuver consisted of holding someone’s hand and patting it while assuring them that someone who has experience responding to emergencies would be there soon.