Stephen Reese

How-to setup an Upside-Down-Ternet

In an effort to replicate the amusing idea of a transparent proxy that manipulates traffic in a fun way found here and made even better with some great scripts that you can pull down from here. A Debian box was stood up with two network cards; one connects to the …

Setting Google Storage object ACL for authenticated downloads

Google’s gsutil is a great tool for pushing, retrieving and setting permissions on objects uploaded to Google Storage. I was reviewing the documentation on the Sharing and Collaboration page, specifically the Authenticated Browser Download section and realized there were a couple of small mistakes, err typos. I wanted to …

Pseudo Gmail address obfuscation

I was hunting around for a way to create email aliases for mailing-lists and whatnot. It is a little disappointing to learn that there is not away to create true aliases with Google’s Gmail. You can create aliases if using Google’s hosted application service but I do not …

Trouble accessing Gmail or internal chat client

I have been in a couple of places which I needed to access my email and chat so here is a little fix to get around DNS fixes that redirect hosts to the localhost. Modify your hosts file to look like the following: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 127 …

Facebook gets linked account support

Now you can logon to your Facebook account through several providers such as Google, Myspace and OpenId which IMO is great (I’m lazy). Just go to Settings, Account Settings and Linked Accounts. You can even pick multiple providers. One cool part is my openID provider VeriSign can be setup …

Domain registrars spamming sub-domains?

In the process of setting up some virtual servers (slices) from www.slicehost.com I had to move the name servers around along with a migration to Google web apps. A user called complaining that they could not access the web-mail service. The user was trying to access www.mail …

Courier Vacation Notice

cc "| /usr/lib/courier/bin/mailbot -t autoresponse -s 'AutoAwayMessage' -A 'From: test@somedomain.com' /usr/sbin/sendmail -f ''"cc "!user@somedomain.edu"cc "./Maildir" EXITCODE = 0 exit


Copyrighted Music and Movies

Ever since the Napster rise and fall there has been an on going debate in regards to copyrighted material being shared across networks with peer to peer (P2P) applications and popular social networking websites. I know from my school and work that technology exists that may analyze network traffic and …

What is Web 2.0

An article describing the slow migration to what some call Web 2.0