sheepy.org - sheepy goings on...

Just found a few scripts that look like they will make the process of ripping a DVD somewhat easier (for backup purposes of course!)

• undvd
• dvd2mkv

  Although the 2nd one rips to Matroska format which can play on your phone :)

Might have actually found a theme I like for gvim :)

http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/

There are a number of tools sysadmins should be looking at in order to make their life less hellish when it comes to configuration management.

Some tools that I have found so far are:

• cfengine
• Puppet
• Bcfg2

After a recent phishing scam, which resulted in someone gaining over 55,000 passwords for my space, someone has posted some analysis on the passwords.

See the results here

Upgrading my kernel to 2.6.18 appears to have fixed the issue I was having with aircrack.

Now just need to write a script to make things a bit easier.