Geek: Home network hax0ring..

Mum has an iBook home from work this weekend.. mm ibook.. but it's a 14 inch one, so it's big and heavy, but has like.. 6 hour battery life ;) Since it's a loan one tho, she doesn't have the admin password for it.. and it has it's IP and proxy settings locked into it..

Feeling respectful for my fellow UWA IT support people, I didn't root it.. I enabled my home network to pretend to be the UWA med-dent network.. I set up a virtual interface spewing out 130.95.162.1, which the ibook happily talked to.. but the proxy was locked in.. so it couldn't browse the web.. so on my trusty linux box, I set up a transparent proxy to redirect all requests for the UWA proxy to the arachnet proxy, so that all works too :D w00t ;p

Ok, minorly geeky ;P At work I also finally finished connecting a lab of machines to the network, and that is all good, tested the install of some software for one group (Altera MaxPlus II, Leonardo and Modelsim), fixed something to get Mentor graphics working for someone else... accepted 6 computers for another research group.. setup some patches for student laptops etc. Nothing too interesting really ;p Oh, and they were kind enough to switch off our aircon this morning for 4 hours at work to do some work on it, without telling us.. so my office was about 29C for a few hours. Not Happy Jan! I mainly did work in our south building which was still ok, and hassled grahame at UCS about some stuff.

Got tomorrow off for our equivalent of memorial day. w00t.