Posts Tagged “conquest”

8 Apr: Fool Me Once

For any­one who wants to han­dle dynamic DNS (either in con­junc­tion with DHCPd or not) with Bind and absolutely hates the ver­bosity of nsup­date, here’s a shell script which han­dles the common-cases of adding and removing:

Forward/reverse entries
CNAMEs

The com­mand line argu­ments are –k (privkey) –a (action) –h (host­name) –i (ipaddr) –c (cname) –d (debu­glevel) (-t ttl)

Usage:
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Tags: , , , , , , , 2007-04-08 11:36 3 Comments

2 Oct: Dying Democracy and Dehumanization

Last Wednesday night, I was call­ing friends to try and do a lit­tle street the­ater down­town Chicago, in the hopes of pro­vid­ing a par­tic­u­larly gritty infomer­cial and gen­er­at­ing pres­sure on the Senate to not pass S.3930 (aka the “Just Confess to Something Act of 2006″). It appears I wasn’t the only one with the same […]

Tags: , , , , , , , , 2006-10-02 11:12 3 Comments

20 Aug: Armed Madhouse

Yesterday, I read Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse. On the one hand, it’s nice to know that I intu­itively under­stood the neo-conservative inva­sion plan and rea­son  —  the so-called “Plan B”  —  well enough to describe it as “glob­al­iza­tion by force” in a paper I wrote for a Political Economy course. It’s also nice to know the vaunted-but-ignored State Department […]

Tags: , , , , , 2006-08-20 14:33 2 Comments

4 Mar: Feel The Power

So accord­ing to the peo­ple at Protein Wisdom, the rea­son the U.S. is los­ing the war in Iraq (iron­i­cally enough the same peo­ple said the U.S. was win­ning until a fel­low con­ser­v­a­tive clued them in to the fact it wasn’t) is the anti-war pro­test­ers. Aside from the obvi­ous “stab-in-the-back” par­al­lels, there’s a more con­struc­tive interpretation […]

Tags: , , , 2006-03-04 21:31 3 Comments