http://www.skeptech.org/ 2012-05-19T06:07:35-05:00 http://www.skeptech.org/ http://www.skeptech.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-08-09T23:31:18-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=openbsdrouters&rev=1281414678&do=diff These are some notes I've jotted down on using OpenBSD routers in high-traffic production environments. It's not as straightforward as you probably think it is. PF has upper-level limits on stuff PF is a kernel process, and so will not automatically allocate RAM for itself. As such, it has several important hard-limited memory buffers you should increase if you're going to run BSD in a production environment. If you hit any of these limits, PF will either crash, drop packets, or hand out 'no… text/html 2010-05-02T23:12:18-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=photography&rev=1272859938&do=diff Photography This is a landing page for hobby #1432 (photography). I'm admittedly not much of a photographer, but if you use Linux, or some other free Unix, and you're trying to figure out some workflow, or decide on tools, then something herein might help. text/html 2010-04-30T10:59:24-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1272643164&do=diff * About * Code * Published Stuff * Photography text/html 2010-01-30T14:46:41-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=code&rev=1264884401&do=diff Code I've written quite a lot of code, but I'm loathe to share any of it because I find it embarrassing. It's like letting you see my underpants, sure they're very nice underpants, but at the same time they give you insight that I'd rather you didn't have (if it's all the same to you). So the code that appears herein is the stuff that I've found SO useful I couldn't help but share it. text/html 2010-01-05T23:16:49-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=faldentify:markings&rev=1262755009&do=diff Fal Markings Page A growing catalog of the various stamps and markings on Fal parts. Enjoy. Upper Receiver Markings In no particular order [faldentify:fn_fal] text/html 2010-01-04T17:04:46-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=falfiles:ban&rev=1262646286&do=diff A short history of the import ban as it relates to FAL's Shamelessly stolen from wikipedia: During the late 1980s and 1990s, many countries decommissioned the FAL from their armories and sold them to United States importers as surplus. The rifles were imported to the United States as fully-automatic guns. Once in the U.S., the FAL's were “de-militarized” (upper receiver destroyed) to eliminate the rifles' character as an automatic rifle, as stipulated by the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA 68 cur… text/html 2010-01-04T16:46:56-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=faldentify:implementations&rev=1262645216&do=diff Fal Implementations You're probably here because you've either bought a fal-like rifle or are thinking about doing so and would like to know more about what it is exactly that you're looking at. Well that's pretty much the purpose of this page, and since I'm interested in helping you identify the rifle you're holding, I'm going to focus on the rifles that normal people can actually buy in the US today, as well as those that were imported before the import ban for sale to civilians in the US. I… text/html 2010-01-04T16:40:31-05:00 dave josephsen http://www.skeptech.org/doku.php?id=faldentify&rev=1262644831&do=diff Faldentify The pages in this context are an attempt to coalesce myriad notes I've collected on the subject of identifying various clones of the FN-FAL main battle rifle. Rifle Implementations Index Click here for a landing page that lists various implementations of the FN-Fal and gives helpful details and identification characteristics about each.