I’ve been dealing with some personal stuff, which is keeping me from posting about OpenAFS and the difficulty I’ve had finding working documentation that covers setting it up with Kerberos5 (not Krb4), and works on CentOS. More on both soon.
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I’ve been spending a lot of time recently sitting on our Comfy Chair, snoozing baby in lap, playing games. This isn’t like me. I’m not a gamer, and never really have been, other than a brief diversion with the Halo series of console games a couple of years ago, and an excursion into EVE Online before I was married. I find that when I have free time, I’d rather be hacking on code or reading epic length fiction.
Sadly, when sitting in the chair all the time, I don’t have long stretches of time available to me. Either the child will wake up and need something, someone else in the house will need me to do something, or I’ll fall asleep. So I’ve been using the iPad a lot more recently and playing Bejeweled or Words With Friends, or digging into browser based games like Ikariam. I’ve even toyed with playing online card games (trying my hand at poker again, in preparation for a resurgence of the ill-fated Poker Nights in my past).
Anyway, I’m looking for suggestions of other games to play – ideally with some sort of social interaction, as I’m not getting a lot of that these days.
I’ve noticed something interesting and stupid about coffee shop firewalls. They are configured to disallow a lot of handy IPv4 traffic, like SSH, while still allowing through web traffic, DNS, kerberos, OpenAFS, etc. However, they don’t appear to have any blocks in place for IPv6 ssh traffic. How do I know?
bwdezend@harbinger:[~] $ ssh6 bwdezend@redacted.hostname.icloud.com
Last login: Fri Jan 13 11:17:13 2012 from fdae:1e00:5731:17c9:c62c:3ff:fe0e:286d
bwdezend@godzilla:[~] $
Handy trick, until they start deploying IPv6 aware firewall devices (or blocking IPv6 totally, which would be a bad, bad thing).
I have racked the cider from the primary to my secondary fermenter, and everything went well. I took a little cider out to sample, and while it’s a little harsher than the first batch due to it’s relative youth, it’s a bit sweeter, and already slightly carbonated. I’m going to have to be careful about how and when I bottle – I think I’m going to let it sit with it’s airlock in the secondary for at least three weeks before I bottle.
I did have one major screw-up, though. After I’d racked the cider, I went to clean the Better Bottle I used as a primary vessel – and I forgot the water in the pot was very hot. Not boiling, but hot. And I poured about a gallon of water into the bottle. It instantly started to deform. Doing some looking, I’ve not destroyed a $30 Better Bottle, but it’s going to look ugly for the rest of time. I’m just going to chalk it up to another lesson learned in my journey.
Looks like I’m well past cider-making season, and yet, I put my next batch in to brew on the 3rd of January. It’s a lot easier the second time around, as you know more or less what you are doing, and aren’t stopping to ask Google questions every time you walk back into the room. When do I sanitize? When do I clean? Really, taking the airlock out means cleaning it again? Is Star-San a no-rinse solution? How do I increase alcohol content?
The airlock, at work
So the second time is easier, but in a way, a lot harder: for the first batch, I had gone to Asheville, NC, during apple season, and gotten two gallons of pure, unfiltered, unpasteurized apple cider. $10 a gallon. This time, pure cider is effectively unobtainable. So, I went to the local grocery store and picked up two gallons of “All natural” cider – the only one I could find that only listed Apple Juice as an ingredient. Yes, it’s pasteurized, but it doesn’t have sulfates added for stabilization, it doesn’t have color added, etc. It’s just juice.
So, it’s in the primary. Two weeks or so to go until it’s ready to rack over. I think I’ll try making beer next.
