Photos : 27/02/2010

Click ! by cdiaz on Zooomr



Water reflection by cdiaz on Zooomr



Creepy :) by cdiaz on Zooomr



City bokeh by cdiaz on Zooomr



Actually it's not so blue by cdiaz on Zooomr



Here I am by cdiaz on Zooomr



Move around 5 seconds by cdiaz on Zooomr



Bang ! by cdiaz on Zooomr



Bang bang ! by cdiaz on Zooomr



Templo de Debod by cdiaz on Zooomr

Photos : 2010/02/21

No photo has been cropped with magic-tools and so on, backgrounds are as they came out of the camera.



Bluer cave by cdiaz on Zooomr


Blue cave by cdiaz on Zooomr



Grey cave by cdiaz on Zooomr



Black cave by cdiaz on Zooomr



Orange corners by cdiaz on Zooomr



Detail by cdiaz on Zooomr



Fly, Swallow, fly ! by cdiaz on Zooomr



Light and shadow by cdiaz on Zooomr





And those are the set-ups. :)


Set-up by cdiaz on Zooomr



Set-up 2 by cdiaz on Zooomr

HOWTO: SSH tunnelling and securing traffic for networks with closed ports

On this howto I am going to show how to connect to any service at any port behind a router that restricts port access with a particular example: music streaming.

Situation:

We are behind a router that restricts some services (or any services) and we want, for instance, to access a service on port 3000 but the network does not allow us to do it (typical work/university situation).

Connection to service on port 3000 is restricted

We will need:

• A server with full Internet access that we control (say our Desktop PC at home)
• A running Linux distro on the server
• The will/nedd to connect to restricted services in another network.

The result:

Access to any service (port) we want on the Internet throught an encrypted connection on any OS (Linux, Windows...).

Now the firewall does not know what on this connection on port 80 :) -click to see a bigger version-

Home machine:

So let's start on our machine at home. We have first to install the SSH server, the package is usually called openssh. Once installed we can open the config file of the ssh daemon: "/etc/ssh/ssh_config" (the path may be different on your distro), it should look like this:

Host *

# ForwardAgent no

ForwardX11 yes

# RhostsRSAAuthentication no

# RSAAuthentication yes

# PasswordAuthentication yes

# HostbasedAuthentication no

# GSSAPIAuthentication no

# GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no

# BatchMode no

# CheckHostIP yes

# AddressFamily any

# ConnectTimeout 0

# StrictHostKeyChecking ask

# IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

# IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

# Port 22

Now, we suppose our evil-corporation network only allows connections to port 80 to surf the web so we are going to put the ssh server on port 80 to be sure we can connect to it, edit the file (as root) and change the line:

# Port 22

to

Port 80

Now the ssh server is ready to be run, you can leave the rest of the file as it is, we are not interested on the other features of ssh on this howto. So, open a terminal and, as root, run the sshd daemon:

root@mont-blanc ~ # sshd
sshd re-exec requires execution with an absolute path

OOPS, no worries there, we are going to find the path:

root@mont-blanc ~ # which sshd
/usr/sbin/sshd
root@mont-blanc ~ # /usr/sbin/sshd

Done ! Now our server is up and running on port 80.

All of our configuration at home is done, now put on a paper/e-mail, your public IP address and open (redirect) the port 80 on your router/firewall. You can retrieve your public IP on lot's of sites like this one, or this one.

Office/university/whatever machine:

Life is better on Linux, everybody knows that :), we are first going to see how to do it all under Linux.

First of all we are going to connect to our server at home, say for instance your home's IP is 80.90.100.110:

ssh -N -D 2929 -P 80 user@80.90.100.110

Type your password and you are done. Now a SOCKS proxy server is running on your local (office...) machine on port 2929.

-N will prevent a shell to be opened

-D stands for dynamic, which is dynamic port forwarding, every connection to the SOCKS proxy on this port will forward the port (3000 for instance) to our home server on this same port but, through the ssh link on 80.

-P the port of our ssh server

user is your username at home

Now we can configure our applications to use the SOCKS sever, for instance firefox can be set to use a SOCKS server in the preferences->advanced menu. There you must specify the localhost ip address 127.0.0.1 and on this case the port 2929.

Surf the web now, and access http://www.ip-adress.com/ you will see that your IP is the one you have at home.

Ok, but what about applications that have no options or preferences for a SOCKS host ?

proxychains comes to your rescue, download and install it (if you can't find a package for your distro, download the code and just run the usual ./configure , make and make install (as root).

Proxychains will allow us to run any application as if it was connected to the proxy we choose. How ? Proxychains connects to the proxy and when the application wants to connect to a host proxychains redirects the connection.

To configure it open "/etc/proxyhains.conf" and at the end of the file, remove any entry like:

socks4 127.0.0.1 9050

and substitute it by:

socks5 127.0.0.1 2929

Save and close. Now lets try it:

$ proxychains rhythmbox

|DNS-request| radio.hiof.no
|S-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:2929-<><>-4.2.2.2:53-<><>-OK
|DNS-response| radio.hiof.no is 158.39.172.209
|S-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:2929-<><>-158.39.172.209:8000-<><>-OK

On this example we opened rhythmbox with proxychains and requested to listen a radio on port 8000, peace of cake :) now the firewall doesn't know what the traffic going through the port 80 is, but allows it and we can connect to a streaming server on port 8000 which otherwise we wouldn't have been able to.

On Windows machines instead of ssh you can use putty like this:

putty -ssh -N -D 2929 -P 80 user@80.90.100.110

and sockscap instead of proxychains.

I hope you enjoyed this article, any comments, suggestions... please comment.

Johnny Cash - I Won't Back Down

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
 
Well I know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
No I won't back down. 

from Tom Petty's album Fool Moon Fever -1989-

Traurig (sad) by cdiaz on Zooomr
- gilles servat

Ryanair airports

[Versión en Castellano aquí]

Ever since Ryanair has become so popular lots of people are taking planes everywhere around Europe but not knowing exactly how far the destination airports are from the cities they want to visit.
Here is a handy guide to some of those airports Ryanair flights to. Those are the ones that have routes from Madrid.
The prices, taken from different sources (specified) are the cost of getting from the airport to the city with is as far as specified on the table. Links to wikipedia pages of the airport and its gMap are specified too.
I hope it is useful.

Airport	City / Place	IATA code	Web	Map	Distance	Price € One-way
Madrid Barajas	Madrid (Spain)	MAD			17 km	2-3 € SW
Alghero	Alghero (Sardinia)	AHO			11 km	1€ Bus 15€ Taxi
Alicante	Alicante (Spain)	ALC			12 km	2,60 €
Almería	Almería (Spain)	LEI			12 km	~1 €
Cagliari	Cagliari (Sardinia)	CAG			9 km	~1 €
Fez	Fez (Morocco)	FEZ			~10 km	? Bus 14€ Taxi
Frankfurt-Hahn	Frankfurt	HHN			124 km	12€ Bus more
Girona	Girona (Spain)	GRO			16km(Girona) 100km(Barcel.)	2,3€ Girona 12€ Barcel.
Gran Canaria	Canary Islands	LPA			25 km (Las Palmas)	1,2 € Bus
Granada	Granada	GRX			18 km	3 € Bus
Jerez	Jerez	XRY			13km(Jerez) 49 km(Cádiz)	0,85€ Jerez 2,60€ Cádiz
Lanzarote	Canary Islands	ACE			7 km (Arrecife)	1 €
Marrakech	Marrakech (Morocco)	RAK			3 km	~1,8 €
Milano(Bergamo)	Milano (Italy)	BGY			56 km	1,65 €
Nador	Nador (Morocco)	NDR			15 km	? € Taxi only
Porto	Porto (Portugal)	OPO			20 km	Subway
Palma de Mallorca	Balearic Islands	PMI			10 km	2 € Bus
Santander	Santander (Spain)	SDR			7 km	2 € Bus
Santiago de Compostela	Santiago (Spain)	SCQ			15 km	1,55 €
Tangier	Tangier (Morocco)	TNG			10 km	? € Bus 10 € Taxi
Tenerife South	Canary Islands	TFS			64 km	9 € Bus
Trapani	Sicily	TPS			20 km	8 € Bus Trapani
Torino-Caselle	Torino (Italy)	TRN			18 km	5,5 € Bus
Valencia	Valencia (Spain)	VLC			10 km	1,7 € Subway
Brussels Charleroi	Brussels (Belgium)	CRL			58 km	2,5 € Bus
Faro	Faro (Portugal)	FAO			8 km	< 5 €
Paris Beauvais	Paris (France, not Texas)	BVA			81 km	~15€ Bus
Roma Ciampino	Rome (Italy)	CIA			16 km	4 € Bus
Bologna	Bologna (Italy)	BLQ			13 km	5 € Bus ? € Siena
Dublin	Dublin (Ireland)	DUB			15 km	2 €
Eindhoven	Eindhoven (Netherlands)	EIN			9 km	1,8 € Bus
Marseille MP2	Marseille (France)	AHO			25 km	7 € Bus
Oslo Rygge	Oslo (Norway)	RYG			70 km	15 €
Fuerteventura	Canary Islands	FUE			7 km Pto del Rosario	1-8 €
London Gatwick	London (UK)	LGW			55 km	2+ €
London Stansted	London (UK)	STN			62 km	9 €
Malta	Malta	MLA			10 km Valetta	8 €
Pisa (Galileo Galilei)	Pisa (Italy)	PSA			4 km	1 €