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Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
You've reached the home page of Mark Foster <mark@foster.cc>
Occupation
I work for BitPusher, LLC as a Sr. System Engineer. My resume is online if you care to see it, but please don't bug me about employment as I'm quite happy there.
I also run Credentia which focuses on technical services and consulting, particularly in the areas of SSL/TLS and DNS.
Personal
I live in Shoreline, Washington (USA), which is just north of Seattle, with my wife and two children.
Activities
In my meager spare time I am usually engaged in one of the following activities:
Affiliations
Here are some of the organizations, user groups and people that I am affiliated with or just admire.
Tips and "Howtos"
Here are some technical tips and howtos I have written to share the knowledge.
Much more can be seen at the ConchShell wiki, though.
Projects & Code
- Try out my OGG to MP3 Converter (BETA) - feedback welcome!
- Scavenge is a perl script that will discover and check DNS records (forward A and reverse PTR) to assist in zone cleanup.
Requires nmap and Net::DNS. [added 2005-04-18]
- myupdate - a script to automatically update your FreeBSD system sources and make world if UPDATING has changed. Run it from cron daily.[added 2005-04-06]
- ccTLD DNS Name Server Status[2003-10-20]
- Tree Fort - or "what I did this summer" [2003-07/30]
- email_pass.cgi - LDAP utility script to send users their forgotten password.
Requires Perl, Net::LDAP and Mail-tools modules.
- bha -"blackhole apache" - blackhole-route rogue hosts asking for suspicious files eg. Code-Red (shell script, BSD systems).
- snare - [updated 2003-03/05]
- cdrip - based on cd2mp3, this useful perl script will create OGG format (digital music) files from your CD...one track or all.
- qpurge - a perl script to clean up a (sendmail) mail queue
by using regular expression matching on the mail headers. For example:
./qpurge "To: <freeporn.*@itek.de>"
- Java applications
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