Alan McCloskey, Author at OCmodshop.com

Finally imported banished IPs

Alan McCloskeyApr 10, 2009August 25, 20140

There is certain traffic that I don’t want to be able to see any of my websites. There are certain countries (which will remain nameless)

Linux Firewall Part 2: Determine Your Network Setup

Alan McCloskeyApr 9, 2009November 28, 20146

Many firewalls make certain assumptions and use several standard conventions. Understand the standard terminologies and you’ll have an easier time when setting up your firewall.

Extraterrestrial Bike-Reflector Dance Party 2003

Alan McCloskeyApr 9, 2009August 25, 20140

I was going through some of my old articles, and sometimes I don’t even remember writing certain stuff. It’s like that part of my life

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Review

Alan McCloskeyApr 8, 2009July 4, 20142

It has been five years since we saw Riddick shredding up enemies in 2004’s “Escape from Butcher Bay”. That game was a runaway hit that came out

Riddick in the Hizzouze

Alan McCloskeyApr 8, 2009November 28, 20140

So, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena came in today. The PR firm sent it out as soon as the game was released,

Digg thinks EVERYTHING is a similar post

Alan McCloskeyApr 7, 2009November 28, 20140

So, one of the things I do to promote the articles on OCmodshop is to post an announcement onto Digg, as well as several other

Building a Linux Firewall Part 1: Why?

Alan McCloskeyApr 6, 2009November 28, 20143

There’s no doubt that the internet today is more powerful than ever… and great power demands great responsibility. There are threats everywhere that you need to

Vista no likey Blu-ray

Alan McCloskeyApr 6, 2009November 28, 20147

I’ve written in previous posts that I finally procured a Blu-ray burner for the OCMS Labs. The drives have come way down in price, but

Linux Firewall Part 4: Installation

Alan McCloskeyApr 3, 2009June 24, 20145

For the purposes of this turotial, I am making several assumptions. I am assuming that your green network is 192.168.1.x and your orange network is

Full-size photos not working on WordPress with IIS7

Alan McCloskeyApr 3, 2009June 24, 20141

I thought I had all the weird caveats figured out when hosting WordPress on IIS7. It looks like there’s another one. Apparently by default you

Availability of Blu-ray Media

Alan McCloskeyApr 2, 2009November 28, 20142

So, I’ve finally secured a Blu-ray drive for the OCMS labs. Now the only thing is to get hordes of BD-R media, so I ventured

I took out an ad on the bus

Alan McCloskeyApr 1, 2009August 25, 20140

I was presented with a pretty good deal lately. In exchange for donating some of the leftover lab computers, I was given free advertising on

The lights went out in OCMS

Alan McCloskeyMar 31, 2009August 25, 20140

My wife just informed me that the electricity went out on the block… but she was still able to IM me… meaning that the UPS

Bigfoot Xeno Network Card First Look

Alan McCloskeyMar 29, 2009November 28, 20140

Every person on the internet has experienced lag… the feeling of frustration while waiting for something online. It’s not that big a deal when waiting