Monthly Archives: February 2014
New Toy to play with
I have absolutely no real use for a 3G portable wireless network router. So I went out and got one. A vodaphone pre-pay wifi router, just a smallish one that only allows five connections, even though I only need one … Continue reading
MVS S/370 Assembler can be a pain
Fighting my way through a 600 line block of code at the moment. It is S0C4 abending for no meaningfull or sensible reason. Insert a WTO 100s of lines above where it abends and it runs, remove the WTO line … Continue reading
A wasted evening, disk encryption is a pain
Been quite a few burglaries this way, every single machine I have apart from the webserver (which must start without human intervention) and my main desktop have encrypted disks; so I thought it was time to encrypt the home folder … Continue reading
Installing ownCloud on a Fedora webserver
Whats ownCloud then ? ownCloud is an opensource equivalent to DropBox, it provides a way of keeping all folders and files under a monitored directory in syncronisation across multiple machines, the main difference being that it is your server controlling … Continue reading
Valentines Day, ho-hum
* LUKS encrypted the external portable disk I carry around in the laptop bag * Updated my laptop to all the latest patches (linux and win7 partitions) * Updated my kickstart and VM servers to the latest patches * Updated … Continue reading
I think I have stressed my poor car
Got bored on tuesday and took it for a little spin, not far, it was under 400Km for the round trip. Around 300Km into the trip there started to be a really load annoying whining sound. It’s not from the … Continue reading
Realtec TP-LINK TL-WN725N on linux and windowz
This is my personal evaluation of the device. This device is a USB connected wireless router, about the size of a thumbnail, including the USB connector. Security supported is only WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK; so I’m not even sure … Continue reading
Lots of probs with an upgrade to fc20, mostly sorted now
First an upgrade of a desktop with 6Gb of memory from fc19 to fc20 worked with no problems in around 3hrs, and came up cleanly (there is still the outstanding issue with encrypted disks if you don’t reply to the … Continue reading
WordPress, why does it need internet access ?.
WordPress runs like a dog without internet access. I had powered off my network routers, as I’m nice to other internet users and didn’t want my internal host discovery/penetration testing etc to spill outside my own network… and wordpress just … Continue reading