Monthly Archives: May 2014

Bacula Windows Client Notes, and a synergy observation

Bacula Windows Client Hmm, apparently the bacula windows client is no longer provided for free. Fortunately the latest versions of the opensource (and free) windows client of sourceforge are still compatible with the latest linux bacula-director. Installing it was a … Continue reading

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Well at least I got to say good bye

That was needed, and thats the end of that. The day didn’t get much better. Got the root canal completed which was good. Driving home, they had closed state highway one, somebody had crashed. Eventually the opened it again. Stopped … Continue reading

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Blasted power companies, and useless power surge boards

Power cables in WN should be buried; not left to blow in the wind. Power surges on saturday causing all my servers to reboot. And a complete power outage for almost 2hrs on sunday night. The complete power outage caused … Continue reading

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Never believe what you read in the newspapers

Yesterday the stuff.co.nz website said there would be up to 140Kph winds today, and tomorrow even a chance of snow overnight on the rimutakas making them possible impassible. Even the metservice site indicated today and tomorrow would be windy. I … Continue reading

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Openshift looks more interesting

VM disk image for openshift-origin3 finally downloaded. Converted the supplied vmdk disk image to raw as the doco suggested (40Gb). Then converted it to qcow2 (less than 6Gb now) as I didn’t have 40Gb free on my test VM host … Continue reading

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Openshift looks interesting

Looking at PaaS. Passed on CloudFoundry as I do not want to install Ruby which seems to be needed to use that. So I am looking at OpenShift Origin instead. That works better for me as it’s Redhat oriented and … Continue reading

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Week in review, at home anyway

Got the Snort IDS running on this webserver. Also wrote a quick nagios plugin script to monitor it for me Also later installed snort onto my main VM host; theoretically alerts reported by my webserver guest instance should not reach … Continue reading

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Wellington Food Show 2014

Went to the food show at wellington westpac stadium. Went there on the last day and early to avoid the crowds. No such luck, it was already crowded by the time I got there. Impassible crowds at most of the … Continue reading

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Snort – open source intrusion detection system

As my only site protections at the moment (excluding firewall rules so tight they cause me problems sometimes) are apache rewrite rules to automatically add ip-addresses to iptables drop rules (if an http request is for a page only a … Continue reading

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Plumbing was all fixed on wednesday, yippee

They expected it to take four hours to fix as they had identified the blockage issue was over 1.5 meters under the grass. But they saved time by bringing a digger. Had it all fixed in around four hours. Which … Continue reading

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