Monthly Archives: December 2019

Obtaining ethernet interface statistics under linux

The power surges and power outages hitting titahi bay in the last week adversely affected my main desktops ethernet card, all network connectivity died and th ethernet port status light became red instead of green. Swapped out the network switch … Continue reading

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An update on my conversion from Fedora30 to CentOS7; Bugzilla

As mentioned in my earlier post on

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Off on a tangent again, WebAssembly

WebAssembly is now has official specifications published by W3C. Highlighted by this article on the register site. WebAssembly is a standard developed by the W3C WebAssembly Working Group. Today all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, mobile browsers) and Node.js … Continue reading

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An alternative to git, fossil a quick review

First a disclaimer, after reviewing fossil I will be remaining with git as my source control system. From a command line perspective it provides no benefits to me over git and while it can sync changes made in fossil to … Continue reading

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Using “screen” on Linux

The screen utility is available on most Linux systems, including Fedora, CentOS and RedHat. The history of screen is that it was an essential tool in the old days of dial-up access to servers, terminal sessions running under screen could … Continue reading

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Hackers, PCs of infected users, or researchers ?

There is an annoying amount of rubbish traffic to my website and below is a selected (grep’ed) portion of it. The documentation URL logged describes the masscan tool as similar to nmap, its purpose is to find open ports on … Continue reading

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