The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending my spare time playing with the Coova AP (ChilliSpot) wireless hotspot service on a WRT54GL. The main problem I’ve had with it is the portal pages not looking so good on mobile devices (particularly iPhone and Androids). A little bit of Googling revealed a solution (at […]
Continue ReadingTwo blogs in one weekend. Impressive for me! I’ve made a lot of progress with the Cloud-Bible project (the name is growing on me, slowly). Switching from the simpler-to-follow (but very assuming) big “switch” clause which was previously handling reverse-engineered tags (oh, I didn’t mention the XML I have is not precise OSIS format did […]
Continue ReadingI’ve for a long time enjoyed using e-Sword. It’s a superbly well built package which runs on Microsoft Windows (and partially under Wine on Linux) … which is where I see the downfall. The advantages to sticking with one platform are obvious – speed, usability, feature range, you name it. But that’s just it. You’re […]
Continue ReadingRegarding safe hex, on Linux – a topic at work today: “A wise man once said to me, ‘The root account, you should not be.’ Alas my pride, for great it was, ‘I shall be root, just because!’ Rename this, move off that, Getting rid of some old tat. Then, behold! A stray forward-slash… My […]
Continue ReadingThe last 3 days of my life have been spent wallowing in the deep grave of mud and syrup which is (drum-roll please) “Security Metrics’ PCI-DSS Vulnerability Scanner“. I could rant for 3 pages, oh I really could. I admin a half-dosen of Linux boxes (shortly to be replaced with quite a few more) – […]
Continue ReadingDisclaimer: I’m certainly no expert in the area of data recovery, and I will not take any responsibility for damage of you, your or anyone else’s hardware/data caused by following these ideas. This entry is nothing more than a diary of what I did for my and other people’s future interest or reference. Recently I […]
Continue ReadingThere are plenty of HOWTOs on so called NIC teaming or NIC bonding for Debian, but of the ones I’ve seen, they’ve all missed some rather important bits. Below is the method I personally found to work reliably: apt-get install ifenslave echo "bonding" >> /etc/modules modprobe bonding ifdown eth0apt-get install ifenslave echo "bonding" >> /etc/modules […]
Continue Reading[EDIT: Hey guys, thanks for the feedback! Someone over at virtuallyhyper.com has an awesome write up that deals with SD cards specifically (but is highly relevant to hard drives too), with a set of much improved and updated scripts. I’d strongly recommend taking a look … Recover files from an SD card using Linux utilities] […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re responsible for one or more Linux servers, (they provide packages for Linux distributions only, but it may be easily ported to other Unixes) you may be interested in the lesser known tool MondoRescue. It’s essentially nothing more (but it is a lot!) than a front end to several other GPL’ed tools, including BZip, […]
Continue Readingposix_setgid only sets the primary group for the process. So make sure the group permissions you’re relying is a single group, who’s GID is set in /etc/passwd. Took me over an hour to trace that bug down today.
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