I would like to take some time to talk about security and all those little packets going to your servers. I am sure that you are familiar with Snort which has been around for years to help you being made aware of attacks on your servers. Another initiatve was actually created a few years back […]

If like me you’ve been tampering with your device a fair bit, chances are you’ll need to use some of these. I found the following so far. Use these at your own risk. – Access the GPS menu: *#*#3214789650#*#* then go to SUPL / CP Settings and select FQDN Type / AUTO Config. – EMEI: […]

I posted last week about my introduction in the Cyanogen world. It has been a week and I am a happy camper, releases are quite frequent, they add new radio files to fix reception issues and battery life problems, and they even allow you to build your own. I think I can honestly say that […]

Last week, I had a chat with a few friends about phone ROMs, the consensus was fairly clear, stock ROMs really suck. I have had my phone since late June 2010 on android 2.1 back then (awful release), then 2.2.1 in December 2010 and tried 2.3.2 leaked from Samsung in March 2011. I got fed […]

I am almost sure i mentioned that somewhere on the internet before but I cannot for the life of me find any reference on any of my sites. So, I thought I’d do a quick entry here. If like me you spend many hours on your computer, you know all about eyes tireness. Well all […]

Lately I discovered that my DNSSEC resolvers where not enabled right. I took a look at the big internet and found a solution fairly quickly. So in short, if you want to use it, edit your named.conf.options (or equivalent, I use Debian, YMMV) then add (note: managed-keys is for Bind 9.7 or above, for previous […]

Thanks to iMil I recently discovered about Fabric. Fabric is a powerful python utility allowing you to manage plenty of machines across your LAN. I started experimenting on a few boxes, Debian and CentOS based at the moment, so here’s the dependencies just in case you need them.Debian: apt-get install python-setuptools python-crypto CentOS: yum install […]

My friend Sean recently convinced me to purchase a small appliance build by a company which has been around for quite some time : Mikrotik. What motivated me to purchase the 450G was the fact that having recently upgraded to a 30Mb service, my beloved Soekris 4801 could not cut it anymore. I saturated it […]

Here is a link pasted to me by a friend about some cool stuff to do with /proc, i liked it so much, decided to put it here to make sure I remember about it 🙂 http://goo.gl/OmzSM

I am slowly catching on some lists on my mail account and found an interesting post to check the status of a Dell PowerEdge Perc RAID card, here’s the post. I recommend taking a look at it since it links to an XML template with SNMP OIDs (so should be fairly straight forward to use […]