2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion + ATEN UC232A USB to Serial Adapter
32- and 64-bit PL2303 drivers for OS X 10.6 are available here. You’ll need to modify, as root, the ‘/System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/Contents/Info.plistĀ ‘ file after installing the driver to suit the USB manufacturer and device ID. For the ATEN UC232A, examples below appear to work for it (for me in 10.7). To obtain the IDs, Wayne Roberts (who […]
New MacBook Air + Lion – spot the difference
The new air is much better looking ! Spaces (10.6) vs. Mission Control (10.7)
Juniper SRX Chassis Cluster + LACP Redundant Eth Interfaces
So a co-worker and I spent some time playing around with JunOS 11’s (I believe it came in with 11 – correct me if wrong) reth’s ability to now be LACP interfaces, as well as just plain redundant. It was not immediately clear how the switch was required to be set up in order to […]
Telstra 3g vs. Vodaphone 3g Latency
Ever wondered why 3G from Vodaphone is so crap? I did, so from Central station I did a ping test on each network one after another. Here is the difference between the latency to an AARNET connected host @ ANSTO. The results speak for themselves. Vodaphone: — 137.157.8.5 ping statistics —10 packets transmitted, 10 packets […]
Cat5’O Nine Tails
I think the plastic clips would hurt … Yes, you are looking at a flogger crafted from cat-5 wiring. (Internet cable, in other words.) It sports a D-ring for easy hanging. This will satisfy your inner – or outer! – geek for sure. š Each tip is firmly wired in place and secured with bonding […]
mplayer2 (and other goodies) on OpenIndiana (possibly Solaris 11)
Want mplayer2 (the newer fork of mplayer) that uses ffmpeg goodness to play all the latest avi’s with funky codecs and mp4 hidef goodness. Some Openindiana contributors are building a lot of friendly packages in the oi-sfe repo. [plain] sudo pkg set-authority -O http://staticdev.uk.openindiana.org:10002 oi-sfe sudo pkg refresh –full sudo pkg install SFEmplayer2 SFEgccruntime [/plain] […]
ipadm Script for Openindiana / Solaris 11 Ex
I love ipadm. It rocks. Much needed for Solaris and derivatives. I seem to keep forgetting the dam new ipadm commands tho. So I wrote this script to help me set up new SolarisĀ machinesĀ and thought I would share. [bash] #!/usr/bin/bash INTERFACE=$1 ADDRESS=$2 GATEWAY=$3 V6AUTO=1 errorCheck() { if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: […]
Old School Lecture Typewriter Trolling
“What is that? Can you mute it?” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7AaTVMXA0&w=480&h=390] “It dosen’t do that.”
KFC 20Twenty Top 10 6’s
If you did not see all the biggest hits of the 2010 KFC Big Bash here they are – Awesome stuff. I do love David “The Canon” Warner’s hit out of Tasmania off Hilfy … FoxSports Top 10 6’s 2010 KFC Big Bash
30 Levels of NAT Firewall Lab
So I am a very large geek, and proud of it. It hurt to walk past a cupboard at work knowing there was 30+ Cisco PIX 501 firewalls sitting in there collecting dust. One day it dawned on me, I wonder how crap internet would be sitting behind 30 of those slow ass god awful […]