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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. 🙂 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 Solaris machines 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 […]
IPTables Template
So I thought I would share a good IPTables starting template, all tested on Ubuntu 10.10. [plain] # Cooper Lees IPTables Rules # Last Updated 20110409 # Drop by default iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT #ICMP is Good iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m […]
Senior IT Security Consultant
So a new chapter of my life begins next month when I change my place of work from 4.5 years of being a HPC / Unix admin @ ANSTO (http://www.ansto.gov.au) to become a senior security focused network engineer. I will be moving to ICT Security, being based in North Sydney with a main focus on […]
Retired Sun v880 now a Bedside Table !
Question: What do you do with an old cool looking huge Sun server that you can not give away? Sun v880 now next to bed.cooperlees.com … Answer: Make it a bedside table. Epic Win.