Author: cooperlees

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 [ View Post… ]

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] [ View Post… ]

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

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 [ View Post… ]

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 [ View Post… ]