So, every now and then on a PR I need to rebase and fix things so I can retest etc. – I always forget this so blogging it to remember. Scenario: I have a diff on origin/master on my forked repo and I need a rebase from upstream/master (where I forked from). Process: Github recommends [ View Post… ]
GitHub + Rebasing from upstream/master to origin/master
IPv6 Tacacs+ Support (tac_plus)
Recently @ Facebook we found that we required IPv6 access to TACACS for auth (AAA) for the majority of our production Network Equipment. Tacacs+ (tac_plus) is an old daemon released by Cisco in the late 90s. It still works (even at our scale) and the config was doing what we required, so it was decided that we [ View Post… ]
VMWare Guest Consoles over a WAN with Latency
<p>Have you ever used the VMWare console over a WAN with latency and it enters multiple key strokes into the console and makes using the console super annoying! It makes me HATE VMWare and want to smash it into 10000 pieces with a baseball bat.</p> <p>Well the answer is to add a line to your [ View Post… ]
IPERF CSV Data Summary Script
Recently I was required to do a network performance test between a Head Office and a WAN site. I knocked up this quick python script to parse the data collect to see the results. Thought it could be handy for others so here it is to download / share. Download Script Sample Output: [plain] cooper@dfbit:~/scripts/iperf-parse$ [ View Post… ]
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.plist ‘ 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 [ View Post… ]
GPU Upgrade – 9800gt to 280gtx
So I have parted my cheeks and bought a new Nvidia GTX 280gtx for my Hackintosh / Win7 i7 920 6gb of memory desktop machine. It also caused me to buy a new Coomaster 650W PSU to power the power hungry fella and Zalman 10x Quiet CPU Cooler. Dam it’s a nice GPU, despite it [ View Post… ]
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg – The Largest Model Train set in the WORLD !
I like to control room! ANSTO Main reactor control eat your heart out ! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&w=560&h=340] For more info visit: Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
Apple Mac OS X Time Machine over NFS (10.5 or greater)
Create a Sparebundle to copy to your NFS/SMB/AFP volume hdiutil create -size $SIZEg -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname “Backup of $MACHINENAME” $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle Use ifconfig and sub in your $MACHINENAME_$MAC_ADRESS into the sparsebundle filename – Remove the ‘:’ chars e.g. 0018b31184dd Use hostname to get your machines hostname – Don’t use fqdn Size can be adjusted [ View Post… ]
uit.sh Hits over 1000 Downloads !
Just thought I would pass on that my Ubuntu Iphone teathersing Shell Script has passed 1000 downloads. Feels good to have people all over the world use your script 🙂 Hope everyone that has downloaded it has enjoyed it as much as I have in the car on the way to work. To see my [ View Post… ]
Ubuntu iPhone 3.0 Bluetooth Tethering with uit.sh
If you would like to use your iPhone 3.0 with your bluetooth capable Ubuntu 9.04 PC then uit.sh (Ubuntu Iphone Thethering) is for you. This script installs all required conf, allows you to enable and disable your iphone tethering and even uninstall the conf if you no longer need it. I do expect NetworkManager to [ View Post… ]
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