Posted on Tue 02 July 2019 in Retro • Tagged with linux, megacd
With the recent purchases of my JVC X'eye, I dug out my old USB CD Burner and burnt a few games only to find the audio produced pops and hissing.
Turns out you need to use --swap to
"Swap the byte order of all samples that are send to the …
Posted on Sun 21 October 2018 in Computing • Tagged with linux, jq, json
JSON seems to be the goto text format these days. I wasn't a massive fan because I think YAML is nicer to read and XML I still think is great (think XPATH, XSTL etc) albeit not very hipster
Anyway, tools are what tends to make a technology IMHO and JQ …
Posted on Sun 03 September 2017 in Computing • Tagged with rsyslog, logging
rsyslog never seems to get as much attention as it should now that everyone seems to use logstash. I like rsyslog - it's always in the system repositories and it's been about for ages.
In this scenario I wanted to forward log files from a local file system verbatim to a …
Posted on Sat 22 October 2016 in Computing • Tagged with linux, ansible
Posted on Fri 19 February 2016 in Computing • Tagged with ssh
This is a problem i've been having more and more as my collection of keys and \~/.ssh.config grows. Sometimes you just need to log in with a password but ssh will try all of your keys and then the server prevents you from trying a password challenge because you've …
Posted on Wed 13 January 2016 in Computing • Tagged with freeipa
I was not entirely happy with the documentation for this
here:
While correct, It gives me no idea how to check the current configuration or
how to turn anonymous binds back on again, or how to test my changes
Here is my approach:
Check the current config with this ldap …
Posted on Sun 06 December 2015 in Computing • Tagged with python
My very first post on this blog was how to build Python from source. In 2015 it turns out that this is a bit harder that it should be, and having wasted most of the morning working it out I'm posting the solution for future reference.
Building Python in the …
Posted on Sun 29 November 2015 in Computing • Tagged with screenos, firewall, xbox
Here are my notes on Xbox one firewall ports with ScreenOS.
Contrary to what is posted online, I've found that not all ports need to be opened and certainly in my experience only 2 need be "port forwarded" - I used a VIP for this as I have only one public …
Posted on Thu 01 October 2015 in Computing • Tagged with ansible, rackspace
Introduction
In this post a simple playbook is demonstrated to provision a pseudo DC in Rackspace.
Following on from the previous post, a parametrised playbook is created to:
- Install a keypair from a file - Create a management network - Create a domain name
This playbook will likely only be run once …