In a little over two days’ time I’ll be boarding a plane in Manchester on the first leg of a 3-flight trip to Victoria in British Columbia, via Frankfurt and Vancouver. Then, 4 days later I’ll coming back again – this time through San Francisco and Heathrow, and in the process doubling the amount of [...]
After reading Kees Leune‘s guide to setting up a CA here, I thought it’d be handy to script a lot of the legwork involved. The end result after a day or two’s hacking about is ca-mgmt. Bug reports, feature requests, etc. are more than welcome to the usual address, or to the Github Issues page.
A recent number of attempted break-ins to a few machines I manage has had me thinking again about the overall security of the machines, and how to get a better handle on what’s going on. This isn’t something new – anyone managing internet-facing systems ought to be aware of the dangers, and how to mitigate [...]
It’s been a while since I posted on here. It’s been a busy year – for reasons both good and not-so-good – but I’ve got a few ideas that I’ll be posting about over the next week or two. For those interested in amateur radio (or wonder what it’s all about) – I also have [...]
Using NFS between two machines on the same network is usually free of hassle, so the default behaviour – on Linux, at least – is fine and can be left as it is. However, in a commercial setting (such as the ones I manage in my day job) it’s often the case that the machines [...]
I’m currently studying for my amateur radio Foundation license, and as part of this I’ve been playing about with electronics a bit – something which I never really learnt properly when I was younger. There’s plenty of free electronics simulators (such as gEDA), and some not-so-free (Multisim), but the learning curve for them is perhaps [...]
Just a short one – and the first post in a while – but I’ve come across www.hamtests.co.uk, which contains a guide to the syllabus for the exam for the Foundation license – as well as mock tests for the exam itself – which I’m hoping to do in the coming weeks. The site’s not [...]
Another repost, this time from last year when Peter Davies was elected Mayor of Doncaster. I’ve noticed this is being linked to a lot, so here it is (Update (12.06.2009): I’ve had an email from Toby Foster’s brother, who’s pointed out that where I originally transcripted Toby as saying “About right”, he actually says “Well [...]
Doncaster is my home town, and it’s also where I’ve lived for all of my (almost) 28 years since I popped (!) into being at Doncaster Royal Infirmary in the summer of 1982. For those unfamiliar with geography in the north of England, Doncaster’s a fairly large town (with a population just under 300,000) in [...]
Update: I’ve not tested myself, but the comment from Sombunall below points out that package names for the TFTP server and the DHCP server have changed since I wrote this post! It’s often the case that there’s no easy way of installing a machine that doesn’t have any removable media. For instance, I have an [...]
