Category Archives: Network

My home network and all my machines.

February Desktop

A new month (2 weeks ago), a new screen and thus a two new desktop backgrounds (and last months):

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Confession

So today I come to you with a confession, I discovered one of my boxen had been successfully attacked and the attacker had by the looks of things used it for launching DDoS attacks. I feel particularly stupid because the … Continue reading

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Into the New Year

So it is the other side of the festive period and I am slightly better for it, financially. Next pay day should be even better, worked over 70 hours plus in 2 1/2 weeks. I bought myself a new phone … Continue reading

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Christmas

Merry humbug to everyone who believes that some bloke called Jesus was born 2007 years ago today, Merry Christmas to others who joins in the madness just because its ‘easier’ that way. Christmas is overly commercialised nowadays and has lost … Continue reading

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Ekiga VoIP client and SIPGate

Ekiga is a VoIP client for GNOME. I recently registered with SIPGate.co.uk as I am planning to have a go at setting up Asterisk sometime in the near future. Sadly it wasn’t a well documented process and after searching Google, … Continue reading

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Subversion and Apache Gotcha

So, this is the second time I have tried to address the problem I was getting with some Subversion repositories I was trying to configure to be served by Apache. I was trying to use the SVNPath directive to serve … Continue reading

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Upgraded

I just upgraded this blog using a Subversion patch, seems to be working ok, will keep and eye out for any 404s see if I missed any new files and the like. I also started to burn my feed.

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Disabled Akismet, comments held for moderation.

I have made the decision to disable Akismet, after reading some hype about the new WordPress 2.3′s plugin version check API, which turned out to be negative but reveals something interesting with regards to Akismet. The following code is taken … Continue reading

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Broadcast Ping

You can tell Linux to respond to broadcast pings by running this snippet from the console. $ echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to set the option permanently.

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Uptime – Take 2

Turns out I had a computer on for even longer which I had forgotten about! benjamin, one of my Linksys WRT54-g’s. He doesn’t really do much apart from provide WiFi access for my PDA and networking for my room (two … Continue reading

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