Using fail2ban to mitigate WordPress xmlrpc.php DDoS attacks
The other day my WordPress network went down. Upon investigation it turned out it was receiving a massive amount of http posts to the xmlrpc.php file. Apparently there is a WordPress DDoS that uses...
View ArticleApache [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) does NOT match server...
Apache was giving me lots of errors like this on my host that has multiple virtual hosts on it. [Mon Nov 10 13:54:01 2014] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `www.xxx.com.au' does NOT match...
View ArticleI just donated to Wikipedia
After reading a blog post from someone who donated to Wikipedia because they use it a lot, I realised I use it a lot too, so I decided to donate too. Unfortunately I can’t quite remember who’s post it...
View Article#lca2015: Using FOI to get source code
Michael Cordover has spent significant time and money chasing down the code used for counting Australian Election results. He goes into the reasons why that is important. Another great talk from...
View ArticleI wrote to Turnbull to complain about the lack of NBN. Here is his reply
After traveling to New Zealand for #lca2015 and experiencing fibre to the home at my friends house, I decided to write to Malcolm Turnbull to express my concern about the slow rollout of the NBN in...
View ArticleLaunch emacs from cygwin
I have written about about using emacs in cygwin and how to launch emacs from cygwin, but I had some problems with the batch file approach in that emacs’ path differ from bash’s. Then ack fails to work...
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Clock Part 2
Previously… A bit more progress on my clock. I installed the dirty pink gel filter to increase the contrast ratio of the 7 segment displays, and started cutting the final case out of red 101 acrylic....
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Clock Part 3
I finally finished the outer case of my clock. Only 19 layers of 3mm acrylic stacked on top of each other. Laser cutting the rear panel and finger slot Rear panel with finger slot and barrel jack...
View ArticleLetter to the minister for small business about slow Internet in Australia
Today I wrote to the minister for small business complaining about the crap Internet in this country. I urge you to write to your MPs also if you think the lack of NBN is a problem. Dear Mr Billson,...
View ArticleBPay View feedback
Dear CommBank, While I think NetBank is great, the BPayView part seriously lets it down. I tweeted my feelings about this and you asked for feedback, so here it is: 1. It silently lets the biller...
View ArticleFreeTDS is a bag of razorblades use, Microsoft ODBC Driver for Linux instead
According to @mst FreeTDS is a bag of razorblades. That’s right folks, don’t use it. The new way to go is Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Linux. Unfortunately its a nightmare to install on...
View ArticleUniquify your Buffer Names in emacs with use-package
Recently I have been working on projects that often have multiple files of the same name. By default emacs doesn’t give much information to help you switch between the buffers of open files of the same...
View ArticleXero’s Paypal feed is crap
I’ve been setting up a new paypal account and I thought it would be nice to get the feed of transactions directly into Xero. Unfortunately Xero’s PayPal feed doesn’t understand how PayPal initially...
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Workbench progress
Test fitting the wedge that secures the leg to the skirt Wedge retainer fitted At last the bench self supports with the fitting of the first skirt Workbench tops resting on the leg struts
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Poor man’s router with wedge fail
I tried making a Paul Seller’s style Poor Man’s Router plane. It worked quite well but I couldn’t get the chisel’s blade edge to be really perpendicular to the surface of the wood. As an alternative I...
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Origami platonic solids
I’ve been making some of these platonic solids in origami. Thanks to John Montroll’s books From left to right. A tetrahedron, a cube and an octahedron.
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Origami sunken octahedron
Another John Montroll model, this time from A Plethora of Polyhedra. A sunken octahedron.
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Command Option R on a Windows keyboard
Today I had to do an OS X internet recovery but I only had a Windows keyboard. Normally the keyboard combination to launch the Internet Recovery on Macs is Cmd+Option+R but I couldn’t find the right...
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Origami Octahemioctahedron
I made an Octahemioctahedron from John Montroll’s book A Plethora of Polyhedra in Origami
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