I decided to experiment with creating a central database to hold the IP addresses banned by various servers / honeypots running Fail2Ban – so that the information could be used as a source for IPtables or TCPWrappers to protect other servers. I created the file /etc/fail2ban/action.d/qshield.conf and in it placed the following: [Definition] actionstart =… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Minecraft Server on CentOS 6
I downloaded the minecraft server package and extracted it to /opt/minecraft I installed screen and Java (OpenJDK) using yum as follows: yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk screen The SysV init startup scripts provided on the Wiki didn’t work for me so I cobbled the following together which works for me. Anyone else wishing to use this should… Read more »
Google Takeout
My Google Drive (Google Docs) was a mess with outdated documents and a poor folder structure so I decided to start afresh by deleting everything and building a tidier folder structure. Deleting everything presents a little problem and in steps Google Takeout – part of the Google Data Liberation Front. Google actually make it easy… Read more »
Nintendo DS R4
Bought an R4 card from r4ibuy.com and added the software following the instructions here http://www.r4isdhc.com/r4-download/ Happy gaming!
Minecraft Black Screen on Ubuntu 12.10
Having just purchased Minecraft I tried running it on Ubuntu but after logging in all I had was a black screen. Running the file in a terminal (java -jar minecraft.jar) showed me the error message was to do with libjawt.so so I ran: locate libjawt.so To see if I could find where it is located…. Read more »
Dynamic DNS to Raspberry Pi
I now have my Raspberry Pi hanging off my router – just two cables – a USB cable to the USB port on the router for power and one ethernet cable. 1. Static IP Address I edited the file: /etc/network/interfaces replacing: iface eth0 inet dhcp with iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.51 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1… Read more »
