28

Feb

2013

Fail2Ban Custom Action

February 28, 2013 jonny linux, php

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... » More

25

Feb

2013

Minecraft Server on CentOS 6

February 25, 2013 jonny games, red hat centos

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... » More

25

Feb

2013

Google Takeout

February 25, 2013 jonny Uncategorized

My Google Drive (Google Docs) was a mess with outdated documents and a poor folder structure so I decided to start afresh by deleting everything and building a tidier folder structure.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... » More

17

Feb

2013

Nintendo DS R4

February 17, 2013 jonny games

Bought an R4 card from r4ibuy.com and added the software following the instructions here http://www.r4isdhc.com/r4-download/  Happy gaming!

15

Feb

2013

Minecraft Black Screen on Ubuntu 12.10

February 15, 2013 jonny games, ubuntu

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... » More

03

Feb

2013

Dynamic DNS to Raspberry Pi

February 3, 2013 jonny linux, network, ubuntu

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... » More

25

Jan

2013

Android Emulator: Getting Started

January 25, 2013 jonny android

Like a virtual machine for running a version of Android,  the Android emulator is useful for testing. I used it to check how websites looked under Android. After installing the Android SDK run the ./android binary in the 'tools' directory and install... » More

23

Jan

2013

Recording Streaming Video with XVidCap

January 23, 2013 jonny open source, ubuntu

I wanted to record a streamed video on Ubuntu 12.10 from a web page that did not offer a download facility. This could be useful if you needed to record a video not offered for download, for example from websites such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, RTE... » More

18

Jan

2013

Digital AlphaServer 4100 (A1)

January 18, 2013 jonny unix

Still VMSy after all these years....

17

Jan

2013

WordPress Bones: First Steps with CSS/less

January 17, 2013 jonny web design

Note quite a tutorial but I have taken my first steps with the WordPress Bones theme. After downloading Bones I extracted bones into the ./wp-content/themes folder. To amend the CSS I edited the files in the ./library/less/ folder. Specifically I edited... » More