Tuesday, 20 February 2018

MPLS causes some weird effects - aka Why is traceroute so much slower than ping for some hops?

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Recently, my attention was drawn to something Odd about our traceroutes - namely, that traceroute and ping to an intermediate host on a rout...
Friday, 16 February 2018

Chromebooks? Yes Please.

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We've started seeing more and more Chromebooks. To those in education overseas, they're not exactly news, but they have recently b...
Tuesday, 6 February 2018

The joys of bash - some light scripting for n00bs

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There's a lot to be said for scripting in a sysadmin's life - indeed, if you don't do any scripting, are you even a sysadmin......
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Thursday, 1 February 2018

Poorly Documented Feature: Canned Responses in Delegated Accounts (Gmail)

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It's no secret. We love Gmail. However, sometimes, there are features that don't get used much that are absolute "killer" ...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Weak defaults in IIS 8 cryptography (TLS/HTTPS/SSL)

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So, this isn't exactly a breaking news headline. IIS isn't the most secure web server in the universe. However, it came as a shock t...
Monday, 23 October 2017

RTFM: Speeding up your (Fortigate) firewall performance

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I was witness to the installation of the (yes, single) Fortigate 300C firewall the school uses, however, it was not my own configuration/ins...
Friday, 15 September 2017

Linux Game Server Manager

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One of the teachers at school has declared that "eSports" will now be a Thing at school; his dream is that we thrash our arch-neme...