So after the Julius/Nandos Farce, the puppet has found a new home.
No, the plastic puppet, that was used in the Nandos advert.
Posted: May 7th, 2009
at 12:02pm by daffy
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The next part of this project, is to install OpenVPN. Again, in Debian, this is pretty simple. So make sure you’re logged in as root, and run the following:
apt-get install openvpn
See, I said it was easy. Now there’s a little more of a complex part, where we setup the CA and utilities needed for generating Certificates for the Server and all the Clients.
Its voting day in South Africa, so hopefully all of the 23m registered voters will be out enjoying the public holiday in the open air.
And then they’ll all be heading to Wimpy for their free coffee
And those of you with a sense of humour, will read Hayibo’s Election News, and giggle to yourselves at the new Nandos advert. (Those without a sense of humour will be offended, and try to sue Nandos. Or take Militant action, whatever floats your gravy boat)
Posted: April 22nd, 2009
at 9:15am by daffy
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RTE have opened their online catch-up service to the public today.
They call it the RTE Player.
I’ve been playing around with this for a few days now. (Thanks RTE for giving me a beta account!)
Its very impressive actually. Quality is great, and I haven’t found a single bug yet. It just works.
Posted: April 21st, 2009
at 12:07pm by daffy
Tagged with internet, rte player
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As weird as it may sound, I have all the time in the world for people with too much free time.
And this man, clearly had too much free time when he came up with this.
Posted: April 21st, 2009
at 8:44am by daffy
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As with all projects, you have to start by laying the basic blocks to build the interesting parts on.
So this is where we will begin the Monster VPN Project
I’m assuming you’ve already got Debian installed. I’m not going into this, as its been documented all over the place, and isn’t that much of a problem. (And in all honesty, if you struggle with this, you might want to reconsider continueing this project)
The best place to start on this project, is to install MySQL. Since its going to be the database that stores all the data for the VPN’s, its best to have this in place before you start with the rest of it.
I’ve decided to try my hand at creating a Virtual Network service.
The idea is to have a simple web interface where I can add/remove/edit user accounts, Generate Certificates for endpoints and check users usage.
RADIUS is a fantastic AAA (Accounting Authentication And Authorization) protocol, which is used for almost everything ISP related (dial-up, dsl, wimax, wifi hotspots), so it seems only fitting that I use it for this application. It also means I can integrate other things into it, without serious modification (since its a standard). I may even start using it for building my own Hotspot controller for Mikrotik RouterOS based hotspots.
Posted: April 15th, 2009
at 10:32am by daffy
Tagged with freeradius, linux, networking, openvpn, projects, radiusplugin, vpn
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The ex-Minister of Telecommunications in South Africa died last week.
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, better known as Poison Ivy, was the topic of a few of my rants in the past.
She was really good at stuffing things up, and then starting legal procedures against anyone who tried to fix it. I think she’s the first true example of the “If it aint fixed, don’t fix it, sleep instead” mindset.
Government released their own tribute to her, which ignores all her failings.
So it was left to some more objective people to come up with a fitting tribute.
Posted: April 14th, 2009
at 9:53am by daffy
Tagged with poison ivy, south africa, telecoms
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So, its easter, and in true consumer tradition, we decided to spend Saturday wandering around the shops. We discovered Homebase, which is a massive DIY/Gardening/everything store.
They had loads of sales on, and all sorts of specials.
Tommorow is Good Friday, and strangely enough, its not a public holiday in Ireland.
Its what they call a Discretionary day, so businesses can “declare” it a day off for their staff, or not (like my employers). The Mrs works for a company that likes their employees, so she has tommorow off. I don’t. Which is rather rubbish, but not nearly as rubbish as being home in bed sick on a free day! Heh
So in the spirit of being mean for Easter, here’s some instructions on how to make an Easter Egg that no-one can retrieve