Friday, October 9, 2020

Authenticating to MongoDB using a keyfile

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Sometimes, it might be useful to authenticate to MongoDB using a keyfile. (This requires it to be configured to use a keyfile, mostly for re...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Euro cylinder lock fixing screw sizes

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Euro profile cylinder locks use M5x70mm countersunk machine screws. (The size is hard to find, the M5 is in the relevant standard, DIN 182...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Managing FirewallD ipsets and services using Ansible

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Ansible's FirewallD module ( 2.4 , 2.5 and at least up to 1.4.0 of the ansible.posix collection) supports managing a subset of Firewa...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Solaris 10 - fiocompress (UFS file compression) settings

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Bernd Schemmer has an interesting post about using fiocompress for file-system level compression of individual files on UFS file systems .....

eFiling and eHomeAffairs in Chrome

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Google bundles Flash with Chorme (making it the only option for some things on GNU/Linux), however they have recently started phasing out Fl...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

OpenSSL cipher suite without forward secrecy

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Firstly, you should not use this in normal use. Sometimes, you might need to debug a problem that occurs behind TLS. Wireshark can deco...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Handling messages forwarded as attachment by Outlook with MIME::Parser in Perl

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Outlook sends emails that are forwarded as attachment with an .eml extension and the content-type set to application/octet-stream. Accordin...