Top ten SSH login attempts
With all the fuss over NSA intrusion into encrypted datastreams, I thought I'd take a look at the security situation on my own website. To that end, I wrote some perl to fondle the log files and keep a...
View ArticleInquiry of Guest Posting
First SEO spam in a while: Hello, I came across your site (http://www.diaspoir.net/) and would like to discuss the possibility of having a guest post on your site. I’m working on behalf of my client...
View Articledomain registration scam
I get scam attempts: (Letter to Head of Brand Business or CEO, thanks) Dear Sir or Madam, This is a formal email. We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have...
View ArticleFinder crashing every minute
Today I was using my MacBook Pro for work as per normal, when I noticed the Finder windows crashing every minute or so. I tried many things, including: Deleting misc plists from my...
View ArticleApple Store Pricing in Hong Kong
I was noodling around in the Apple Store recently and I noticed something interesting. Traditionally, Apple has followed a fairly simple formula for pricing in the HK Apple Store, which is to do...
View ArticleFZF - Fuzzy Finder
fzf is a useful fuzzy finder that can replace/augment the history command. Works in vim too.
View ArticleMy history with Ultimate Ears earbuds
When I replaced a set of UE 200vi which had failed many times, I went with a relatively high end pair of UE 600vi earbuds, in the hope that they'd exhibit a higher build quality than the previous UE...
View ArticleRepairing a non booting Linux box
The other day my primary mail server was rebooted after some routine package upgrades and it refused to boot! Technically, the BIOS failed to handover to Grub2, so I had to reinstall Grub2 on the MBR...
View ArticleHK Smart ID Cards, Three Stars and Right of Abode
Because nobody seems to understand it, and Most Hong Kong people insist on the wrong thing: SymbolDescription ***The holder is aged 18 or over and is eligible for a HKSAR Re-entry Permit AThe holder...
View ArticleChanging Dynamic DNS Hosts
I host a number of websites from home, and I don't have a fixed IP address, so I need to have a service which updates a DNS entry with my current IP address whenever it changes. Fadó, fadó, in the...
View ArticleBluetooth Issues with MacBookPro 6,2 (Mid 2010)
I recently replaced my elderly MacBookPro (late 2008: 5,1) with a slightly more up to date version (Late 2010: 6,2). While using it, I noticed a very odd problem: Audio over bluetooth headphones...
View ArticleFixing Movable Type Open Source
The Problem: my MT Blog was refusing to load the CMS because of software bit-rot. More Detail: If I try to go to the CMS page I get this (Obviously, as is proud tradition here, all system output...
View ArticleHKID Card
This is the family of NFC chips in the new HKID cards. https://www.nxp.com/products/identification-security/rfid/mifare-hf/mifare-plus:MC_57609 Not sure if this is useful info yet - have to read the...
View ArticleNow served by https
*TAP* *TAP* *TAP* Is this thing still on? Apparently? Anyway, now served over https thanks to Let's Encrypt> and CertBot. (This website is now nearly 20 years old, and the blogs been going (for...
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COVID19 aka SARS-CoV2 aka 2019-NCorv
Here we go again... In early January 2020 in Hong Kong, we started getting an indication of something spreading in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Within a few weeks, HK schools were on hiatus starting...
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