Monthly Archives: June 2012

LDAP & RADIUS centralised authentication

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I recently did a presentation at the June AuckLUG meeting on configuring LDAP and RADIUS centralised authentication solutions. It’s a little rough (first time I’ve done a presentation on the topic), but hopefully is of use to anyone interested in … Continue reading →

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Soldering Adventures

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As part of my efforts to learn more about electronics, I recently obtained a power supply kit that breaks the standard 5V USB output into 3.3V and 5V bread-board connectable outputs from Mindkits (who resell Sparkfun kits in NZ, amongst … Continue reading →

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Lenovo & tp-fan fun

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I quite like my Lenovo X201i laptop, I’ve been using it for a couple years now and it’s turned out to be the ideal combination of size and usability – the 12″ form factor means I can carry it around … Continue reading →

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MOTAT Visit

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Whilst I’ve been in Auckland for about 8 months now and driven past it a number of times, I had yet to visit the Auckland Museum Of Transport And Technology (MOTAT). However this month (June) there’s free entry for all visitors, … Continue reading →

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Keeping Android Wifi Awake

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I run a number of backgrounded applications on my Android phone, such as Nagios (server monitoring) CSipSimple (VoIP/SIP), OpenVPN (SSL-based VPN) and IMAP idle (push email). Whilst this does impact battery life somewhat, I’ve got things reasonably well tuned so … Continue reading →

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cifs, ipv6 and rhel 5

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Unfortunately with my recent project enabling IPv6 across my entire personal server environment, I’ve bumped into a number of annoying issues – nothing that isn’t fixable, but things that are generally frustrating and which just shouldn’t be an issue. Particular … Continue reading →

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Largefiles strike again!

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Jethro Carr

With modern Linux systems – hell, even systems from 5+ years ago – there’s usually very little issue with handling large files (> 2GB), in fact files considered large a decade ago are now tiny in comparison. However sometimes poor … Continue reading →

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Bit Flipping Cycle Lanes

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Jethro Carr

On my recent walk to Devonport I was amazed at the design of the cycle lanes made by the North Shore City Council (now part of the amalgamated Auckland City Council). Aside from the initial amazement that such a car-focused … Continue reading →

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Look to the past to see the future

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I came across  a great tweet the other day, pretty much sums up the whole marriage equality debate being had across the world: Pretty happy that I come from a country that recognizes the rights and privileges for my LGBTWTF … Continue reading →

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Matangi Trains

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I was in Wellington the other week to catch up with friends and family and had the opportunity to catch the new Matangi trains out to Johnsonville – you might remember my previous trip out there featured the pre-WW2 relics, … Continue reading →

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