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Handyman and my reward

Anything but the other

With a little help from my son, making a cover for the grill, function before form and maybe not a winner in Queer Eye, but it does the job.

And the reward. Ok, the trained eye will spot that the ones to the left is 0%. Elin bought them in case we got visitors that would not drink and drive.

Remove rust – sandblasting

Anything but the other

Bought some very cheap equipment at Biltema. Did do the trick, but I would not start my own sandblasting company based on using it. Anyhow…before

And after.

Then I used the drill with a metal brush, later added primer then I will paint it also. End result pictures to come.

X11 Forwarding and su/sudo

Work/Geek

Ever been in the situation where you log on to a server as one user having X11 enabled, but then need to sudo to another one – and voila, your X11-sesison is long gone…

Solution provided here http://brandonhutchinson.com/wiki/X11_Forwarding_and_su/sudo

I did as root


cd ~
mv .Xauthority .Xauthority_old
ln -s ~diagnostics/.Xauthorithy .Xautorithy


and it all worked fine.

Norwegian date format for JIRA

Work/Geek

Navigate to Administration -> General Configuration -> Advanced


jira.date.picker.java.format	        dd.MM.yy		
jira.date.picker.javascript.format	%d.%m.%y		
jira.date.time.picker.java.format	dd.MM.yy h:mm a		
jira.date.time.picker.javascript.format	%d.%m.%y %l:%M %p

My latest book: Laurence Rees – The Nazis

Books

My latest book – Laurence Rees – The Nazis, a warning from history.

…Described as ‘one of the greatest documentary series of all times’ ‘The Nazis – A Warning from History’ won a host of awards, including a Bafta and an International Documentary Award. The accompanying book broke new ground in our understanding of the Nazi regime and was praised for ‘getting to the heart of the most troubling and elusive questions of Germany before and during World War Two’. The dramatic and incredible story that unfolds in these pages, once read, is not easily forgetten.

See more at bbcshop.com

A book of horror, mostly since you get to realize that many of the people who did the most horrible things during WW2 where just ordinary people in the beginning, just like you and me, and when the war was over, they returned to their ordinary lives. Makes you think…could I have done the same thing? And also, even though Hitler himself was not a highly educated man, many of the leading Nazis where…and still…

Firewall verification using a script

Work/Geek

Needed to verify a lot of ports that should be opened making it possible to connect to three hosts. Had to do some surfing, and as always by the help of Google I managed to create a bash-script solving the issue for me.


#!/bin/bash
 
###### Set variables ########
# IP of WAS-server 4,5,6
PREIP=10.10.31.
POSTIP="4;5;6"
# Use Notepad++ and see http://ccapeng.blogspot.no/2008/06/notepad-replace-pattern-with-line-break.html to create the below listings
CSIV2_SSL="10113;10036;10046;10056;10066;10076;10086;10096"
ORB_LISTENER="10014;10024;10034;10044;10054;10064;10074"
BOOTSTRAP="10111;10032;10042;10052;10062;10072;10082"
 
###### DO THE MAGIC ######
echo "Testing from `hostname`"
echo "***********************"
# Use of IFS, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/918886/split-string-based-on-delimiter-in-bash
OIFS=$IFS
IFS=';' read -ra IPARR <<< "$POSTIP"
for ip  in "${IPARR[@]}";
do
    MACHINE=$PREIP$ip
    echo ""
    echo "¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤"
    echo "Testing connectivity against ip $MACHINE"
    echo "¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤"
    echo ""
    echo "Checking CSIV2_SSL_SERVERAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS"
    IFS=';' read -ra CSIV2ARR <<< "$CSIV2_SSL"
    for port in "${CSIV2ARR[@]}";
    do
        # Ignore errors, instead print below
        exec 3>/dev/tcp/${MACHINE}/$port 2>/dev/null
        if [ $? -eq 1 ]
        then
            #Only report errors, ret.value = 1 (success = 0)
                echo "Telnet connections not possible on port $port"
        fi
    done
    
    #...as above, for the rest of the ports needed to be checked, 
    #...copy the above statements and change the source variable.
    #...a bit dirty, but hey, solving a one time issue...who cares :-)

done
# Set IFS back to old value
IFS=$OIFS

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