Bash Batch re-encode videos based on resolution, filetype and codec Its been quite handy recently to re-encode some old videos to x265/HEVC to save a bit (actually a fair bit :o) of disk space now that most devices at
simple Specifically disable certificate verification in lftp LFTP is a great FTP program that I use quite regularly. I recently had a problem connecting to a server (that I didnt control) and getting the following error due to the cert being self signed:
Eggdrop Eggdrop URL title grabbing script Another simple script similar to the youtube title grabber that will attempt to grab the title for any HTTP(s) URL spammed into the chan. Includes some basic throttling for
Send break with minicom Getting old and not something I typically have to do much these days but short reminder to myself of how to send a break command to a serial port or
Linux Install and verify softflowd for Netflow on OpenWrt softflow is a great opensource Netflow exporter that is support on OperWrt :) This allows us to sample the flows running through our OpenWrt router, export them to a netflow analyzer
Eggdrop openweathermap script for eggdrop Recently wunderground announced the end of new registrations for "free" API access making an earlier eggdrop weather script [here] somewhat less useful. The script below attempts to replicate
Eggdrop movie search script for eggdrop bot using api Recently another script I used to search for film information got broken. After a quick look around I found the nice people over at OMDb (http://www.omdbapi.com/) who
Eggdrop Twitter Eggdrop script I've started to play around the the Twitter API a little and created a small script to grab the contents of a spammed tweet link and display it in the
Eggdrop News script for eggdrop bot This script uses the API from newsapi.org to return the latest headlines from a users preselected news site. Requires +news set on the channel and your own free API
Kodi kodi-pvr-mythtv addon for Fedora (25) Kodi MythTV PVR automated packages from rpmfusion. and unitedrpms. sadly haven't been working on my Fedora 24 or 25 systems for quite sometime with crashes and failures to load that
Scripting Subnet Calculator A simple subnet calculator that will accept either an IPv4 or IPv6 subnet in CIDR notation For example 192.168.10.0/29 or beef::/112 is acceptable. The tool
Eggdrop Gif search script for eggdrop bot Just another small script that uses the nice API over at giphy to return gif links based on the query from a user. Requires +giphy set on the channel but
CCIE EIGRP Filtering (GNS3 lab) In this GNS3 lab we're looking as the various options on how we can filter updates between EIGRP speakers and then how that affects the traffic flow (as EIGRP is
IPv6 Juniper SRX IPv6 (VDSL or FFTC) Recently ZEN announced an open IPv6 trial in the UK and first impressions are very good (just like the rest of their service :D ) DHCPv6 using prefix delegation (RFC 3633)
Eggdrop Image search script for eggdrop (Bing API) ***BING have since closed their API so this script no longer works :( Sadly one of the few APIs that still provides access to image search now the Bing API provides
Eggdrop Weather eggdrop script for wunderground.com API *** This API has since been closed by Wunderground :( Please look HERE for an more modern alternative This is a simple script tcl script for an eggdrop that will allow users
CCIE 6to4 Tunnelling (GNS3 Lab) This is a quick lab to look over how 6to4 tunnelling can be implemented using GNS3 1.3 and 3725 (running c3725-adventerprisek9-mz124-15.image). The topology will be as below but
Fedora Install GNS3 1.x on Fedora 22 Quick guide to installing the quite awesome GNS3. Very similar process to Fedora 20 but this time using DNF and a small adjustment on some package names with some extras
Linux Decrypt HTTPS (SSL/TLS) with Wireshark Wireshark has some very nice SSL/TLS decryption features tucked away although you need either of the following two: Access to the servers private pki key Access to the client
CCIE GET VPN (GNS3 Lab) Group Encrypted Transport (GET) VPN is slightly different and has quite different use cases from more traditional point to point IPSEC VPN where each point to point VPN is quite
CCIE DMVPN setup with PSK (GNS3 Lab) Dynamic Multipoint VPNs (DMVPN) offer a low admin overhead and scalable VPN solution. It is also efficient at routing traffic as it can dynamically reconfigure itself from a hub and
640-553 CCNA Security Disable ASA TCP State tracking (make my ASA a router) Recently had to use this (useful?) feature to help a customer with an asymmetric traffic flow via an ASA. The ASA would only see the out bound traffic from a
Centos Install NGINX with HTTP/2 and Pagespeed [toc] Been playing recently with nginx rather than apache (nginx supports http/2 now as of 1.9.5) and its been quite a nice change with a much cleaner
Cisco jun2acl (Juniper to Cisco ACL Script) Recently we've needed to migrate an inherited environment away from Juniper Junos and onto Cisco IOS. As part of this a lot (!) of old an quite nasty firewall filter config
CCIE EIGRP (Named vs Legacy) Just a quick look over the basic differences with the newer style of EIGRP config. It really is quite a bit nicer (more logcal?) layout in the config with things
