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CrowdSec for EmDash

A sandboxed EmDash plugin that brings your CrowdSec alerts, bans and top threats into the admin, with optional bans and unbans for administrators.

Updating this blog to EmDash 1.2

Release notes, migrations, backups, a rehearsal under gVisor, install-script approvals and checks that see past the bot challenge: the update procedure for this site, now on EmDash 1.2.

How this blog is built

The build sheet for this site: a hardened Debian server, EmDash in a gVisor container, nginx, TLS and CrowdSec.

Step-by-Step: Setting Up 5G and Starlink for Caravans

Connecting Home Assistant Network UPS Tools (NUT) Client to Synology UPS Server

Ubuntu LACP Ethernet Bond/Teaming by GUI

Qi Wireless Charging Dock for Tesla Model S/X

eSIM on the iPhone XS (and XS Max)

Password Managers

Inexpensive mobile phones and plans in Australia

My tips on saving money with mobile phones and plans in Australia. Remember contracts are rarely your friend.

iSync Plugin for Sony Ericsson K850i

Come on Sony - Where are the iSync Plugins?

Optus Wireless Broadband USB on Mac OSX

I recently moved my data only mobile plan from 3 to Optus due to their support of fallback to GPRS at no additional charge (ie better coverage). Getting it to work on Mac was a trial.

Is IMAP not showing in your Gmail Settings?

As of October 2007, Google have enabled IMAP support for Gmail, but it wasn't showing in my settings. I did some searches and no-one had a workaround other than "wait, your server probably isn't updated yet". Well I think I have a fix, and it's easy.

iSync Plugin for Nokia 6120 Classic

I picked myself up a Nokia 6120 Classic to assist in some signal strength issues in my home office, and it’s worked brilliantly. The only thing I didn’t count on is Nokia not having an iSync plugin for the phone (they seem to have one for every other device).

Sync Mac OSX iCal with Google Calendar

For those that want to sync their calendar and access it online but don't want to shell out for the cost of Apple .Mac, it's been a while coming but now there is a solution: gSync from a small company by the name of Macness.

iTunes Plus is a Negative on the N95?

iTunes Plus was just made available to the public, and I straight away jumped in and bought some music from iTunes - the first time in over a year (yay DRM-free music). It of course plays perfectly in iTunes & perfectly on my iPod… but - wait a second! My Nokia N95 won’t play it, with an error message of “File is Corrupted. Operation Cancelled”.

Google Maps Australia now does Directions

This may not be news to everyone - I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but I've just found that Google Maps Australia can now do very accurate address mapping, and with it comes the ability to provide turn by turn directions from one address to another (or many). Whilst this has been a supported feature in the US since day one, Australia wasn't so lucky, until now.

Mac OSX Finder Refresh

A small but annoying thing about Mac OSX is that sometimes it doesn’t refresh itself when a file or folder is changed - especially when dealing with SMB (Windows) share drives. In Windows you can hit F5 to refresh the current Window, but Apple seemed to have forgotten to add this feature to Mac OSX. Well I searched the web and finally found an Applescript to do this

Vista Media Center and Videos on Network Drives

Well I succumbed and picked up Microsoft Vista Home Premium for my Media Center PC.It's actually running extremely well and is more stable than XP Media Center 2005. It does have it's little quirks, and one of them is getting my home movies that are stored on a network drive to show up under Vista Media Center's Videos in a nice way** . This also more seriously effects Xbox 360's running as an extender as Vista Home Premium no longer lets you set the extender up with a login script for it to see the network drives.

HP Photosmart C6180 on Mac OSX

I picked up a new HP Photosmart C6180 printer today - nice printer with auto sheet feeding scanner and copier, as well as inbuilt fax. It also looks nice too. Problem is the Mac driver in the box...