There is a cool little trick to get the status of a dd operation out of the system. It will provide the status of dd via the err interface. You can do this one of two ways, either background (bg) the operation or perform it in a new terminal or screen. For OpenBSD, a SIG_INFO …
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Hard Drive Sanitisation
I often get asked the best way to securely erase a disk or what to use to ensure that a disk has been sanitised to DoD 5220-22-M. A reasonable way to achieve this would be: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s2 bs=10k or dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/r#d#c bs=10k This will ensure that random (not completely random, but good enough) …
OpenBSD 5.3 Released
The start of May 2013 marks the release of OpenBSD 5.3. Another release brings a swag of hardware improvements along with software features that will give users even more choices when they are building a server, router/firewall or desktop computer.
HDHomeRun and Linux
With a few guests coming over tomorrow afternoon for beers in the garage and the Hawks playing on the box, I thought we might need some TV where we are drinking. I thought, no problems, I’ll get the Windows notebook out and set it up in the garage and stream TV from the HD Home …
ownCloud 4.5 Installed
With the whole Google Reader issue (not that I am a user), I got think – some of the facilities that I use on the internet could be taken away, without notice or have an ability to extract my data out of the applications. It was time that I took some things seriously and roll …
South Australia Tour 2011
It has taken a while to find the spare time to edit and produce this clip. It took around 60 hours of work from a rough guess. We had an excellent time in the Australian outback and just doing this video brought all the memories back as if it was just a couple of months …
Nginx in OpenBSD 5.2-Release
Nginx(8) is the replacement web server for the old patched Apache 1.3 in OpenBSD. As of OpenBSD 5.2, Nginx(8) is still not the primary [default] web server in the BSD release and allows for users to slowly migrate from Apache to Nginx(8) without additional package install.
Windows 8 has been released
All the news around the webs states that Windows 8 has been released. I was meaning to get down to Harvey Norman for the midnight launch (something that I did back when Windows 95 hit the streets) but funnily enough, I forgot. No big deal really, the internet reminded me, so I went to the …
Tubsta house finally goes solar
The time was right to finally go with a solar array on the Tubsta household. Prices have come down significantly and with NSW turning the tap off on their very lucrative feed-in tariffs (FITs), the market was awash with heavily discounted, high quality gear.
OpenBSD 5.2 pre-orders are up
The OpenBSD project has announced that pre-orders for the up coming 5.2 release of the operating system are now on-line. The release is due to hit shelves and mirrors on 1 November, 2012. The inexpensive 3-CD sets of OpenBSD 5.2 are $50CDN, Posters $2oCDN and T-Shirts $25CDN. While you are there, you can also make …