October | 2017 | The Cra1gster

RIP DVD in Ubuntu

October 29, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

Off course they’re my DVDs! Just need backups.. Info below based on this post. 1. Get ISO info from your DVD

isoinfo -d -i /dev/sr0 | grep -i -E 'block size|volume size'
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 2264834

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isoinfo -d -i /dev/sr0 | grep -i -E 'block size|volume size'

Logical block size is: 2048

Volume size is: 2264834

2. Use dd and modify count param to match vol size displayed in step (1)

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/test.iso bs=2048 count=2264834
2264834+0 records in
2264834+0 records out
4638380032 bytes (4.6 GB, 4.3 GiB) copied, 373.405 s, 12.4 MB/s

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dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/test.iso bs=2048 count=2264834

2264834+0 records in

2264834+0 records out

4638380032 bytes (4.6 GB, 4.3 GiB) copied, 373.405 s, 12.4 MB/s

3. Calc and compare checksums

md5sum /home/test.iso 
d3a2cdd58b8c9ade05786526a4a8eae2  /home/test.iso

1 2	md5sum /home/test.iso d3a2cdd58b8c9ade05786526a4a8eae2 /home/test.iso

NB: I am unable to get an md5sum directly from the cd-rom, getting error md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error Instead I’ll use this:

sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=number_you_got_from_step_2 | md5sum

1	sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=number_you_got_from_step_2 \| md5sum

Same checksum twice and I’m GTG

A new NAS – Zyxel NAS326 2-Bay Personal Cloud Storage

October 28, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

This has been a project 5 years in the making. It happens. Was going to build my own NAS many years ago but it never eventuated. Purchased a few Seagate 500GB SATA II Internal HDDs from eBay back in April 2011 for around $100 each and was going to put them in a Thermaltake HDD canister picked up from newegg. (via PriceUSA ; a great service!) USD 70 down the drain 🙁 I think I ended up jettisoning the canister during one of my many moves. Also picked up a CF Adapter Card and a Kingston 8GB CF card on…

WD MyBook Live on Ubuntu

October 27, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

Argh, you always remember your first NAS. I had forgotten the struggle to get this working under Ubuntu, so thought it prudent to put this post together (for my own reference, if nothing more..) Picked this up from Officeworks, at decent price IIRC. It’s essentially a 1TB HDD with Gigabit ethernet, powered by Debian ‘Lenny’. Although it doesn’t state support for Linux, it can be mounted via CIFS and works fine. Having said that, it isn’t the best NAS around. It has a single drive hence no fault tolerance, and the drive is not serviceable. To perform the initial setup,…

How to map a subdomain to a subfolder

October 24, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

This one proved a little trickier than I expected. I’m using wordpress and h2o webserver. YMMV. I am not using WPMU The goal: map test.example.com -> /var/www/html/subdomains/test NB: Your hmtl root dir may vary. I use ubuntu 16.04 1. DNS – Create a CNAME record on your DNS host which is an alias of your domain name 1.1 Point browser to test.example.com. It should re-direct to your current wordpress install 2. Create a virtual host on your web server listening for your subdomain i.e. “test.example.com”. I need to edit /etc/h2o/h2o.conf. If you’re using nginx or Apache look away now!

"test.example.com:80":
    listen:
      port: 80
    paths:
      "/":
        file.dir: /var/www/html/subdomains/test  # serve static files if found
        file.dirlisting: on
        redirect:                     # if not found, internally redirect to /i$
          url: /index.php/
          internal: YES
          status: 307

file.custom-handler:                  # handle PHP scripts using php-cgi (FastCGI mode)
  extension: .php
  fastcgi.connect:
    port: /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock
    #port: /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock
    type: unix

file.index: [ 'index.php', 'index.html' ]

access-log: /var/log/h2o/access-log
error-log: /var/log/h2o/error-log
pid-file: /var/run/h2o/pid

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"test.example.com:80":

listen:

port: 80

paths:

"/":

file.dir: /var/www/html/subdomains/test # serve static files if found

file.dirlisting: on

redirect: # if not found, internally redirect to /i$

url: /index.php/

internal: YES

status: 307

file.custom-handler: # handle PHP scripts using php-cgi (FastCGI mode)

extension: .php

fastcgi.connect:

port: /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock

#port: /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock

type: unix

file.index: [ 'index.php', 'index.html' ]

access-log: /var/log/h2o/access-log

error-log: /var/log/h2o/error-log

pid-file: /var/run/h2o/pid

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Sunday afternoon on Soi Nana

October 23, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

Decided to grab the camera and get out of the condo for a few hours yesterday. Headed down to Soi Nana, great people watching there. For the uninitiated, Sukhumvit Soi 4 (aka Soi Nana) is one of three red-light districts in Bangkok. Home to Nana Plaza (go-go bars), it also houses a number of beer bars along the soi which tend to be busy most of the time. Sat in Hillary 4 and then went across the road to Hooters and tried to get a handful of decent pictures. This guy has decided to stop and pose for a photo….

Sunsets are great

October 22, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

25th Feb 2012 – The sun sets over the Nan river in Phitsanulok, Thailand One of the best photos I’ve taken, IMHO. EXIF Data Make Canon Model Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS Aperture 4.5 Exposure Time 1/125 (0.008 sec) Lens ID Unknown 6-18mm Focal Length 14.3 mm Flash Auto – Did not fire File Size 1568 kB File Type JPEG MIME Type image/jpeg Image Width 3264 Image Height 2448 Encoding Process Baseline DCT – Huffman coding Bits Per Sample 8 Color Components 3 X Resolution 180 Y Resolution 180 YCbCr Sub Sampling YCbCr4:2:2 (2 1) YCbCr Positioning Centered Date and…

We’re back

October 20, 2017
By: TheCra1gster

Did ya miss me? Nah, thought so Redhat was a great little home for the first year or so of my blog, but I wasn’t surprised when they announced they were shutting it down and forcing peeps to migrate to a paid tier. I’m hitching my horse to the A2 post for a while. Shelling out a grand total of USD 10 per month for unmanaged VPS hosting. They hand you a VM running Ubuntu 16.04. The rest is up to you.. Unmanaged = you install and setup everything I had to setup the following to get the blog back…

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