At $dayjob I recently found this tool. https://lsc-project.org/doku.php Use case was a workaround to get our good old posixGroups into groupOfNames; because some tools like bitwarden on premise requires that members of the groups are DNs for them to be able to figure out who's member …

The other week I finally for this thing working I've been trying weakly to do every now and then when I had a few minutes free: send an alert before a toner runs out in a printer! Way back I set up SNMP_exporter to fetch metrics from switches. This worked …

if (doc['bytes.keyword'].size()!=0) { return Integer.parseInt(doc['bytes.keyword'].value) } This took me a while to figure out! The above only works for Integer (so no 1.1 or 2.22). It works on ELK 7.10 I needed it because I'm using %{COMBINEDAPACHELOG} GROK pattern. That …

Changing apartment again so a pretty decent time to change the network at home. Doing it a bit on the cheap this time around. We'll get a docsis cable connection. Fortunately I have a modem used to connect to the same ISP from a previous apartment. Unfortunately the modem was …

And I'm on holiday :) Wasn't really expecting to be able to go on holiday working for a startup, but there's some coverage and the old IT Admin is still there so very nice to be able to take time off and not have to worry. Even get some more later …

Was reminded that today was exactly one calendar month since I joined IQM Finland It's been a very hectic month and it's been mostly remote because of the pandemic. Have met a few people, video chatted with a few. We have these weekly lunch meetings that is a good way …

9 years were significant and meaningful to me. We did a lot of cool things that as a very nice side benefit helped research, both in Finland and in other places! I’ve been involved in some core projects, both for internal users and external ones. I was free to …

Wifi and PoE injector](images/DSC_1469-scaled.jpg) Some initial needful information Reset is done by holding MODE and then powering off and on the device Default enable password is Cisco Serial ttyUSB0 worked with one usb to rs232 and then a serial to RJ45 adapter, my cheapo ebay USB to …

In my youth I enjoyed the LANs. One fun game we played was Quadra - which is a multiplayer tetris where by playing the game you send more blocks to your opponents making it very stressful :D https://github.com/quadra-game/quadra turns out it is open source and it's out …

The challenges Hoe the season to be jolly! Been giving a few CTFs lately. It started with the disobey 2020 puzzle to get the hacker ticket. Then there was the OverTheWire's 2019 advent CTF. And finally this one, the SANS holiday hackmechallenge - KringleCon 2019. As of writing I got …