Linux Firewalling in 2021 and a Gentle Introduction to NFTables Part II

Linux Firewalling in 2021 and a Gentle Introduction to NFTables Part I

Getting the Centos8 AMI ID from AWS cli - the free one

I quite often need to be able to convert hex to binary for my MegaDrive assembly writing and a command line calculator would be useful for doing this - I've never really got on with BC.

I came across zcalc which is part of zsh. It can be enabled with

autoload …

My current status of running opensuse Tumbleweed on the UK version of the Huawei Matebook D.

Summary

Out the box leap15.1 and tumbleweed ~July 2019 works pretty well. The biggest annoyance being the inconsistent suspend when I shut the lid or when I run systemctl suspend sometimes it will …

I very rarely buy new laptops but after having received a new laptop at work with a 1080p screen I was really struggling to enjoy working on my trusty X250.

Somewhat on a whim, I thought I would get myself a Huawei figuring that they would be cheap because of …

With the recent purchases of my JVC X'eye, I dug out my old USB CD Burner and burnt a few games only to find the audio produced pops and hissing.

Turns out you need to use --swap to "Swap the byte order of all samples that are send to the …

JSON seems to be the goto text format these days.  I wasn't a massive fan because I think YAML is nicer to read and XML I still think is great (think XPATH, XSTL etc) albeit not very hipster

Anyway, tools are what tends to make a technology IMHO and JQ …

Ansible - Getting a list of IP addresses for a specific group