I just was recently looking for a method to monitor a syslog server. But as per design, syslog works using UDP, so there's no real indication that a simple syslog message has made it through successfully. As I wanted to have this service monitored by Nagios, I was looking ...

I've just had a VMware ESXi 4.0 in front of me, which needed an upgrade. Not a big deal if you're able to find the right KB articles on their website...
OK, so here are the steps to upgrade a VMware ESXi 4.0 to a VMware ...

I've just been working with some xml's recently and was getting annoyed that I don't have any syntaxhighlighting on the bash stdout.. Ok, I can save it and let then vim open it, so I've got my syntax highlighting. Not what I want ;-) After a quick ...

Something that always bugged me, was the speed of the /dev/urandom device, which provides random data. I needed it to benchmark some network devices and urandom just wasn't fast enough for that :-D
Anyway, openssl provides also a way to generate some random data, which is much faster ...

last one for today :-D
Just got wfuzz out of my toolbox and let it mess with my sonicwall webinterface... And I've got surprising results ;-) There's a hidden page on each (? at least on a TZ 180/210), which lets you mess with the settings that the techies ...

Helloo!!

Voila, since a few weeks I'm a CSSA aka Certified Sonicwall Security Administrator ;-) Ok, nothing really exciting, but now it's time to start messing with these boxes, I would love to know what these boxes do, apart from the stuff that the webinterface tells me... :-p
Sonicwall ...