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
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I couldn't find anything existing to lookup a specific TCP/UDP port, so I quickly created some messy bash functions. What I wanted is to have a simple command to lookup a specific TCP/UDP Port, and also to lookup a MAC-address -> manufacturer.

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In order to get this ...

I just recently started to play around with software RAID's under linux, and I thought I'll share a piece of code to watch the progress of a raid-rebuild.

``` {.lang:sh .decode:true} || user@workstation ~ || while [ 1 ] ; do clear ; cat /proc/mdstat ; sleep 5; done

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1 ...

Just a quicky for today.. I could have sworn that there was a oneliner on commandlinefu.com (which is a great page btw!) to add a random album to MPD (Music Player Daemon), but I wasn't able to find it. So time to quickly build one on my own ...

In the age of multi-core CPU's, there's also a need for properly optimized application. Since the vast majority of the linux utilities only allow you to specify ONE input/output file, it's our job to script it to exhaust all the Cores.
When I got my first ...

In the past I've been using Gammu / Wammu to connect my mobile to my computer. One of the features I liked most, was the sms-export. It allows you to export into the native-gammu-format, into an .mbox file or directly upload it to an IMAP server. I kept exporting them ...