2nd lockdown
Happy 2019
London stole the show for the 2019 new year firework display. Reportedly that 8 tonnes of fireworks were used. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-46727201/new-year-2019-london-counts-down-to-firework-display
IP address block/unblock via Cloudflare’
Cloudflare has upgraded their API to version 4 some while ago. https://api.cloudflare.com/#user-level-firewall-access-rule-properties I want to use the new APIs to block IP addresses using fail2ban. Using curl directly is a bit cumbersome, so I created a few php helper scripts. They can also be used in other projects. Thanks to andrieslouw at github https://gist.github.com/andrieslouw/3c833332cbf66f95ca6751f82013acf5 I didn’t […]
nfsidmap segfault
Recently I have seen an Ubuntu 16.04 server producing segfaults errors in kern.log and dmesg. It was traced to a process calls nfsidmap May 22 03:36:56 penguinoserver1 kernel: [241227.277964] nfsidmap[28966]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f2471ff6ad3 sp 00007ffc480fa048 error 4 in libc-2.23.so[7f2471f6d000+1c0000] May 22 03:36:56 penguinoserver1 kernel: [241228.117058] nfsidmap[28970]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f044aa31ad3 sp 00007fff80f0a998 […]
Adobe Photoshop Elements problem in Wind...
After applying Windows 10’s May 2017 Creators update, I found that my Adobe photoshop element’s menu bar has disappeared, and menu items were blank. Adobe was good enough to publish an unofficial fix: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2357293 Apply the following registry value, follow by a reboot. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\GRE_Initialize] “DisableFontBootCache”=dword:00000001