2014 on Ricky Moorhouse

Great South Run 2014

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:49:30 +0000

Great South Run weekend is here! Today we had the 5k run which Laura, Anne and Des took part in and all did very well, and Abi's 1.5k Mini Run - even Jessica was enjoying running on the race track they had there and is keen to do the mini run next time round.

Now all that's left is my one tomorrow - I'm going to be running the 10 mile Great South Run for the first time to raise money for gain. If the technology works you should be able to watch live at http://runkeeper.com/user/rickymoorhouse and you can sponsor me at http://justgiving.com/rickymoorhouse . I'll update this again tomorrow after the race!

Disabling SSLv3

Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:11:17 +0000

With POODLE the time has come to disable SSLv3 everywhere. There will be clients that break and need fixing but it needs doing. You can read more details and background on the vulnerability.

Here's a few useful snippets from my experience with it this week:

Apache

Make sure the combination you have for the SSLProtocol line disables SSLv2 and v3 - something like: SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3

DataPower

Ensure your crypto profiles have SSLv2 and v3 disabled in the options line:

Traffic Pi

Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:23:54 +0000

Using my Raspberry Pi, Piglow and the traffic API feeds I have created a script to give me a visual representation of the journey time to work. This gives me an idea of the traffic before I leave the house in the morning, or so that when I'm working at home I can look at it and see how glad I am that I'm not sitting in traffic on the way to work :)

Review of Elasticsearch Server 2nd Edition

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:24:54 +0000

Elasticsearch Server Second Edition is a good book to read if you're getting started with Elasticsearch or considering using it. It goes through all the main areas of getting your data indexed and then searching and analysing it.

The book is well written and easy to read through and serves well as a reference guide to refer back to later. It has helped me get an overview of some of the features of Elasticseach that I've not yet used, some of which I hope to explore in further depth following on from the examples in the book. All of the chapters in the book include useful references to sources for further information on the topic covered and for more in-depth coverage the authors recommend going on to read their other book, Mastering Elasticsearch which I hope to read as well as a follow on.

Recovering encrypted filesystems

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:25:55 +0000

Boot from Live CD / USB
Decrypt the filesystem

<code class="markdown">cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 <span class="emphasis">*hostname*</span>
</code>

Mount filesystems

<code class="sql">mount /dev/dm-2 /mnt
mount /dev/dm-3 /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
mount <span class="comment">--bind /dev /mnt/dev</span>
mount <span class="comment">--bind /sys /mnt/sys</span>
mount <span class="comment">--bind /proc /mnt/proc</span>
</code>

Enter chroot chroot /mnt

/etc/crypttab should have: sda5_crypt UUID=sda5_uuid