/Ramblings of a Aussie Sysadmin and Coder 2022-04-24T17:50:29+10:00 Simon Coggins / Jekyll © 2022 Simon Coggins /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2014-05-04T09:00:00+10:00 2014-05-04T09:00:00+10:00 /posts/internet-connected-weather-station/ Simon Coggins

I’ve been wanting an internet connection weather station for awhile so I can check on things via my phone. For my birthday this year I decided to do it. I ended up using off the shelf oregon scientific hardware. Mostly because Australian Geographic had the internet relay station on sale for 50% off. Here is how it’s configured. I have a Oregon Remote Access Weather Station LW302 but if you hav...

2012-12-11T09:00:00+10:00 2012-12-11T09:00:00+10:00 /posts/config-files-and-git-source-control/ Simon Coggins

Where I work we have a lot of people editing configuration files for various different things, DNS, Nagios etc. So to stop conflicts and also to ensure that all changes are tracked and we can reverse any changes done we put our configurations into git. To ensure that everyone checks the data in and adds a comment, I wrote a small wrapper script for “edit”. This script allows people to set thei...

2012-10-17T09:00:00+10:00 2012-10-17T09:00:00+10:00 /posts/printing-time-deltas-in-human-readable-format-for-python/ Simon Coggins

From time to time I want to be able to log time deltas in a way that is easy for me to read. I normally write my own code to do this. But the other day I figured there must have been an easier way. Turns out there is. import datetime print(datetime.timedelta(seconds=1234)) 0:20:34 The datetime module has a timedelta command in it that will do exactly what I wanted. So that saved me some time ...

2012-10-04T09:00:00+10:00 2012-10-04T09:00:00+10:00 /posts/insplunktion-finding-excessive-outgoing-emails-using-splunk/ Simon Coggins

One of the things that causes us no ends of issues where I work is people trying to phish usernames and passwords from our users. Every now and then one slips through the cracks and results in us having a compromised account. Normally we don’t know this until the user reports that all their email is gone and they can’t get any new email. I decided to make splunk actively monitor for compromise...

2012-09-25T09:00:00+10:00 2012-09-25T09:00:00+10:00 /posts/the-rapid-deployment-of-ios-6/ Simon Coggins

Apple has released another version of the iOS and again it amazes me how quickly the adoption rate of the OS is. You have to hand it to apple removing the carriers from the equation makes it so much easier to hand out new version of the OS without interference. I can’t claim this is a large sample size, but in the last 7 days, nearly 50% of the people who use my RainRadarAU have upgraded to iOS...