View Juniper SRX logs in Kibana (ELK)

Kibana is a powerful and flexible monitoring dashboard and tool for monitoring firewall activity. I find it essential to monitor these activities graphically as these logs are generally quite noisy a...

My new 67 TB storage arrays

For some time now I’ve wanted to move away from my QNAP NAS boxes. I have been tossing around with a number of ideas but this is what I finally came up with. Before we begin I must say that I h...

Restoring a 38TB NAS

During the last couple of months I have been without my 38TB NAS as it broke down on me. We all have equipment failures from time to time, we take (most of us anyways) relevant actions to prevent the...

My new hackintosh

It has only passed less than 8 months since I decided to move to the hackintosh world.  I have loved every minute of the time and have not really missed all my hours of game playing. It has been a fa...

Is Skype for Business on OSX ready?

Can an Apple user be as productive as an Windows user when relying on Skype For Business? I’d say that question would have, in 2011 been answered easier than today, 6 years later. Back then Lyn...

(update) Writing your own DNS rewrite backend

Recently I have played some time with my previous example (Writing your own DNS server backend) and have discovered that, for my use case this will not work, at all 🙁 Let me just go thought the case ...

Creating overlay on a 1080p HDCP HDMI signal

If you have ever seen the video overlay linear TV channels use to promote other program, mostly series and wanted to do that for yourself? Everyone who has been reading my blog about writing a Tivo r...

Writing your own DNS server backend

Have you ever wanted to manipulate DNS data on the fly like most CDN networks do, perhaps you have a specific reason to rewrite DNS data in your corporate network, for example in a split brain scenar...

Bygg din egen ComHem Tivo fjärrkontroll

Har du också tröttnat på att försöka få en bra överblick med alla diverse TV-sajter och EPG? Om du har Com Hem finns det ett annat sätt. Jag har länge undrat varför det ska vara så svårt att på ett e...