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xmas is a time for pie and egg nog!

Poor guy, doesn’t seem to want to be at the party though…

Festive trooper

Frosty the snow man!

A laser turret, ready to defend our forces!

A B2 Super Battle Droid

This is the second B2 Super Battle Droid we’ve been given, the first one was on Day 21 of the 2012 Star Wars Advent Calendar 🙂

A young man off to the post office

So, the last couple of years I’ve been posting the Advent Calendar set of the day from the LEGO Star Wars and LEGO City box sets. The most mind-numbing part of this was creating the page and tagging it each day, so this year I decided to pre-populate the system with the posts ahead of time.

I leveraged some information on the net and a terrible PHP script, listed below. Whatever you do, I wouldn’t recommend using this on a production system without FIRMLY understanding what’s going on 🙂

In the process of locking down our servers we’ve been setting up host-based firewalls on one of our internal FTP servers.

The default thing was to deny access to everything but ICMP and SSH, good start.

Our first command was to only allow a given host access to port 21, FTP:

sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -s 10.1.2.3 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

This allows the client to connect: