Aug 6, 2021Checking For Outdated CiphersKeeping the software up-to-date on your machine is important and evermore so for security reasons. However, some people forget to update their configurations when they update their software. Running an old config could be just as dangerous as running old software! I am going to show how to check a…Linux5 min readLinux5 min read
Feb 5, 2021Portable GitLab — GitLab In An LXD ContainerGitLab is an entire DevOps lifecycle tool with a web-based interface. Within the GitLab platform we are provided with a git-repository manager, wiki, issue-tracking, integration, and deployment pipelines and best of all it is all open source software! It also makes for a great, self-hosted replacement for GitHub. There are…Linux8 min readLinux8 min read
Feb 4, 2021Stop Hogging All The Bandwidth! How To Put A Leash On Netflix, Disney+, and All The Other Hogs With Linux Rate Limiting/Bandwidth ThrottlingIt’s like a scene from an American western: you have a gigabit connection (The Good), a couple of heavy users (The Bad), and a monthly bandwidth limit (The Ugly.) In this strange new world of working from home you need a an Internet connection that has good bandwidth (speed) and…Linux7 min readLinux7 min read
Jan 14, 2021How to keep your ports private — Port knocking with knockdHow to keep your ports private — Port knocking with knockd In this article we will be looking at knockd, a port knocking tool, and how we can utilize it on our bastion/firewall server. This guide can be used for a production Linux server or our home Linux-based router. The concepts are the same as well as the purpose. There are…Linux Tutorial7 min readLinux Tutorial7 min read
Feb 1, 2020Review: GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext Travel Router and EasyTetherI, along with my family, like to travel several times a year. The type of traveling varies — sometimes it is somewhere within a day or two driving distance and other times we take the a flight to somewhere more distant and stay longer. This is possible because I am…Linux6 min readLinux6 min read
Jul 3, 2017Turning /etc Into A Git Repo With etckeeperIt is often desirable to turn /etc into a file repository on our servers, whether it be for production or development purposes. There is a great tool named etckeeper that automates pushing changes to a repo for us. That is, once we have it set up and do an initial…2 min read2 min read
Apr 17, 2017Dual ISPs or How To Survive Out In The SticksSo you are living in a remote area that has poor Internet connectivity options and you are a nerd that can’t survive off of a single slow DSL connection. What can one do?! Well with an older computer, three NICs, and a little help from our favorite Linux distro we…7 min read7 min read
