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Aug 6, 2021

Checking For Outdated Ciphers

Keeping 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…

Linux

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Checking For Outdated Ciphers
Checking For Outdated Ciphers
Linux

5 min read


Feb 5, 2021

Portable GitLab — GitLab In An LXD Container

GitLab 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…

Linux

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Portable DevOps Platform — GitLab In An LXD Container
Portable DevOps Platform — GitLab In An LXD Container
Linux

8 min read


Feb 4, 2021

Stop Hogging All The Bandwidth! How To Put A Leash On Netflix, Disney+, and All The Other Hogs With Linux Rate Limiting/Bandwidth Throttling

It’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…

Linux

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Stop Hogging All The Bandwidth!
Stop Hogging All The Bandwidth!
Linux

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Jan 14, 2021

How to keep your ports private — Port knocking with knockd

How 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 Tutorial

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Linux Tutorial

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Feb 1, 2020

Review: GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext Travel Router and EasyTether

I, 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…

Linux

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Review: GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext Travel Router and EasyTether
Review: GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext Travel Router and EasyTether
Linux

6 min read


Jul 3, 2017

Turning /etc Into A Git Repo With etckeeper

It 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…

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Turning /etc Into A Git Repo With etckeeper
Turning /etc Into A Git Repo With etckeeper

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Apr 17, 2017

Dual ISPs or How To Survive Out In The Sticks

So 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…

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Dual ISPs or How To Survive Out In The Sticks
Dual ISPs or How To Survive Out In The Sticks

7 min read

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Ronald Farrer

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I am interested in various Computer Science topics. I Love Coffee! https://ko-fi.com/canutethegreat

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