travel Marrakech in the Kingdom of Morocco The origins of this post come from a team presentation we were asked to do. Since I hadn't really made a proper recap of my last travel, I figured why not hit a few stones at once. Some background Where to begin to describe this amazing place? The
AIL Project Analysis Information Leak (AIL) Project - Proxmox VE Installation in LXC First attempt. For compatibility reasons I went with using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) as this project appears to be about 4-years old now. The problem with this, however, is that tlsh has a functional build dependency to use CREATE_LINK which was only introduced in CMake 3.14.
Mikrotik Exploring a used MikroTik CCR1036-8G-2S+ Tile-GX was a chip product from the Tilera Corporation which eventually shutdown in 2014 when it was purchased by EZchip Semiconductor which then merged will Mellanox Technologies in 2016 and went on to be purchased by Nvidia in 2019. Linux dropped official kernel support for Tile in 2018, but the
tracking Deep and Dark Web Monitoring When it comes to little boogeyman terms online we often hear about the deep web or the dark web. These terms are often interchanged, and that's alright when trying to simplify things. However, one most note that over-simplification is akin to saying that a thunderstorm and a deluge
Pi-hole Pi-Hole and AdGuard Blocking Performance These are the stats of running an ad-blocker as your primary and secondary DNS. Based on the resolved domains it appears that the IoT devices have been calling back home a bunch of times. We have a lot of Google devices, Ubiquiti wireless access points in a mesh, and the
UniFi UniFi AP Firmware: Latest vs Stable - Part II Let me start by posting these snapshots while I write down the rest of this blog post in draft. The best place to get the latest and archived firmware is from the offical UniFi Download site, but if you don't mind picking up Version 6.2.39 for
UniFi UniFi AP Firmware: Latest vs Stable - Part I As of this writing I'm now rocking an older firmware version. That's usually not a good thing to say. But, let me explain. Until recently I'd been running dual Network Applications via a virtualized version as my Mainline while Testing out UniFi Protect features
PowerEdge Manage Dell PowerEdge Fan Noise The original post that I used as a reference to do this on my bunch of R620 and R720xd appears to be missing from search now. Regardless, I'm throwing up a list of options here with the same idea, even a ChatGPT generated option for those wanting to
OpenWrt Bulk Upgrading OpenWRT Packages There's a useful thread over at StackExchange that lists options one has to make this happen. Note that blindly doing this vs selectively updating packages will have some unintended consequence of using up more space than is required. My own workaround here is to remove all the unnecessary
Proxmox List of Virtualization Tips and Tricks This blog isn't at the point of having sections, yet. As such I've considered either posting a frequently updated list of pointers to useful stuff that has helped me along the way in my software and hardware virtualization journey on a budget. Also, the number of
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