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Custom SSL Certificate for Security Onion Web UI
Dec 16, 2021 · 3 min read · SecurityOnion Homelab HTTPS SSL ·
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TL;DR These steps assume a certificate signed by your certificate authority of choice has already been generated. To install the certificate on the web UI of Security Onion (SO) you will need a certificate file and a private key file. Not that if you are accessing the web UI by IP address instead of FQDN, the IP …

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Getting around Dell iDRAC Java SSLHandshakeException
Sep 8, 2021 · 5 min read · Dell iDRAC Java error ·
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TL;DR The steps below assume network connectivity to iDRAC has been established. Follow the steps below to get past this error and launch the iDRAC console. Read on for the analysis that lead to these steps. Download avctKVM.jar from https://<your iDRAC IP/hostname here>/software/avctKVM.jar Edit the …

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hack-a-sat 2021: iq writeup
Jul 6, 2021 · 3 min read · hackasat ctf python ·
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Hack-A-Sat is a capture the flag style event with challenges related to space, space operations and space craft. The 2021 edition is the second time this challenge ran and its qualification round took place on the weekend of June 2021. Our team participated for fun and we were able to solve a few challenges. This post …

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Transmission container auto-add magnet links
Oct 1, 2020 · 2 min read · transmission container linux ·
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LinuxServer.io provides a docker image for the Transmission torrent client. The client can be configured to watch a directory and add torrents from files placed in that directory. Unfortunately transmission does not pick up torrents from *.magnet files stored in the watch directory. I wanted a quick way to drop a …

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Getting started with the SDK & Project Editor in MSFS 2020
Aug 26, 2020 · 2 min read · flightsim msfs2020 sdk ·
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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) is the latest release in the franchise which spans some 37 years. This release boasts impressive graphics employing satellite imagery from Bing maps acallylong with AI assisted automati generated scenery and buildings. I’ve sunk quite a number of hours into it already and it …

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Enabling HTTPS on GitLab plugin for FreeNAS
Aug 12, 2020 · 4 min read · FreeNAS GitLab SSL HTTPS homelab featured TrueNAS FreeBSD jail ·
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FreeNAS is a free and open-source operating system intended to be used on Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Based on FreeBSD, FreeNAS combines the features and services of a regular Unix-like operating system with the robustness of the OpenZFS filesystem. I built a FreeNAS box nearly five years ago and it has …

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Raspberry Pi SSH over Bluetooth
Dec 13, 2019 · 3 min read · raspberry pi ssh bluetooth ·
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This post was inspired by the write up about PITA from evilsocket where they describe a way to connect and SSH into a Raspberry Pi using Bluetooth. I decided to try to reproduce that part of the write up, ran into some issues but finally got it working. This has only been tested on a Pi Zero W so far but should work …

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Deploying Buscador on ESXi
May 24, 2019 · 1 min read · OSINT Buscador ESXi Virtualization ·
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Buscador is a Linux distribution created by David Westcott and Michael Bazzell of IntelTechniques to help with OSINT investigations. What Kali Linux is to penetration testing, Buscador is to OSINT and you can read abot the tools included on their site linked above. Both VirtualBox and VMWare images are provided in OVA …

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Start flight simulator with higher priority
Dec 4, 2014 · 4 min read · FSX FSX ATC process priority realtime priority flight sim ·
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A peculiar issue of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X is that at times ATC forgets to vector me in to my final destination leaving me cruising at 2000′ burning fuel going away from the airport. There are other troubles with the FSX ATC but this one will be the focus of this quick article. Before we go on please make …

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Saitek X55 Rhino conflicts with TeamSpeak client
Nov 30, 2014 · 1 min read · ghosting multiple keypresses saitek x55 teamspeak x55 ·
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I ran into some issues tonight with my Saitek X55 HOTAS: each key press was repeated instead of showing up just once. This made the aircraft systems uncontrollable and at least once it caused my computer to lock up. I couldn’t figure out what had changed since last week when everything was fine until I realized I …

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