I’m frequently required to make test accounts on various systems. I need to create passwords that are obnoxiously long and complex many times in a day. My method for creating those passwords requires OpenSSL to be installed on my workstation: ...
Year: 2014
(Updated Sept 4, 2014) As someone who has worked in web hosting, I’ve had my eye on just about every web-based control panel ever created. Most people will likely think of cPanel when they hear the phrase “server control panel” and ...
It never fails. At the last two or three characters of a password, I’ll strike two keys at the same time. Maybe I pressed both, maybe I only pressed one. Whatever happened, certainly it doesn’t make any sense to press ...
This is more of a note to myself than anything, but I bumped against an annoying limitation for my Rackspace hosted email accounts. The backstory is that I have a single business domain that has both Hosted Exchange and Hosted Rackspace ...
Screen. I love it and you should too. Unless you like tmux, in which case you probably nag me all the time on Twitter to switch to BSD. If you use it all the time then you undoubtedly have a ...
The Problem When using GNU screen and hitting tab, tab completion is not performed but rather a cryptic message is printed at the bottom of your terminal: Wuff ---- Wuff!!Wuff ---- Wuff!! If you hit tab a second time in ...
You might be familiar with Scott Pack, security monkey extraordinaire, as the author of several blog posts on The Nubby Admin. You can find him across the internet: Twitter: https://twitter.com/packscott LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/packscott Github: https://github.com/packs Stack Exchange: http://stackexchange.com/users/12890/scott-pack Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+ScottPack And now Scott has his own ...
If you like to run or cycle, then you probably know what Strava is. If you like to run or cycle and don’t know what Strava is, you’re missing out! In one sentence, it allows you to map and track ...
I have a client with an ActionTec M1000 modem running firmware QA02.5-3.60.3.0.8.6-M1000. It’s on a business CenturyLink DSL line and routes for five public IP addresses. For ease of writing, I’m going to use 1.1.1.1 through 1.1.1.5 to refer to the ...
I write lots of documentation. It’s what I do. If I can’t automate something for a client, or make it any easier, I attempt to write the cleanest, clearest, most concise documentation possible. I use screenshots, arrows, highlighting, I’ll even ...
