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LinkGrabber

I got the idea to make a small application to save web links from an IRC channel and list them on a web page. IRC botThe first part of the project was putting together a bot to sit in IRC and save links that

aws

AWS Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hook Management for Existing Applications

AWS Auto Scaling allows you to set simple rules for scaling up or down the number of EC2 instances in your environment but one possibly, unforeseen snag is that the Auto Scaling rules may try to downscale your instance before it has finished all

projects

Gracefully Stopping ESXI Host with USB UPS

Normally in an enterprise environment you could use something like PowerChute to allow a networked UPS to send out a signal letting your hosts know to shutdown gracefully before the battery runs out of power. At home though I just have a single VMware

error

Raspbian Stretch Lite ld.so.preload Error

Repurposing an old Raspberry Pi B+ and ran into an issue after imaging Raspbian Stretch Lite during the boot up and afterwards was barraged with a series of errors. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload

nginx

Blocking Bad Host and X-Forwarded-Host Headers in Nginx

HTTP message structure has 3 sections, the Start Line and then optional Header and Body. The Start Line contains the information about the type of message ( GET, POST, etc), the destination and HTTP version. The Header contains message metadata and the Body contains the

miscellaneous

Deciphering "How To Deconstruct Almost Anything"

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything by Chip Morningstar recounts "the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism." The story includes his speech, reworked to be overly dense opening statement, a joke about the language of literary criticism. The

nginx

Analyzing Most Common Bad Requests in Nginx Logs

2 years ago a user submitted a post to /r/sysadmin about a strange poem that showed up in a server's log. 151.217.177.200 - - [30/Dec/2015:00:54:40 -0500] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean.

projects

Extracting Text from DOS Binary

HyperHelper by Azarona Software is a shareware hypertext development systemThe program created a standalone DOS Binary from text with capabilities for Searching and Hyperlinks, similar to HTML. The only information I could find was an add in February 1992 Edition of PC Magazine. While

emulator

Editing XCOM 2 Save Files

XCOM 2: Terror from the Deep, the sequel to XCOM: UFO Defence was released by MicroPose in 1995. The game came on either on several 3.5" floppy disks or a single CD and ran in DOS. Recently Firaxis released a remake and a

projects

CarHole Follow Up

After getting the basic operation working with separate standalone scripts I decided to expand things a little. I added carhole.py which is a small Flask application. There are three routes, / just responds to normal GET request with a short string for testing. /operate

projects

CarHole: Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener

I have seen a lot of neat Raspberry Pi projects on the internet over the past few years. One that I always wanted to try was wiring it up to a Garage Door opener. After ordering and sitting on the parts forever I finally

error

AWS CLI and ZSH on MacOS Sierra

I recently ran into a couple of issues with the AWS CLI and ZSH on my Macbook. I installed the AWS CLI with Pip and it seemed to be working as expected after the configuration. The first issue I ran into was trying to

linux

Ubuntu 16.04 Monitor Issues and Resolution

I ran into an annoying interesting issue after installing Ubuntu 16.04. Even after adding the ppa and installing the latest Nvidia drivers, the Display tool couldn't detect any information about my primary monitor or the other two attached. Running xrandr only showed one

kodi

Kodi and LIFX Bulbs

The other day my friend sent me a link to this comic. Comic Credit: Commit Strip So I probably need to stop talking about my Kodi integration with my LIFX Bulb. This is actually something I had been interested in for a while since

nginx

Nginx Rewrite to Redirect All Requests to Root

Nginx return a single page while keeping the requested address

security

Surfboard Modems and Cross Site Request Forgery

A while back I wrote a script to restart my Motrola SB121 Cable Modem if it couldn't connect to Google. It worked by sending a GET request to 192.168.100.1 (the modem's default internal IP) for reset.htm. Today I saw an

security

Website Account Security

A lot of high profile breaches that have occurred exploited backend issues, but there have been plenty of high profile incidents that all came down to the attacker guessing the user's password or tricking them into giving it up. So as a security conscious

aws

AWS-CLI Unicode Error

I encountered this error when attempting to use the AWS CLI today and at first I couldn't find any help on the Internet. 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128) A lot of the discussion I found

kodi

Kodi Build

Kodi (formely known as XBMC) is an open source media center with a "10' interface designed for set top boxes and htpcs. The project originally started out as a mod for the original Xbox but has since dropped support for the xbox and greatly

projects

MinerMonitor

Bitcoins have always been something I have been interested in, and even after last years bubble, Bitcoin prices are still well above pre-bubble prices. The middle of the bubble also coincided with the announcement of several companies building ASICs hardware purposed for mining, which

network

Network Diagram

A quick overview of my home network as it currently stands. PFSense is the gateway router, running on a Mini ITX white box. The new build was to replace my Soekris Net4501 running M0n0wall when my ISP inscreased my bandwidth and the Elan cpu

projects

rot.js Tutorial

rot.js is a set of JavaScript libraries for developing in browser roguelikes. rot.js is based on libtcod another roguelike library I did a tutorial for in Python a while ago. Going through that tutorial really helped illustrate a lot of OOP concepts,

projects

ModemRestart

Occasionally I have connection issues and have to restart my cable modem. This is most likely due to the signal strength being just under the recommended minimum, due to the signal running over the old RG-59 coaxial cable that is installed in my house.

projects

Automating embedded device configuration with Telnet

Telnet, as a network protocol, has some drawbacks. First, and most importantly, nothing is encrypted. Everything is sent in plain text through the network for anyone to read. There is no authentication to ensure that the communications are between the two desired hosts and

projects

WorstBandEver

I had an idea for basic webapp that pulled two bands from a list and had the users compare them. For a while my old roommate and I would do this when we got burritos. Sometimes asking which is worse can be an interesting