I had a project where I needed to reach out to a number companies to solicit bids for a catering contract. I found that sometimes the companies would expose their email addresses on their websites or have contact us forms. Email addresses directly on website, especially when they are readable by bots are a good way to get a large amount of spam, but it was quite helpful for this project.

The following was how Docker was added to Debian Bullseye using Ansible. This could be helpful when adding Docker to a fleet of servers. Otherwise it’s much easier to copy paste commands from the official Docker install documentation and save from creating unnecessary automation. Code for this project is on github at ansible-docker. A new Docker group The first step was to create a new role for Ansible, this was so Docker could be added to specific systems specified in the hosts file of the Ansible project that contained many other types of systems not related to Docker.

An issue came up where the output of a terminal window was needed after that terminal was closed. This unfortunate situation can come up during penetration tests or certification tests like the OSCP. Some investigation into options revealed the ancient and reviled script linux-util program. It records input, output, and timings to file that allow the terminal session view to be replayed or grepped at a later time. The program was added to the ~/.

A couple weeks ago I had installed VMWare Player to use the Offensive Security Kali Virtual Machine to go through the OSCP course. Upon installing the VM in VMWare player, I immediately began experiencing a bad issue on both my laptop and my desktop that I did not experience on my previous go-to desktop virtualization application Virtualbox. There was LAG Very bad input lag as seen below. The type of lag that kills productivity in a terminal window.

Here is how I used ranger to add a filetag to org files in a fast and efficient way. I used this when I had to retroactively tag a bunch of org-roam files after a decision to split up my roam files in a different way. It makes adding a tag easy and fast! I modified hundreds of files in just a few minutes, files that I could not pragmatically modify due to no consistency in their content.

In this post, we’re going to learn how to migrate network shares using Windows command prompt commands for fast share migration. Often the data in Windows shares outgrow the underlying hard disk space and need to be migrated to new, larger hard drives. This post will show how to do just that, FAST! This is for modern Windows versions with modern Powershell, like Windows 10 and Server 2016 and above. Might work on earlier version (certainly the CMD commands will), but I have not tested it on End of Life versions (will probably work on 2012 R2).

You probably don’t need a Wordpress blog, or a hosted website on Wix, Squarespace, or Weebly. I need to specify that you in this context is a human person, not a corporate thing with machiavellian corporate needs. Just a human that has a desire to publish musings on this great big thing called the internet. You likely don’t need to have comments. Let the comments be on another platform like Facebook, Twitter, email or wherever else you waste your life away.