Category Archives: Training

This is all items related to my physical training.

Messing With Windows 7 Look

Posted on January 26, 2020 by larry

So I got Mint 19 to look like Windows 7. Hoping to get CentOS 7, my preferred distro to work. But with that said, Mint really looks like Windows 7. Will try a few things, will report back if I … Continue reading →

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New Toys In The House

Posted on January 25, 2020 by larry

I am wary, but we now got an Alexa in the house. It turns a couple of devices. Not sure how I feel yet. Also got my BLE devices all labeled up, now need to package them. Almost purchased another … Continue reading →

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Sleep Schedule Off Again

Posted on January 24, 2020 by larry

I stayed up to go to work early and watch them put up a bridge at work. But I regret it now, I am all off with my sleep. I have a feeling I will be asleep a lot tomorrow. … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up Some VMs

Posted on January 23, 2020 by larry

Been going through my inventory of VMs and I think there are a bunch that I can combine to decomm. Hoping to lower the amount of VMs I got running. Also looking at replacing some services with a rasperry pi. … Continue reading →

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Mint 7

Posted on January 22, 2020 by larry

Followed some instructions on getting Mint Linux to look like Windows 7 Kind of fun, I may make my laptop at work look like this. Weight: 297.0

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Vulnerability Scan Looks Better

Posted on January 21, 2020 by larry

There was this one vulnerability regarding DH 1024 bit strength. I got some instructions to fix it in and I thought I tried it, but it did not work. Apparently I had the settings wrong, but one change is I … Continue reading →

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Decomming Small Business Server

Posted on January 20, 2020 by larry

After over a decade of running Microsoft Small Business Server, I am officially decomming it. I have moved it to a secure location, blocked from the Internet, and I am spinning up a single VM that can access email if … Continue reading →

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Resolving Vulnerabilties

Posted on January 19, 2020 by larry

So the scanner got me a bunch of things that I need to work on. I got most of it resolved, but there were some like dhparms at 1024 bits and cleartext logins. Kind of hard to get the last … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability Scanning

Posted on January 18, 2020 by larry

Spent a nice chunk of the day scanning my forward facings systems with OpenVAS on Kali Linux. I lot of the vulnerabilities are due to weak ciphers. SSH, https, imaps, pops, smtps. From old SSLv3, TLS 1, and algorithms like … Continue reading →

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Saving Up Money

Posted on January 17, 2020 by larry

Every Friday is finance Friday, today I put some cash in to our savings account. Hoping it will be good and we will save up enough. By summer it will be interesting. Weight: 291.4

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