The slow decline to something better

  • Gateway Process and the Law of One

    While I’ve read the Law of One years ago, I can’t say I got much out of it. But I wanted to link up to it and the Gateway process. The Gateway process I found rather interesting even though I’ve not gone through them. When the CIA make a classified assessment then you know your…

  • Quantum Fiber, Archer BE550, Pi Ubuntu, Apache2, Lets encrypt

    I’ve been running my old WordPress site on AWS’s LightSail for years now, but now that AWS is charging for IPv4 addresses the cost has doubled and I’m tired of paying for it. So this weeks project has been to transfer my diditalsos.com to digitalsos.net and get it running on a raspberry Pi. More challenging…

  • Is NASA using entangled particle quantum communication?

    I’m only halfway through this but it seems to shatter my previous assumptions on what NASA is doing. https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/a-curiosity-of-spirit-full-document/ AstroEngineer’s Blog The stories of my slow path to awakening. Home About Guide to Anonymous & Evidenceless Internet Preface I am publishing this story somewhat hastily in response to the hue and cry on the Above Top…

  • OpenVPN ConfigQuery

    Just a quick note on setting the security for OpenVPN. To disable the older cyphers you can use QueryConfig in the command line. For our AWS Ec2 instance I simply used this line: Then confirm with: Finally restart the service:

  • Denyhosts on CentOS

    In general, I install fail2ban and denyhosts on all of my external linux servers that have port 22 open.  This is generally only because sftp is also installed on these systems because marketing people don’t know any other options like S3 on AWS. I want to point out the files that need to be looked…

  • netdom join Error 53, Error 2, DNS is correct. Windows 2012 R2 doesn’t like /ou

    We have been using a script for years that will join a Windows system to our domain.  Now with 2012 R2 it never executed.  And this was not a DNS issue.  Ping your DC’s with the friendly name from the system first and if they resolve you are good. At first I thought was an…

  • JDBC connector to MSSQL 2014

    YAFD (Yet another fucking developer) that needs to use java to connect to YAFDB (Yet Another Fucking DataBase). So start off and install Oracle java JRE 8 on your sql server.  Then go here and get the latest Microsoft JDBC Driver, 4.2 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11774 Go to your control Panel –> System and Security –> System. Click…

  • Ubuntu SNMP config for Zabbix and Checkpoint

    I’m setting up SNMP monitoring for our Checkpoint devices in AWS and Zabbix needs the SNMP client configured.  A good tutorial is located here: But adding the templates for checkpoint was more involved than I thought.  I grabbed the templates here: https://share.zabbix.com/network-appliances/checkpoint-fw-1-hardware. Then created the mapping by going to Administrator –> General –> On the…

  • Build bitcoind from source Fedora 22

    Disclaimer – this does NOT work.  It’s close, but no love. As usual there are no good instructions on the net to do this. First get the source, I already had git installed and I’m actually building Feathercoin instead of bitcoin but it should be the same for both.  Also I’m presuming that you already…

  • Moving AD groups from one domain to another using ldifde

    This is something that I almost never do so I’m documenting it here to avoid future mistakes. We are migrating between domains and while we considered ADMT, there was too much clutter and our AD structure changed.  So a piece meal approach was decided on.  Hint to future self, don’t do this again, use ADMT!…

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