One of the most common questions I get when talking about running servers at home is, how loud is it? So in this video I give a quick demonstration comparing my mild gaming desktop to my home server rack consisting Continue reading
In this post I want to talk about the basics of using the Metasploit Framework that is included on the latest version of Kali Linux. If you don’t already know the Metasploit Framework is a project that makes writing and Continue reading
In this video I show my newest method of cooling my server rack, which so far has proved to work extremely well! I got this idea after seeing some video and pictures of newer data centers keeping the hot and Continue reading
An updated version of this post can be found here: Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) – Windows Server 2016 What is an ELK stack and why would you want one in your environment? Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) Continue reading
Update – 2.1.2016 – I would really only use this as a last resort and I highly recommend testing this solution prior to putting it into production. At this time it does not appear that all of SQL’s features fully Continue reading
Update – 2.2.2016 – The ciphers originally listed in this post no longer work to fix the obsolete cryptography warning as Google has upped the requirement from DHE with AES_128_GCM to ECDHE with AES_128_GCM or CHACHA20_POLY1305. The only ciphers we Continue reading
This is my cheat sheet for sending E-Mail through a SMTP Server. This is particularly useful when configuring and testing a new SMTP server. PowerShell: Send-MailMessage -SMTPServer hostname -To youremail@domain.com -From none@none.com -Subject “This is a test email” -Body “This Continue reading
So I recently switched carriers (Sprint is awesome!) and picked up a Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Surprisingly my previous phone, a Motorola Droid 3, made it the whole 2 yrs and still worked perfectly. Normally I just sell my old Continue reading
One of the first steps you should do when deploying a new public facing web server is hardening your server’s SSL/TLS connections. Disabling vulnerable protocols, ciphers, hashes and key exchange algorithms can help mitigate the now more common exploits like Continue reading
Running your own Minecraft server is a great way to share your games and connect with friends. In this video I cover some of the basics how to configure and get a Minecraft server up in no time. The server Continue reading