Title: OpenWRT on WD router. Date: 2016-03-08 09:05 Slug: OpenWRT install Authors: Reese Summary: OpwnWrt on cheap router Very impressed with how easy to install and stable OpenWRT has been so far. I have not pushed much data through it yet but the install was painles and quick. I expected to have to setup the router first in terminal. I say this only because when I googled OpenWRT I never seen any screenshots. This could be seen as intimidating for some users I’d think. Heck I have not even logged into the router via SSH yet but I did turn it on. I like the way the menues are setup very simple and clean. I’m not sure if there is a package manager like pFsense. I bought two of thests WD Mynet N600 on sale for $9.99 on http://www.woot.com. Very cool how they always show drink mixes on the terminal after you login. I’m not a drinker but I like the ascii art. On some of my systems I like piping fortune into the login. Takes me back to http://www.slackware.com.

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Title: osTicket Date: 2017-04-07 15:00 Authors: Reese Summary: Getting organized Cover: http://osticket.com/sites/default/files/osticket-supsys-sm.png I have always been the type to have twenty projects going at the same time, and Ideas for more. It’s been hard keeping up with all my projects and goals. I started thinking about using ticket software for at home stuff. If it works good in the office why can’t it at home? I currently have osTicket running in a FreeBSD jail. I am still running FreeNAS 10.2, not updated to the Corral release train yet. I’ll give it some more time for the quicks and edge cases to get worked out. Sure that I’ll have a blog post about my upgrade when that day comes. Currently I’m researching and planning the best option to move all my vm’s and jails from one Virtualbox into bhyve or docker. ...

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Title: Overwatch Date: 2017-11-29 12:58 Slug: overwatch Authors: Reese Summary: New team fps from Blizzard. Cover: https://d3hmvhl7ru3t12.cloudfront.net/img/share/heroes-c08aa560b2f9c15ffaaa5f81446e8902734065ba71b1251af24e150857bc2f8d57bea402102296978eacde2577a33bafe813511f382c330356ce33f4204405ed.jpg I have started playing Overwatch

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Title: Release a plenty Date: 2016-03-24 15:25 Slug: releas-a-plenty Authors: Reese Summary: Update Someone told me that while doing freebsd-update they had the option for 10.3. I have not tried this yet to confirm or deny. Also a OpenBSD 5.9 was released. I ordered the cdrom to support the project a while ago. It has not came in the mail yet. Undeadly has more details on it here. As of writing this on 3/31/2016 my OpenBSD uptime on 5.8 is, 12:31PM up 127 days, 15:57, 1 user, load averages: 0.51, 0.48, 0.51.

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Title: RF and more Arduino Date: 2016-06-26 14:35 Slug: rflayer0 Authors: Reese Summary: More Arduino labs and SDR RF fun. SDR and Arduino I have got my SDR back out, the local repeaters have been pretty active. I seem to keep hearing the same people. Had a strom come in and they gave good updates. I got out my HamItUp Upconverter and heard some traffic on the HAM bands. I did this lab it was very cool messing with analog inputs. I also learned what a potentiometer is. I did a couple more labs and now I’m done with CIRC-09. Reversing the code in this one was fun it let me turn it into a night light. ...

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Title:Security+ Exam Date: 2016-03-24 15:25 Slug: pass-or-fail Authors: Reese Summary: Pass or Fail? Will I regret waiting till the last day to study for Security+ exam? Update 3/25/2016 I got a 659 score, the passing score was 750. I should have preppared more for this. Now I feel that I must retake it and get some redemption. I was overconfident in my skills. Well it’s Friday and the sun is shining. Now what will I hack on this weekend?

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Title: sed Date: 2016-11-30 12:00 Authors: Reese Cover: http://cdn.computerhope.com/linux/sed.gif I just found a cool way to find and replace with sed. I wanted to change the name of my author for my blog posts from trexor to Reese with one swoop. I was not going to make a post on this but found a intricacy between GNU/Linux and FreeBSD’s sed. Figured I would just for notes for myself or anyone that locates this. Below are the examples of the differences. ...

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Title: SNMP Fun Date: 2016-11-27 18:00 Authors: Reese Summary: SNMP for all Cover: http://terraltech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/snmp.png?76a024 #Cacti For quite some time on the podcasts I listen to I’ve heard talk about server monitoring for example Nagios and Zabbix. Having no experience in this and it sounded pretty intriguing. I created a fresh jail on my FreeNAS Mini and got busy. Not knowing where to start I did a google search for network monitoring. I seen a lot of information about Cacti and it seemed to be a good starting point. ...

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Title: OpenSuse Tumbleweed Date: 2016-04-10 07:05 Slug: distrohopping Authors: Reese Summary: Distrohopping Over the past year the distros I’ve ran on my laptop have been a path of. Ubuntu - Unity crashed as much OR more then Windows. Arch - I messed this install up and figured I’d try something new to replace it. I still have the backups if I need to go back. Fedora - I could not get Fedora to suspend to disk. Great system just would not suspend. OpenSuse Tumbleweed - I have managed to get everything working as expected mostly. The only issues that I seem to be having are getting networking working in KVM using the frontend virt-manager. Update 4/18/2016 I figured out the networking issue. I had the KVM guest on it’s own isolated network. Once I setup the the ip range on a 10.0.0.0 network and dns everything worked fine!

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Title: Fathers Day Date: 2016-06-19 23:05 Slug: more-arduino Authors: Reese Summary: Finally got Neopixel LEDS going also more labs reo speedwagon. Over this long weekend I have managed to update my FreeNAS from 9.3 stable into 9.19 stable. First pFsense got o

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