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?
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. ...
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. ...
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!
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