robots.txt
What is Robots.txt
robots.txt is a file placed at the root of a website requesting web crawlers not index parts of a website. This does not enforce this in anyway but is a defacto standard that most reputable search engines and web crawlers will respect.
How to add …
more ...DO Object Store with AWS CLI
In my day job I work with AWS's S3 extensively and use the AWS CLI for the majority of cli tasks.
When I started paying around with Digital Ocean's object store and found that it was S3 API computable the first thing that I wanted to test is if I …
more ...New Web Site Architecture
As may be clear I have rebuilt my website from wordpress to Jekyll. I will documenting the reasons for this change and how I designed this new site in this post.
Goals for move
- Reduce Costs
- Wordpress is a very Powerful CMS and so intern takes a good chunk of …
Setting up Lets encrypt
These are some quick notes from installing Let's encrypt on a Ubuntu server.
For anyone trying to do this I would recomend the Digital Ocean artical on this. DigitalOcean Let's Encrypt
Install applictions
apt install python-certbot-nginx letsencrypt
Modify nginx to add virtual host
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
server_name *.invoke.coffee …
Pfsense build
I think many people like me have been eyeing these Chinese made small x86 boards as potential routers.
Well i decided to be one on the brave and give one a shot. I have not seen many posts discussing these so I decided to add my voice to the discussion …
more ...Mazda 3 CMU Hacking
I recently purchased a mazda 3 2016 and one of the things that I was most excited with is the infotainment system.
I am planning on a serious of posts detailing my journey to hack and modify my infotainment system so far my priories are.
- Gain SSH access
- Disable speed …
ssh access – Mazda 3 CMU Hacking
First thing that you will need to do to start modifying the Mazda CMU is to gain SSH Access.
- You will need a compatible USB to Ethernet adapter.
- Here is the one that I used.
- Mazda hacks has some other options, http://mazda3hacks.com/doku.php?id=notes:sshnotes
- Connect …
Cisco Nexus AAA
I spent quite a bit of time integrating some nexus switches into Cisco ACS. So wanted to share a couple of notes. I will be talking a lot about NX-OS RBAC rolls so here is a good primer if you are not familiar with it.
http://routing-bits.com/2011/05 …
more ...Enforcing SSL/TLS
I started offering SSL/TLS on my site with lets encrypt beta certificates, now I wanted to move to enforcing SSL/TLS.
For this I will be using mod_rewrite.
First I enabled mod_rewite
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Then edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and add
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule …
SCCM 2012 DP Job Manager
I have been working with SCCM 2012 a lot lately and I run across a tool that has become invaluable for me.
Distribution Point Job queue manager
This is a part of the Config manager toolkit. What this allows you to do is view the status of the distribution manger …
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