If you are starting from scratch with using Python and Boto3 to script and automate Amazon AWS environments, then this should help get you going. To begin, you’ll need a few items: 1) Download and install the latest Amazon AwsCli. The is the Command Line client for AWS. 2) You… Continue reading
This is my list of my most used chaining operators in Ubuntu. 1 . Semi-colon operator ; The semi-colon allows you to chain multiple commands so that they run in-order. # apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; echo ‘upgrades are done’ 2 . Single Ampersand & The single ampersand… Continue reading
This quick how-to steps you through a simple installation of OwnCloud to a Ubuntu 14.04 server. First, you need some prereqs: sudo apt-get install php5-gd mysql-server To begin, you need to add the repository for ownCloud for ubuntu 14.04. wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key apt-key add – < Release.key Next,… Continue reading
In other posts, I have installed SabNZBD, Sickbeard, and Couchpotato for auto downloading of TV and Movies. In this case, I wanted to use the same process to download Comic Book Files, CBRs, automatically based on created lists, have SABnzbd download them, and have them moved to a permanent folder… Continue reading
Updated for Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 03-15-18 Universal Media Server is a fork off the very useful PS3 and PS4 Media Server. And although the PS3MediaServer was a great solution, it did have some shortcomings, especially with certain file formats or file containers. I tried UMS and loved it. It… Continue reading
Couchpotato is an automatic NZBD downloader. Very similar to SickBeard in that it will watch newsgroups for NZBD files, download the NZBD, and hand the file off to SABNzbd, other download utility, or save it off to a directory so that the system can download the media. In this example,… Continue reading
Microsoft Windows 10 has some pretty intrusive data gathering built into the operating system. It collects anonymous and not-so-anonymous data from users of the Operating System. Today, MS released 4 Optional Updates to bring the Win 10 Style Telemetry and Data Gathering to previous versions of Windows. The 4 updates… Continue reading
This is a working strongswan ipsec config that can be used for a roadwarrior setup for remote users utilizing certificate based authentication instead of id/pw. This is a pure IPSEC with ESP setup, not L2tp. This is not 2 factor, it is cert only. To get started: sudo apt-get install… Continue reading
I’m putting this out there for anyone else. For the last 3 months I had a windows 2008 R2 server that would not apply windows updates. “An unknown error has occurred” is all I would get. This was fixed today. The cause seemed to be an Disk Filter applied to… Continue reading
In Microsoft Exchange OWA (outlook web access) a user will attempt to change the account password and encounter an error “The password supplied does not meet the minimum security requirements”. This error happens even though the GPO Policy has password complexity disabled. The cause of the error is the minimum… Continue reading
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 1: Amazon AWS Connectivity and Basic VPC Networking
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 2: AWS S3 Storage: Buckets, Files, Management, and Security
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