This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
This tutorial will show you how to make a Raspberry Pi hack tool by installing Kali on the Raspberry Pi – by the end of this guide you will have a Kali Raspberry Pi hacking tool with lots of tools ready for use! Install Kali on the Raspberry Pi Following Read more…
At work we had a mac mini 2014 that needed an ssd harddrive upgrade. This post has a short video and some info on the process documenting how to remove the harddrive from a 2014 mac mini and install an ssd. You will need a few tools: guitar plectrum (to Read more…
Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – prereq’s a usb hub a usb flashdrive a usb mouse a usb wifi adaptor (at least for the initial setup) Download blackarch from https://blackarch.org/downloads.html write to a usb drive (I used Etcher to do this part) Plug into chuwi and boot – Press F7 Read more…
This is a short tutorial on dual booting windows and Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. Updated for Kali 2018.4 When I first wrote this post I seriously wouldn’t have recommended Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro as an every-day system – Starting with 2018.01 and the 4.14 kernel it Read more…
Automatic updates in kali (and other apt based distros). There are a ton of ways to do automatic updates in kali linux (though this will work on debian, ubuntu, proxmox and any other apt-based system): 1) unattended-upgrades 2) a cron script 3) cron-apt This post will go through the various Read more…
There are a couple of different ways to install php7 on centos7 – Installing yum-plugin-replace and inline-replaceing the whole php subsystem seems to be the easiest way: You need to have a couple or yum repo’s enabled for this to work properly: webtactic and epel rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh Read more…
yum-cron is an alternate interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron. It provides methods to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates. Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the different functions of yum cron can Read more…
My New HomeLab Gigabyte Brix – 8 GB HyperX DDR3 ram for now (another 8GB on its way) Another 8GB has been ordered, bringing me up to 16gb. I’ll be upping the available ram for my Kali install and upgrading my windows 8 to windows 10! – 16GB usb drive Read more…
West Highland Way. after we had packed we fetched our things from the drying house. everything was dry, except my boots :| should have kept them in the hobbit house, so we sat about for an hour with my boots under the hobbit heater till they were barely dry. we Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpunit in centos using pear or composer. I prefer using composer as its mega easy to add lots of cool stuff and keep it all updated. Install phpunit in centos with composer. Firstly, If you don’t have composer, then you’ll need to Read more…
I upgraded from lion to mountain lion on my Macbook air 2012. This is how I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a 2012 macbook air. As soon as I installed mountain lion I instantly noticed that the battery life was terrible. Instead of 8-9 hours I was getting Read more…
If your audio midi setup takes an age to load, and you get the message ‘the midi server cant be opened’ it might be to do with protools. i run protools 8 and osx lion. everything worked fine if I was plugged into my protools interface, but when the interface Read more…
I have a western digital mybook world. it has timemachine support so that I can use it as a backup drive. i run osx lion. out of the box the mybook world doesnt support it properly though. it does work perfectly with snow leopard. to get the NAS to work Read more…
Networking the laptop to play games with a null modem cable! now that I knew computers could talk to each other I started to find things everywhere, a few years had passed and doom was out. there was now a computer shop in my town, and I had failed at Read more…
This is a short nessus tutorial to help you get to grips with nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner. Nessus can scan your assets for network security vulnerabilities. Nessus allows you to be proactive in securing your base so that all your base belongs to you :D Nessus tutorial quick Read more…
Iphone 4 left handers. I’m glad I didnt rush out and get an iphone4. I’m left handed. That means I cant use it. why did apple design it with the antenna at the bottom? would the top not be the first place? well, it totally depends on the layout of Read more…
Well, the F1 season is all but over. Im watching the qualifying for the brazilian GP. I suddenly thought that have not really tried to get any cool f1 stuff fro my ipod touch. time to scour the net. im writing this as I scour. I have found this – Read more…
A few things went wrong today. well, not exactly wrong, just not the way I had expected. we got a message from mcaffee saying that their copy of nessus had found that we were running apache < 2.2.9 – which we were, so it was time for us to update Read more…
Well, ive been looking into protools 8 there are a few cool features – things that cubase and others have had for a long time, but that make protools at least able to compete now =) the score editor looks nice – play your midi into protools as usual, and Read more…