I had a project where I needed to reach out to a number companies to solicit bids for a catering contract. I found that sometimes the companies would expose their email addresses on their websites or have contact us forms. Email addresses directly on website, especially when they are readable by bots are a good way to get a large amount of spam, but it was quite helpful for this project.

The following was how Docker was added to Debian Bullseye using Ansible. This could be helpful when adding Docker to a fleet of servers. Otherwise it’s much easier to copy paste commands from the official Docker install documentation and save from creating unnecessary automation. Code for this project is on github at ansible-docker. A new Docker group The first step was to create a new role for Ansible, this was so Docker could be added to specific systems specified in the hosts file of the Ansible project that contained many other types of systems not related to Docker.

An issue came up where the output of a terminal window was needed after that terminal was closed. This unfortunate situation can come up during penetration tests or certification tests like the OSCP. Some investigation into options revealed the ancient and reviled script linux-util program. It records input, output, and timings to file that allow the terminal session view to be replayed or grepped at a later time. The program was added to the ~/.

A couple weeks ago I had installed VMWare Player to use the Offensive Security Kali Virtual Machine to go through the OSCP course. Upon installing the VM in VMWare player, I immediately began experiencing a bad issue on both my laptop and my desktop that I did not experience on my previous go-to desktop virtualization application Virtualbox. There was LAG Very bad input lag as seen below. The type of lag that kills productivity in a terminal window.

You probably don’t need a Wordpress blog, or a hosted website on Wix, Squarespace, or Weebly. I need to specify that you in this context is a human person, not a corporate thing with machiavellian corporate needs. Just a human that has a desire to publish musings on this great big thing called the internet. You likely don’t need to have comments. Let the comments be on another platform like Facebook, Twitter, email or wherever else you waste your life away.