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Hell’s Kitchen

I’ve watched a few episodes of Hell’s Kitchen in my day and one thing that always got to me was how those poor schmucks just let Gordon Ramsey rail into them. I always thought, “Have some goddamned respect for yourselves, people!” Then I got this job. After turning 16, I can’t recall the last time…

February 7, 2013
I’m going to be a dad!

My wife is due April 13! It’s a girl and I’m excited. I’ll post more later. I’m really just making sure I’ve setup my blog client correctly on my new badass (I’m going to reread this post in 3 years and laugh at these specs) Core i7 3770K, 16GB desktop! No Windows 8 though. I…

January 24, 2013
resolv.conf in Ubuntu

I always forget this when I need it most and there are 10000 entries on Google with the wrong info. To add an DNS server in Ubuntu server, edit the following file as you would a resolv.conf file: /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base. Any entries manually added to /etc/resolv.conf get erased when networking is restarted.

April 26, 2012
Transparent Squid 3.1.19 on CentOS 6.2 VM

I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking about putting a proxy on my home network. Actually I do know why. It was because I tried to replace my SSG5 with a stupid ASA 5505 and wanted the web filter and inline AV scanning capability back. So I began building out a Squid server to…

February 15, 2012
rock and a hard place

This was supposed to be a year in review post, but I don’t feel like doing that right now. I’m trying to make a job decision right now, and I’m a little lost. The background is that I’m in a contract to hire position right now and we’re in the “to hire” phase of it…

January 9, 2012
ASDM 6.4(5)204

I upgraded ASDM from 6.4.(5)106 to 6.4(5)204 and the launcher broke. Running it as a web app still worked though, so I figured it had to do with the way the shortcut was setup. Here’s a comparison of the two: 106: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\javaw.exe -Xms64m -Xmx512m -Dsun.swing.enableImprovedDragGesture=true -classpath lzma.jar;jploader.jar;asdm-launcher.jar;retroweaver-rt-2.0.jar com.cisco.launcher.Launcher 204: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco Systems\ASDM\asdm-launcher.jar" -Xms64m -Xmx512m…

October 14, 2011
job wishlist

I need to find a job where I can work from home occasionally and wear jeans and a t-shirt (polo at the most) when I do have to go into the office. Oh and it can’t be Rackspace because fuck you.

October 5, 2011
Adventures in home improvement

I just bought a house, so expect to see more details about how I delve into home automation. Here’s one of the first bits of improvement we’re doing though. This is a patch of carpet in the master bath. I don’t understand what carpet is doing in the middle of such a humid/wet room. I…

August 23, 2011
Event 8194 Group Policy Registry

Started a new job a few weeks ago and now that the new team is all done with training, we’re going through and trying to fix things we’re coming across. One of the errors that showed up on every single domain controller is 8194 and has to do with Group Policy Registry happening every 5…

August 12, 2011
the space in between (again)

I’m starting a new job in a couple weeks. This is the first time I’ve had to deal with counteroffers and the whole thing has left a bittersweet taste in my mouth. The big takeaway from the experience for me is this: unless the SOLE reason for looking elsewhere is financial, once you start down…

July 11, 2011
ping sweep with windows cli

for /L %x in (1,1,255) do @ping -n 1 192.168.0.%x -w 100 | find “Reply” This works right in CLI

April 5, 2011
Windows NPS sync

1) Add machine2 as an administrator to machine1 2) Create a batch file with the following 3 lines: C:\Windows\System32\netsh.exe -r machine1 nps export filename=”c:\npsexport.xml” exportPSK=”YES”c:\windows\system32\netsh.exe nps import filename=”c:\npsexport.xml”del /F /Q c:\npsexport.xml 3) Create a scheduled task Done.

March 31, 2011

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