The ramblings of a computer geek
Let’s say you have three lines and you multi-select the beginning by holding ALT, then dragging down, so you end up with the cursor blinking across all three lines at once: You then add some something at the beginning of all three lines by typing across multiple lines at once: But now you want to … Read more
A useful visualisation on your Google Sheets is where you perhaps have a column for “Yes” or “No” or “Done” or “Not Started” and when this cell changes value, the whole row changes colour to make it obvious that action/item has been completed. You can do this as follows: Let’s say you have a spreadsheet … Read more
If like me you struggle to read dark blue comments on a black screen when using VIM, you can set a colour scheme in VIM by creating a file with these contents in your home directory. Add the following: There are a number of other colour schemes to suit your tastes.
The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Protocol is a method used by clients to locate the URL of a configuration file that provides them with configuration needed to determine their browser’s (or system) web proxy configuration (if present or not). The file an be published via DHCP (scope option) or via DNS, in our case we use DNS. … Read more
You can setup Putty to just log everything by adding logging to your Default Settings, that way whenever you connect, you’ll always be logging what the outputs are to your chosen location, e.g. your local machine. Although be aware of any sensitive on-screen information that would also be logged to these files. Your path may … Read more
From the AWS CLI you can easily see how big a AWS S3 Bucket, firstly login to the AWS CLI and then you can run the command:
Just like the testing of SMTP using Telnet, you can also perform the same steps if the target server is using TLS, however because telnet won’t do the job here, you can use OpenSSL instead. Here’s a simple example. Firstly get your Username and Password in Base64 format. You’ll get the Base64 encoded strings outputted … Read more
Splunk is a great tool for visualising alerts and events, I’ve been creating a dashboard to aggregate all the failed logon attempts from management interfaces of our network switches, firewalls, storage etc. so that if someone tries to brute force password attempt the interfaces we have some visibility. Obviously the queries you need to use … Read more
If you’re like me you probably have some home projects or CPD (Continuing Professional Development) on the go. Microsoft VSCode has the concept of Workspaces, so in my case I have a workspace for Personal projects and a workspace for Work projects. But it would be nice to be able to just start Microsoft VSCode … Read more
Postman is a great tool for testing and using APIs, in this article, I’ll show how you can use a Global Variable within Postman to store a value for reuse in other requests. I’m using an HPE Nimble Storage (Alletra Storage) array as a example for illustrating this. The API requires that you login using … Read more