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Mar/24

Remove Windows Family Account

Filed Under Windows at 4th March 2024 0:01 by

A quick post to a video on how to remove a Microsoft Family account from a computer. When you disable an account from logging into the computer, their profile and all associate files remain on the computer. This is not … Continue reading →

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Feb/23

Separate Networks By Password With Aruba (PPSK/MPSK)

Filed Under Networking at 6th February 2023 0:01 by

Overview I was looking for devices that supported Private PreShared Keys (PPSK) which allow a single access point to be broadcasted and depending on the preshared key used i.e password for the WiFi then it will assign various privileges. At … Continue reading →

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Aug/22

Let’s Encrypt With HaProxy

Filed Under Security, Web Server at 1st August 2022 0:01 by

Overview Using EFF’s goal to encrypt the Internet has spawned a project to issue TLS certificates is a great idea and opens up certificates for everyone and not just for those with money. To balance certificates being miss used, EFF … Continue reading →

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Jun/22

MySQL caching_sha2_password: the specified module could not be found.

Filed Under Database at 6th June 2022 0:01 by

Upgrading from MySQL 5.x to 8 has caused an error with existing accounts. The fix is to set the authentication to use. More details can be found here. MySQL 8.0.11 error connect to caching_sha2_password the specified module could not be … Continue reading →

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Dec/19

Pi-hole DNS Filtering

Filed Under Container, Infrastructure, Linux at 2nd December 2019 0:01 by

Overview Pi-hole is a very light weight, DNS filtering server. It’s so light that there are reports it can even run on a Raspberry Pi 1! Example reasons for filtering DNS include blocking ads to filtering out harmful sites (content … Continue reading →

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Jul/19

Home Networking Overview

Filed Under Networking at 1st July 2019 0:01 by

Overview My goal was to have the ability to manage and control devices connected to my network but also make it as seamless as possible for the users. These goals can be broken down into 3 areas: Securing devices Network … Continue reading →

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Jun/19

Backup Overview

Filed Under Infrastructure at 3rd June 2019 0:01 by

Overview This post ties all the backup posts into 1 overview of the backups. There are 3 main types based on the location of where the data is stored / managed: Local Offsite Online Local Backup Data that resides in … Continue reading →

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Jun/18

Securing HAProxy Headers

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Web Server at 4th June 2018 0:01 by

Overview https://securityheaders.io will give a score of how well placed the HTTP headers are on a site ranging from A+ to F (not sure what the R rating is for). Headers are a powerful meta (invisible to the naked eye) … Continue reading →