21 Articles in the category: Skills
Easy Clock With Seconds On Windows 11
Tue, 17th of September 2024 11:13 AMThis is the best method I could find to easily obtain for myself a precious and coveted semi-Windows-10-style clock on Windows 11. Microsoft seems not to want us to know the time in seconds. I'm not...
Fix Repeating Keys (Chatter) On Mechanical Keyboards
Thu, 12th of September 2024 11:08 AMMechanical keyboards have become more popular than ever. Yet many are prone to chatter —keystrokes registering more than once per keypress. That is, unwanted repeated letters as you type. The basic problem is that all mechanical...
Learn Pentesting Basics in One Week? – Try This Challenge
Thu, 20th of January 2022 1:59 PMTo help with my Cybersecurity job search, I thought it would be interesting to see how much pentesting I can learn in a one-week period. I'll describe what I've done, starting from the basics. I'll...
Using Amazon AWS EC2 and Lucee to Host Legacy ColdFusion CFML Pages
Sat, 15th of January 2022 1:17 PMThis page describes setting up a CFML server using Lucee (compatible with Adobe ColdFusion CFML pages) on Amazon's AWS EC2 cloud computing service. I was looking for a way to host example/demo versions of some of...
What it Was Like to Use the Internet in 1991
Sat, 15th of January 2022 10:50 AMThis page describes what it was like to use the Internet in 1991. This was before almost anyone in ordinary life had even heard of the Internet. Back then, it was almost a completely blank...
bWAPP – A Deliberately Buggy Web App to Practice Cybersecurity
Mon, 10th of January 2022 11:20 PMThis page describes how to install bee-box, a virtual Linux installation containing bWAPP, which is a deliberately buggy web application to practice pentesting and other cyber security skills on. From the bWAPP website: ...
Introduction to the Iptables Firewall Program for Linux
Mon, 3rd of January 2022 8:51 PMThis page gives a quick introduction to the Iptables firewall software for Linux. More details will follow later... 1. How Iptables Works. The term “iptables” may refer to either the software firewall which is integrated...
How to Install Kali Linux On VirtualBox
Sun, 26th of December 2021 6:20 PMIf you have a relatively modern PC or Mac, you can install Linux (e.g. Kali Linux) as a Virtual Machine. Which is in some ways like having an entire second computer, for the price of...
An Introduction to Port Scanning with Nmap
Thu, 23rd of December 2021 10:31 AMThis video gives an introduction and demonstration of port scanning, using Nmap and Masscan on Kali Linux. I made the video as part of an assignment for my Cyber Security course. I'll write more...
PHP Script to Sync Between Two Different Database Servers
Mon, 20th of December 2021 7:13 PMThis page gives an example of source code in PHP and MySQL which can sync individual data fields between two different MySQL database servers. I use it to update from my LOCALHOST MySQL development server to...
Massively Improve the Tone of a Mesa Boogie SOB Guitar Amp
Sat, 18th of December 2021 10:09 AMThis page describes an electronics "mod" which I did in 2015, and discovered that it can massively improve the tone of a Mesa Boogie SOB Vintage Guitar Amplifier. SOB stands for "Son of...
How to Compile C Programs for DOS in 2021
Wed, 15th of December 2021 10:39 AMThis page explains the steps I used to re-compile a C program I wrote on a DOS PC in 1997, but using a modern PC in 2021. I wanted to do this so I could...
Learn How to Hack Systems By Playing the Bandit Wargame
Wed, 8th of December 2021 11:21 PMYou can play this game to learn the basics of the Unix / Linux terminal "shell" command prompt, and many other essential skills used in computer networking, including hacking. I'll write much more about this soon...
Insert Multiple Rows in Acceess in One SQL Statement
Tue, 7th of December 2021 9:56 PMOK I was soooo close to giving up on this. This works in Access. (Many say its impossible, but we are learning hacking skills here right?) XD. This is the...