Recently I was asked to scour multiple AWS accounts to find any users or host role that had the S3FullAccess policy applied. So I came up with the following that will go through all users and roles to identify the ones with the S3FullAccess policy assigned. You can use this… Continue reading
The South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association is currently working on a project to coordinate multiple Radio Telescope collection points. This would require very precise time stamps on recorded data, much more accurate than what public NTP server pools could deliver. So we successfully built as close to… Continue reading
This is my list of my most used chaining operators in Ubuntu. 1 . Semi-colon operator ; The semi-colon allows you to chain multiple commands so that they run in-order. # apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; echo ‘upgrades are done’ 2 . Single Ampersand & The single ampersand… Continue reading
This quick how-to steps you through a simple installation of OwnCloud to a Ubuntu 14.04 server. First, you need some prereqs: sudo apt-get install php5-gd mysql-server To begin, you need to add the repository for ownCloud for ubuntu 14.04. wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key apt-key add – < Release.key Next,… Continue reading
In other posts, I have installed SabNZBD, Sickbeard, and Couchpotato for auto downloading of TV and Movies. In this case, I wanted to use the same process to download Comic Book Files, CBRs, automatically based on created lists, have SABnzbd download them, and have them moved to a permanent folder… Continue reading
Updated for Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 03-15-18 Universal Media Server is a fork off the very useful PS3 and PS4 Media Server. And although the PS3MediaServer was a great solution, it did have some shortcomings, especially with certain file formats or file containers. I tried UMS and loved it. It… Continue reading
Couchpotato is an automatic NZBD downloader. Very similar to SickBeard in that it will watch newsgroups for NZBD files, download the NZBD, and hand the file off to SABNzbd, other download utility, or save it off to a directory so that the system can download the media. In this example,… Continue reading
This is a working strongswan ipsec config that can be used for a roadwarrior setup for remote users utilizing certificate based authentication instead of id/pw. This is a pure IPSEC with ESP setup, not L2tp. This is not 2 factor, it is cert only. To get started: sudo apt-get install… Continue reading
Since my ISP blocks port 25, preventing me from running my own in-house email, I relay all my in-house emails and notifications generated from various components though the ISP email servers. This allows me to have internal components send messages to my in house server on 25 and those messages… Continue reading
My company uses MS Exchange 2013 for mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks. However, we have a lot of users on LInux desktops that can’t run Outlook. For others, the new Outlook 2013 is a horrible monstrosity of Flat icons on all all white background that burns your eyes after a… Continue reading
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 1: Amazon AWS Connectivity and Basic VPC Networking
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