Consider this - you are trying to workaround a critical flaw in the Windows task scheduler service which no one else seams to have, but it causes duplicate processes to be started each day. You don't know why, but restarting the server fixes it, and you find that just restarting…
The bulk of this post is from Mike Mylonakis and his blog post Using docker behind an http proxy with authentication [https://mikemylonakis.com/unix/docker-proxy/]. I'm writing my own post with my modifications to aid in my learning The problem At my place of work, all internet traffic must…
Ahead of Storm Ciara, Saturday 8th of February was quite a calm day and with nothing else planned I decided to get up early and go for a walk. I need to do this more as it does get me away from a screen and allows me to clear my…
On my twitter feed, I saw a tweet from Microsoft about Microsoft Flow, Microsoft's tool which says I should I did know about Microsoft Flow, but never had a need for it. But for some reason my mind connected Microsoft Flow with Troy Hunt's PwnedPasswords service. He's written loads [https:…
Who * Andy * Ian * Roger * myself Where Bull Pot, Kingsdale When Sunday 3rd November 2019 Going underground at ~11:15, resurfaced at 15:00 Report Over the usual Inglesport breakfast we discussed options for the day's trip. There was concern that the recent rainfall might have make the planned Boundary Pot…
PowerShell can be daunting for those who are completely new to the scripting language. This is a brief post about some useful commands to know when starting out Get-Command You want to do something, but don't know the command name, or even if there is a command that does that.…
Saturday, 19th October, 2019 Only Andy and myself for this trip. We met at Inglesport for our usual breakfasts before heading off to Kingsdale. We parked in a lay-by 2 spots on from the usual Valley Entrance spot. I'd got the kit sorted a few nights earlier so once we'd…
This is my first writeup of a capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge. I started one at BSidesLeeds 2018 but never managed to get to the flag. While I didn't get to the end, I did enjoy the journey it took me on. At work recently I have been deeply involved in a…