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Of Pi’s and Play

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Hello Once again,

Lately I have been in a sort of Tecno slump, I havent really worked on anything Technological in a while, other than a few side projects with the Raspberry Pis, Of which I now run three, Five if you include my Fathers and Father in-laws, which I don’t as they do the same as number one.

Pi number 1 Is my Main media center PC with RaspBMC, It has been attached to my TV for over three months and only gets worked on when I blow it up, I.E. Over clocking and corrupting the SD card, Trying out and failing to get it to boot over NFS, Trying it randomly on USB.

Pi number 2 Protoboard PI, Havent worked on this one much, Runs one of the Debian Distros available, and has a protoboard attached, nothing built and no components bought besides the board and PI

Pi number 3, Kali Linux, Pentesting from a Pi, albeit slow this is actually pretty cool, Reaver runs decently, not fast by any means but I am looking for improvements, but as a dropbox this is awesome.

Both Fathers Pis are Currently Media Centers as well though My Pops may be re-purposed into a small web server as after the death and rebirth of the server I have not been able to get the three nics to coöperate nicely since..

-Jace

Love Virtual Machines and Hypervisors

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Ello,

As anyone who checked recently knows I had a HDD failure where My servers Operating system Hard Drive Failed, The Bios would not even recognize the drive being plugged in, So I figured i would be down for a while and set up a small web server in one of my Raspberry Pi’s.

What I did not know was how cheap mechanical Hard drives had become over the last year or so, The boot drive was a 500GB and well within warranty, so I had already planned to send it back to get it repaired/replaced, on a off trip to a local computer store I checked the price for another drive($64 and change) in the mean time and bought it on sight.

Seeing as with most of my recent servers I have switched to running different services in separate VMs I.E.: This Webserver in one, The IRC server in another, etc…

So Once I had the server back up bringing the services up was cake, just load each VM from the most current backup and were back where we were.

Feels good to have a decent back up stratagy.

Jace

Virus Scare leads to new Beginnings

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Ello,

Much as the title reads My computer(win 7 boot) started acting strange though no matter how much I scanned it and with(MS Defender Offline, Kaspersky Rescue and Clam AV which ran from my Dualboot of Ubuntu) everything came up clean.

By strange I mean things like device manager erroring out, other random errors that just made it seem like the system was compromised, so I pulled out a Ubuntu boot stick and wiped the drive with ‘shred -z’ which overwrote the drive three times before overwriting it with straight zeros.

After that I decided it was time to learn Windows 8 as I am the go to IT person for my and my wifes family, and staying behind the curve wont do me any good. So I Grabbed my copy of Win 8 and stuck it in, installed it, placed my antivirus, and could not get the system to update for the life of me.

Research, Madness and multiple computer threats later, I happened apon a page from my google search that stated if you have something, In my case my router, filtering active x to turn it off, Windows 8 will not update if you filter Active X, which has always been enabled in my Router and never caused an Issue in Win 7, never the less after disabling it Windows 8 updated and allowed me to install Media center.

That was Just Windows, I plan to install Kali Linux as well and see how it pans out as a daily driver as apposed to my old setup of Win/Ubuntu/BackTrack, If Kali will function as I need it to Ubuntu will go to the way side, With Kali I also plan to look into using an encrypted LVM to store it.

This is all for now,
Jace

True Transformer, Computer in Disguise

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After Reading up on the latest up comings in the Transformer Infinity (TF700) world I found something new, something beautiful..

Seeing as I have been at work and not keeping up on this I feel so dumb for missing it.

A True Dual boot option for my Tablet, That will not wipe the Internal memory.. Will not Destroy anything, and since I have an unlocked and Androidroot bootloader all else was childs play.

After following this guide and taking about an hour to get the ubuntu partition downloaded, I copied it over, another ten minutes for it to install, gave it fifteen gigabyte for its virtual disk.

I have both Ubuntu and my EXISTING Android installation available on my Tablet either one being selectable at boot time

Ubuntu has full working wifi and touchscreen with onscreen keyboard which is nice when I don’t want to have it docked.

Pictures may follow.

Servers and Primes

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Tonight was well spent.

I helped get my Pops HotRod computer back up and running and also now have a working installation of Ubuntu 12.04 on my Asus Transformer Prime. Though not quick its another feather in the cap of “yup put ‘full’ linux on it” as normally I put linux on the game systems..

Well being able to dual boot is nice but I need a bigger and faster micro sd card if I want it truely useable.

Tommorows goals:

Get unity in prime replaced with another Window manager,

Put Ubuntu in Pops Computer

Don’t forget irc.firezen.com is there for anyone to use, I’m normally sitting in #Island from 10-10 est

Later

Gentoo

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Well having alot of free time leads to some interesting debacles.. Like what to do when you have run out of Ideas for servers and Games seem boring, Can’t find anything new to hack/put linux on.. So I’m branching out from my Debian/Ubuntu Box and am playing with Gentoo..

Currently Compiling my First Kernel, though i did it the cheap/cheating easy way.. ‘genkernel all’

 

I wonder what will come of my boredom

Man in the middle

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So my sister calls me today stating her Chrome browser is showing a windows update page and downloading a file that her antivirus, Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, keeps red flagging and sending to quarentine, this happened no matter what page she went to, Facebook, google, etc..

Burned a copy of her OS, WIN 7 home premium 64 bit incase reformat was inorder, grabbed my bootable kaspersky recovery usb stick,Packed up the kids and went to her house and saw the same thing, at this time she informed me her messenger, MSN, was failing to connect as well as her antivirus was failing to update and now complained of a bad blacklist, normally this would be a sign of a cracked or stolen copy of the antivirus program but seeing as I bought this for her and still have the key I knew this wasn’t true,

Rebooted her pc onto the Kaspersky recovery key and tried to update its definitions, that failed, I opened its internal browers and low and behold the same page came up.. then it struck me some one could be deploying a MITM attack either through her wireless router or her internet so either way I took her router out of line and pugged her directly into the modem, automagicly the problem was solved,

I updated the definitions and ran a full deep scan anyway with no Virus or otherwise found, at this point she has no need for the wireless AP so I left it out of line untill I can futher assert what happened either way that’s my interesting story of the day and as I said I trust Kaspersky, the rescue edition can make either the usb key or cd which is linux based, a complete plus in my book

I leave you with this

If two operating systems on the same computer of seperate origin( linux, windows, etc) experience the same problem its not normally the pc at that point but though for me 99% its not always the case

www.kaspersky.com