Recent Community Posts
Creating an Automated Server Disk Space Report
Difficulty: Intermediate This guide will teach you how to take a powershell script, turn it into a scheduled task, and have the output of the script be emailed to you. The script I'm going to be demoing here is a simple disk space check that runs on a list of servers you define. For every server in the list with a drive that has less than 20% of … [Read More...]
Angry IP Scanner
Angry IP scanner is a great bit of software that allows you to ping an specified IP range quickly. It will graphically represent a list of dead / alive hosts on the subnet. The developers “angryip.org” describe it like so: “Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner. It can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any … [Read More...]
Installation of Endian Community Firewall part 1
Endian Firewall Community Edition I’ve been meaning to set up my personal router/firewall for some time now. Currently I’m using your standard off-the-shelf Linksys router to run my network. This being my first home setup I don’t have anything else to compare it to other than a few commercial routers and firewalls. The following is a … [Read More...]
Dongular Deviation
Intro Does that picture ring any bells? You know, that thing we used to listen to before the internet happened? That chunk of RF right between 88 and 108MHz with all the crazy DJs, talk and music? Right, that's the one. But didn't you ever wonder what could happen if you were able to force that dial way past those limits? What would you find? … [Read More...]
Arduino/x10 Home Automation over WiFi
Introduction On an episode of Hak5 they discussed setting up a garage door to be opened with a mobile device. Unfortunately, the audio was missing on the section where they discussed building/configuring the actual hardware to operate the garage door. This episode inspired me to start working on some home automation that could be accessed with any … [Read More...]
OpenBSD PF on Mac OSX Lion
Once Again, Happy New Year. I've been playing around with the PF firewall on Mac OS X Lion (10.7). I have to say that this is a great feature that is built into Mac OS X Lion that a lot of users do not take advantage of. Many people feel that they don't need a firewall just because they aren't running windows... which is the biggest mistake anyone … [Read More...]
Plex Media Server / Center
This segment is on Plex media server / center. I wanted a way to distribute my local media to all of my devices, not just to my Windows PCs and PS3 but also to my Roku and Android devices. The nice thing about Plex is that it works on the following devices: Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, Roku and the Nook Color. These are the devices that I know it … [Read More...]
