Took my wife and one of the kids on this amazing hike. The views are outstanding and the hike is very challenging a perfect combination. There are a few ways to do Medicine Bow peak but this is by far my favorite. During the trip we ran into many people who took this trail clockwise …
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Django Dev Server error “This site can’t provide a secure connection”
I was getting an SSL error when connecting to the dev server on http://127.0.0.1:8000 the default port. I found a quick workaround online by running the dev server with the following command and connecting to the server on the new port. “python.exe .\manage.py runserver 8080”
Year One Giant Pumpkin Experiment
This year we decided to try growing a “Giant Pumpkin”. We knew nothing about giant pumpkin growing so did a bit a reading and research but still made way to many mistakes so not sure what we will end up with. I began by reading Growing Giant Pumpkins by Jason Johns this gave me a …
Two Rules For Fortigate Beginners
After managing a small number of Fortigates for a handful of years I have came up with two rules that I wished I would have known when I started. There are numerous best practices but these two have caused me the most pain recently. Never install a dot zero release of the Fortigate firmware and …
Azure Application Insights On-Prem Web Farm
On each of the nodes of the web farm with a shared config run the following commands. Download: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.ApplicationMonitor/ After the commands have been run go into IIS on one of the machines in the web farm and add a module with name ManagedHttpModuleHelper pointing to Microsoft.AppInsights.IIS.ManagedHttpModuleHelper.ManagedHttpModuleHelper in the dropdown box. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/status-monitor-v2-overview
Vmware workstation error code 0xc00000005
Kept getting error code 0xc00000005 when trying to install windows 2019 as a guest on VMware workstation. I uninstalled and tried VirtualBox and got a different error. Searching the log files lead me to the following post about hyper-v interference. I had uninstalled Hyper-v but there must have been some hyper-v feature left. The following …
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Finally passing the CISSP certification
After multiple starts and stops I finally was forced to take the CISSP November 23rd as I was not able to postpone the cert further. I have been working as a sysadmin/security analyst in a single location for over 20 years. When working at the same job for so long, there is a risk of …
Fortigate to Fortigate VXLAN – Disaster Recovery
Been working on a solution for a disaster recovery one of the goals was a stretched layer 2 network. Since we would need a similar firewall with similar rules at the DR location I have been investigating vxlan over and IPSEC tunnel. This is the current test config I will update it when more testing …
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Packet Capture without Wireshark
I needed to capture packets off a production web server but did not want to add additional unnecessary software to production like wireshark or similar. I came across some dated articles on Netsh that looked promising. But the tool used to convert to packet capture seemed to be deprecated. Luckily the following tool allows you …