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1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial

"1984" is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, Venice, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. Its only U.S. daytime televised broadcast was on January 22, 1984 during and as part of the telecast of the third quarter of Super Bowl
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Security (CVSS CVE)

Definitions CVSS: Common Vulnerability Scoring System.  The CVSS framework is maintained by the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a nonprofit organization consisting of more than 500 members. CVSS scores are calculated using a formula consisting of vulnerability-based metrics. A CVSS score is derived from scores in these three groups: Base, Temporal and Environmental. Scores range from zero to 10, with zero representing the least severe and 10 representing the most
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How to Decrypt SSL Traffic on LTM

For this to work you need to decrypt the traffic as it comes in.  Its too late if you did a capture and all the traffic is encrypted.  So this entry is for those of you that would like to do some work ahead of time on the F5 and then have the user do some application testing while you are running a tcpdump.  In many cases for me, I have only needed to do this on our DMZ LTM which is where the our F5 works as an SSL Bridge SETUP Put the source IPs in a txt file.  I'm calling mine /var/t
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Backup Invision Community Site

I'm use to using all these different software packages available to other CMS sites like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.. that would perform routine backups of your site and make it very easy to restore.  In fact cPanel has backup and restore built in for Wordpress sites but that's where it stops.  Apparently we are all suppose to use the very slow Wordpress solution.  NOT! Briefly here is how you can create the routine to backup your website regardless 1st concentrate on the Database
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Zack's off to the Air Force

Our son graduated High School and is off to serve and defend our country with the United States Air Force (the 2nd hardest branch of the service you can join based on ASVAB score requirements with Coast Guard being the highest/hardest to qualify for) As you could probably imagine as a parent how exciting and scared you are for your kid even though many of us have been there without many of the luxuries that they have now a days.  From what I heard they have scaled back quite a bit due
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Netshot Compliance Tool

Many of us have to supply a report showing our devices are compliant based on auditors requirements.  What tool out there does compliancy checks?  A great free opensource compliancy tool is called netshot.   The open source compliance network software. Freely available : www.netfishers.onl/netshot
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git issues on Mac OS X after upgrade

My MacBook Pro got updated to MacOS Monterey (12.2.1) and since then, I can't use git at all.  When I run git I get this USDETMNBSJEMD6R:~ iSupport$ git xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun So in reading about others having this issue they just run  USDETMNBSJEMD6R:~ iSupport$ xcode-select --install xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools Th
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Create Visio Diagrams without Visio

Being a mac user and sometimes linux user (never Windows), I miss Visio since that's how I created my diagrams.  I tried many different software replacements to just be let down.  I stumbled on lucid.app which my initial reaction was, no way a web based anything could come close to Visio but man was I wrong. Yes you can import stencils Yes you can import Visio diagrams, OmniGraffle, Gliffy, Draw.io Yes you can export Visio Is it free?  No but its very affordable o
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Using ssldump on F5

You can use the ssldump utility to examine, decrypt, and decode SSL-encrypted packet streams managed by the BIG-IP system. The ssldump utility can act on packet streams real-time as they traverse the system, or on a packet capture file saved in the libpcap format, such as that produced by the tcpdump utility. Although it is possible for the ssldump utility to decode and display live traffic real-time as it traverses the BIG-IP system, it is rarely the most effective method to examine the volumin
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Wordpress Starter Help

Some of us dabble a bit in Wordpress but we had to start somewhere which means we got help from somewhere.  This blog entry is in hopes to give some material to help a newbie in the world of Wordpress. There are a few different great tools to use to build/customize your site and one of them I like to use is called Elementor.  Here is a great starter guide/video that is a bit older but he does a great job at walking you through building a wordpress site.   This video focu
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Working with Offshore

Many companies regardless if its I.T. related, medical or anything really, businesses have discovered they can save a ton of money but utilizing resources over sea's where the cost of living is much cheaper which in turn means talent is also less expensive. Obviously some downfalls come with using overseas no face to face via in office conversations no participation in out of office gatherings biggest issue many times is language barrier as recorded below
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Military Career STEP 6 (Tech Training)

Technical School typically comes after your Basic Training.  Now based on what job the military assigns you depends on where you will be going for your schooling.  Example for the Air Force they have four bases for Technical Training which include: Goodfellow AFB, TX Lackland AFB, TX (so in short you go to training where you went to basic) Sheppard AFB, TX Keesler AFB, MS
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Military Career STEP 5 (Basic Military Training)

As you can imagine this is one of the toughest parts about joining the service.  Some call it boot camp, some call it basic training and some call it hell.  During this time, they are testing you mentally, emotionally and physically.  No matter what branch of service they need to make sure before they hand you a gun or work on a multi-million dollar piece of equipment or put others in harms way the military needs to know that you won't loose your crap when shit gets real. How long is Basic
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Military Career STEP 4 (MEPS)

Military Entry Processing Station (MEPS) - Physical Testing This will include things like: Various medical exam (prepare to cough, lol) Background check (no criminal record, felonies, etc) Delayed Entry Program (DEP) swear-in Job counseling Choose your availability date for basic training Medical Examination They are making sure you pass physically regardless of what you told the recruiter.  While at MEPS you will be examined by a Physician so
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Military Career STEP 3 (Required Documents)

Now that you got your ASVAB score where you want it you need the following documents so go ahead and start putting them together so you aren't rushing to find them last minute Birth Certificate Social Security Card (not a copy) High School diploma or GED Drivers License College Transcripts (if any) Medical Records Casefile??  not sure what this is but the recruiter will tell ya  Some notes you should know If you are wearing a unifo
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Military Career STEP 2 (ASVAB TEST)

Is the military your choice for a career?  It's not a bad choice and if you ask me I believe we Americans should do what Italians do and require everyone who graduates serve their country for a minimum of two years.  Then they have the choice to either stay with the military and work towards and nice retirement or go the public sector and find a job with a company. If the military is your choice, you should probably practice the ASVAB testing which practice testing is available on this webs
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Military Career STEP 1 (Recruitment Interview)

When you are 17 you can go talk to a recruiter and you should have some questions to ask your recruiter regardless of what branch of service you want to join. If you set a time to meet a military recruiter, be courteous and show up at that time. Prove you're reliable and a person of your word by arriving at the time you said you would. It shows you respect your own time and that of the person you're meeting. Be on Time!! One important note to keep in mind: Just because you talk to a re
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SSL mutual authentication

A browser connecting to the secure server will use the SSL protocol to connect and verify the server’s certificate. However, customers can also use Mutual Authentication to have both the client and server use signed certificates to authenticate each other. With Mutual Authentication, both client and server will provide signed certificates for verification. How Mutual Authentication Works Client sends ClientHello message proposing SSL options. Server responds with ServerHello me
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What a POS

So for a year or two I have been looking for a Point of Sale system that accomodates all my needs which isn't alot but most POS's are focused on the restaurant business or retail and thats pretty much it.  We end up having to try and make one or the other work for events. I'll start off with the requirements then work give a review of each POS I've tried so far. Requirements Let's first start with my least liked POS but it didn't start that way...   Mobi POS At the
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F5 Configuring v12 Viprion

The below are some great video's on managing F5 Viprion Chassis running v12 Chapter 1     Chapter 2     Chapter 3     Chapter 4     Chapter 5     Chapter 6 missing   Chapter 7    
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