Basics
Stuff for non-power users. Concepts that every elementary computing class should be teaching, but don't.
Basic Performance and Security Health for Windows
Spotless LCD Cleaning Made Easy
E-mail Security Configuration for POP Clients
Viewing One Website Is Promiscuous
Speeding Up Slow Computer (Users)
Systems & Network Admin Joy
Better (but not necessarily best) practices for business environments. Default installs are not wise. 24x7x365. Uptime, uptime, uptime. Get to it.
Patching Windows Offline, Old School Batch Script Style
The Many Paths of Wi-Fi Security
Getting Started with BackTrack 3 for Basic Wi-Fi Tracing
OpenBSD IPsec Site-to-Site Quickstart Guide
OpenBSD and OpenVPN Quickstart Guide
Nessus 4.0.2 Quickstart on CentOS 5.4
SolarWinds Real-time NetFlow Analyzer Quickstart
Attacking SSL with sslsniff and Null Prefixes
Windows Server Core Command Cheat Sheet
Sniffing Traffic at the Windows Command Line
Snort Quickstart on CentOS 5.5 (x86)
MRTG Quickstart on CentOS 5.5 (x86)
Free Redundant Firewalling with OpenBSD + pf + CARP Quickstart Guide (coming soon)
Filtering Web Advertisements with iptables and Squid (coming soon)
Fun with a Packet Sniffer
Curiosity doesn't always kill the cat. Ever wonder what really happens over layer 1? Here we randomly sample traffic created by common, everyday applications. Beginner stuff. All done in a lab environment. No packets were harmed during analysis.
802.11 Association and WPA2-PSK
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Cisco Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Negotiation
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 2
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
Awakening the iPad (for the first time)
Windows 7, the First 30 Minutes on the Network
Public Hotspots and Corporate Laptop Ownership Clues
Hopefully-Useful Random Stuff
Everyone accumulates clutter on their filesystem ... useful tidbits for which there's no dedicated place for. Here's what's in my "sort later" pile which I will never sort because I'm too busy.
Cisco FMC 6.3 Web UI Certificate Replacement via CLI
VMware ESXi 6.7 Certificate Replacement (no host reboot)
Cisco ASA 9.x Secure Configuration Baseline (posted on GitHub)
Cisco IOS Secure Configuration Baseline (posted on GitHub)
Cisco Border Router BCP 38 and Other ACL Basic Best Practices
CentOS 7 CIS 2.1.0 Hardening Script (posted on GitHub)
CentOS 7 Incident Response Live Data Collection Script (posted on GitHub)
WPA Enterprise Authentication Sequence