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Cruise Ship – Prohibited Items List

I am heading on a vacation with family.  Doing some last minute review of what we would be unable to take along with us. The following items are prohibited on-board. These items will be confiscated and not transported aboard.   All illegal narcotics/drugs. (Including Marijuana prescribed for medical purposes and other items used as drug […]

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Re: Why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5 / ESXi 6.5

Recently I went to extend a volume on one of my guest systems and received an error requiring me to power off the system before extending the disk. Error: Hot-extend was invoked with size (5368709120 sectors) >= 2TB. Hot-extend beyond or equal to 2TB is not supported. The disk extend operation failed: msg.disklib.INVAL Good News – With vSphere […]

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How-To Technical

Useful nmap testing commands

Nothing new here .  Just wanted to share some commands I are useful when performing network or direct systems testing using the nmap tool. The commands below will all display scan results in console while also saving to file.   Discover live hosts:  nmap -n -sn -PE -oA live_hosts 10.0.0.0/24 Discover open TCP ports: nmap -sS […]

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How-To Software Technical

External ADFS Password Change Broken after Windows Updates

AD FS 3.0 has the capability to allow the user to change their password when they supply their existing password. To enable this, open the AD FS management console, expand Service, and select Endpoints. In the middle pane, you’ll see a long list of endpoints. Scroll down to the Other section, and select /adfs/portal/updatepassword/. Right […]

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Bluetooth, NFC, and Wireless Safety

Bluetooth, NFC, and Wireless Safety – Day 6 – 30 Day Security Challenge – TekThing [youtube id=”xL0EMGyCguw” width=”600″ height=”350″] Turn off Bluetooth. Turn off NFC. Turn off auto connect to known wireless access points. Forget networks you don’t normally connect to. Today’s Video and Shownotes: https://snubsie.com/day-6 The Whole Challenge: https://snubsie.com/30-day-security-c…

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Introducing Re:scam

  Re:scam is an initiative aimed at helping people from becoming fraud victims by occupying the time and resources of scammers through deploying a well-educated artificially intelligent chat bot. Instead of junking or deleting a scam email, you can now forward it to Re:scam who will continue the conversation indefinitely – or until the scammer […]