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A GoodReads review of my Minecraft Servers

There are times I search my domain name to see where my ranking are going. Tonight I came across something unexpected. It was a review on the website goodreads where a player who visits my Minecraft Servers gave it a very friendly review and write up.  How awesome is that! I am so happy that […]

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Do You Want to Build a Meth Lab? (Frozen / Breaking Bad Parody)

If you are a fan of AMC’s hit television series Breaking Bad, and Disney’s Frozen, this parody will give you a new kind of joy that only we will can appreciate. [youtube id=”Q98usm9q1QE” width=”600″ height=”350″] Lyrics: Jesse, Do you want to build a meth lab? Come on let’s go and cook I never see you […]

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Metallica’s “One” played on medieval instruments

Belarusian music ensemble Stary Olsa (Стары Ольса) covers “One” from Metallica’s 1988 LP,…And Justice For All. [youtube id=”YTCiuTUaEvs” width=”600″ height=”350″] More info on the band can be found here:  http://staryolsa.com/eng/band.html

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Tech Short: Ubuntu Server System Information on login

If you have run Ubuntu Server you may have noticed that each time you log into your system via SSH system information  status are displayed. I have wondered this for a while now and tonight I found out. The command to reproduce this information is landscape-sysinfo This command is run from /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo and exists when […]

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Monitoring Public Facing Servers, and Services for Free

Its not often I can say a free hosted product can give you alerts and all the info you wanted,  but this one does. I was using the service Monitor.us which is excellent to monitor public site and endpoints.  However for free version had a limitation of only 2 systems so I had to resort to […]

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Generate a CSR using OpenSSL

Sometimes I generate a CSR to acquire an SSL cert from a public CA. Normally where I work I do this from a windows server.  For my personal knowledge I decided to  refresh myself on how to do this with OpenSSL. What’s OpenSSL? OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. To generate […]