By rashid, 10 December, 2023

Hiring an unlicensed consultant means you are uninsured

 
Kenny Kristo: So you're a private detective, is that right?
Matthew Scudder: Unlicensed.
Kenny Kristo: What's that mean?
Matthew Scudder: It means that sometimes I do favors for people and sometimes in return, they give me gifts.

A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By rashid, 25 August, 2023

S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) or SMART is a Windows technology designed to predict hard drive failure on hard disk drives (HDDs).

  •  Open Command Prompt or PowerShell as administrator.
  • wmic /namespace:rootwmi path MSStorageDriver_FailurePredictStatus
  • False means there are no problems. True means you need to look up the reason number.

You can also check the HDD status by following below steps:

By rashid, 12 August, 2023

In the event that you need to reboot an Axis IP camera that responds to ping but does not load the web interface, you can often accomplish the task via FTP.

After logging in, enter the command “quote site reboot” followed by enter twice.
ftp> quote site reboot
200 Command okay.
ftp> quote site reboot
200 Command okay.
ftp>

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By rashid, 19 July, 2023

To set your computer IP 192.168.0.10/24, execute the following command:

netsh interface ip set address "connection name" static 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

To set DNS IP address: 192.168.0.1
netsh interface ip add dns "connection name" 192.168.0.1
netsh interface ip add dns "Wi-Fi" 192.168.0.1

2nd DNS server address:

netsh interface ip add dns "Wi-Fi" 54.252.183.5 index=2
netsh interface ip add dns "Wi-Fi" 8.8.8.8 index=3

Verify connection by executing: ncpa.cpl

By rashid, 3 May, 2023

There are several command line that are most useful:

  • /s – Shutdown the computer
  • /r – restart computer
  • /m \\computer – Specify the remote computer
  • /l – Log off
  • /t xxx – Set the time out period before shutdown to xxx seconds
  • /c “comment” – Message to display on the screen before restart or shutdown

Now let’s move on to some examples. To restart remote computer (hostname: pc2):

shutdown /r /m \\pc2

To restart remote computer (hostname: pc2) with a custom message:

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By rashid, 3 March, 2023

The NIST guidelines for password policies are available in NIST Special Publication 800-63B "Digital Identity Guidelines: Authentication and Lifecycle Management". This document is updated regularly as the recommendations evolve.  In the 03-02-2020 update, guidelines for passwords, or memorized secrets, have been greatly simplified and are summarized later in this section. Always refer to the NIST document for the latest information.

NIST guidelines for passwords:

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By rashid, 5 October, 2022

Security concerns must be given greater importance in industrial research.

We don't know the cause of the explosion. And we don't know the source of the espionage, if indeed there was espionage.

But we do know that we are at risk.

Every idea that offers a competitive advantage to Americans is subject to theft.

And that, gentlemen, couId be catastrophic.

The incident in Chicago was tragic, to be sure.

But sometimes that is the price we must pay to ensure our competitive edge in the future.

By rashid, 6 August, 2022

Linux uses logical labels for drives that are then mounted on the filesystem. These logical labels will vary depending on where the drives are mounted, meaning the same hard drive might have different labels at different times, depending on where and when it’s mounted.

When systems have more than one hard drive, Linux simply names them serially by incrementing the last letter in alphabetical order, so the first drive is sda, and the second drive is sdb, the third drive is sdc, and so on.

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