Install/Update OSSIM/OSSEC agent (AlmaLinux 8.6 or CentOS)
This is an update to the previous CentOS installation of OSSEC 3.6 ( here https://cheesefather.com/2020/06/install-ossim-ossec-agent-centos-7/), updating it to 3.7. You need one more library installed...
View ArticleVPS Benchmarks update: Amazon EC2 and Lightsail, Azure, Contabo,...
This is an update to the original 2020 benchmarks post with a new Provider Contabo (the only slight difference is that this provider is based in Postsmouth in the UK, everyone else on the list has a...
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Add custom icons to MeshCentral
MeshCentral is great, but the icons are a little Windows 7. Luckily, the author Ylian Saint-Hilaire has added a simple way to change them. Go to your MeshCentral installation folder and navigate to...
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Add custom icons to MeshCentral (part 2 – night mode)
Following on from part 1 I have updated the icons for night mode, if you edit config.json (in C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\meshcentral-data in my installation) and update the domains...
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Add custom icons to MeshCentral (part 3 – styles)
Carrying on from part 2 (night mode), if you copy the stylesheet style.css from C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\node_modules\meshcentral\public\styles (in my installation) to our custom...
View ArticleInstall MeshCentral agent on Alpine Linux
To install in Alpine Linux you need a specific installer that doesn’t need glibc so download that from your MeshCentral server (replace meshcentral-server.com with your server url): # wget...
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Fix banding from electronic shutter (silent shooting) and LED lights
Recently I used my new Sony mirrorless camera under LED lighting in silent shooting mode (electronic shutter) and the photos had horrible banding – dark stripes across every image. There’s lots of...
View ArticleGL.iNet GL-AR300M16-Ext with Tailscale and Samba (micro NAS with VPN)
I wanted to create a small, cheap device that I could put on my parents’ and in-laws’ networks so that they could have a small local backup and so that I could have a secure entry point into their...
View ArticleInstall Uptime Kuma on Amazon EC2 (Amazon Linux)
Uptime Kuma is an excellent free server monitoring system. I needed it running on EC2 – a fairly straightforward install from source as long as you have all the right pieces of the puzzle – which...
View ArticleInstall MySQL 8.0.40 on AlmaLinux 8
At the moment MYSQL only goes up to 8.0.36 on AlmaLinux 8 and I needed to install 8.0.40 – grabbing the official rpms and doing it manually was the only way that worked. Install net-tools, grab the...
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