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For the past several months I have been building a thing called pftui, which lives over at www.pftui.com, and the aim was simple enough to…

I have been building a markets analytics tool for a while now, and one of the things it does is empire cycle analysis. Rather than reading…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way from its humble beginnings. With recent advancements in AI technologies such as OpenAI's…

As we navigate the choppy waters of our post-COVID-19 economy, Bitcoin's importance as a decentralised, non-sovereign form of currency has…

As the world of blockchain technology and smart contracts continues to evolve, privacy and scalability remain two of the key concerns.…

Hello DevOps enthusiasts! Today we turn our focus to an influential tool in the field of infrastructure management and automation -…

Greetings! Today we're going to explore an extraordinary Linux distribution that too few have heard of - NixOS. The Revolutionary Duo: Nix…

I recently had trouble finding a solution to issue public SSL certs for an OCI Load Balancer with automatic renewal. I was hoping the OCI…

In this post I will be quickly running through the basic setup and configuration of BIRD, an open-source routing protocol daemon for…

With the price action of Bitcoin entering a sorely needed cool down phase as of late, the Wyckoff Method has been getting a lot of attention…

Arc.io Earlier today, this site was temporarily enrolled in the Arc.io peer-to-peer Content Delivery Network for testing: As per Arc's site:…

In this post I will be running through a step-by-step walk-through on how to setup your personal machine to mine BTC using the brilliant…

So a lot has changes since the last halving cycle in 2017. Tech has evolved, the industry has matured and the need is there. In 2021 we find…

Here is a really cool embedded visualization of live exchange data that I just had to share. Hit the fullscreen button and let it load: Be…

I was recently pulled in to support a migration project, where some H3C firewalls were being swapped out for Cisco ASAs. While the base…

We have a shiny new Segment-Routing MPLS core, and one of the many available features this brings is enhanced Traffic Engineering. Here we…

BGP resets are a common operational tool employed to manipulate exchanged routing tables and to troubleshoot faulty routing operation. Here…

MTR MTR (My Traceroute) is a fantastic diagnostic tool that can outright replace the more common ping and traceroute verification wherever…

So, Cisco have an awesome python script on their github here, and at the time of writing the repo has only 5 stars (yours truly included).…

This post will run through a simple one-off Ansible playbook of mine that I use to install and configure SNMP on newly-provisioned CentOS…

This post will be a departure from my usual specialised deep-dive tutorials, and instead I will be listing some of my favourite browser…

Cisco Software Manager (CSM) is an orchestration and management platform for Cisco ASR9K IOS-XR devices that provides a framework for the…

So your shiny new Cisco device now comes with some added toys, such as a fully-fledged built-in Linux environment complete with YUM package…

Rolling out new VLANs across a network can be time consuming. The Ansible playbook documented in this post automates the configuration and…

I recently set out to find a solution for receiving push notifications on my mobile device for important events on my servers. There are…

Hi guys! In this post I am demonstrating the use of Ansible's Jinja2 templating module, and the applications it can be utilized for within a…

This is a quick glimpse at a production application of Ansible to automate your infrastructure Access-Control-Lists. Access-Control-Lists…

Just a quick one today, here is a look at cracking Linux user passwords using John the Ripper. John was designed in an age of central…

This blog post is about SNMPv3. As many Engineers familiar with SNMP will know, SNMP is a powerful protocol that can divulge a lot of…

A few months back I moved away from NGINX and made the switch to Traefik as my SkyeNet.tech reverse proxy. A colleague had recently made the…

Creating a virtual environment will limit anything you do to that environment only, and no dependency installations will escape onto your…

Regular expressions, or regex, are templates to match text patterns. They provide a way to describe and parse text, and provide a flexible…

Today I will be looking at Outline VPN: one of the simplest VPN solutions yet, straight from the Google family! Created by Jigsaw, a younger…

This post will be a mixture of my own personal VIM cheatsheets, along with a high-level overview of the Vim text-editor. Text-Editors are a…

Of late, I have found myself distro-hopping very frequently on my various personal machines (not to mention breaking my installs way too…

IS-IS is a very powerful Link-State routing protocol that is often overlooked and shied away from. Officially removed from Cisco's CCNP…

Securing a WiFi network is no easy feat, especially when the client authentication happens literally through the air. Several standards have…

You use passwords? Yeah, they're important, ay. I have a few different ones on the go, a bunch of password managers and vaults, but we all…

Here I will be discussing another WiFi attack vector; deauthentication attacks. Within the IEEE 802.11 standard, forever branded unoffically…

For this post we will be looking at how the WiFi protocol (IEEE 802.11) allows alien devices to view network paramaters prior to connecting,…

Nmap is a highly popular, and very powerful network security tool. Nmap is used for network mapping and port scanning in the discovery of…

TAR (Tape Archive) is used aggregate files and directories into a single file for easily backing up and moving. When unpacked, the files and…

The phrase "Everything is a file" has been used to desscribe Unix and Linux for a long time, and is profoundly characteristic of the…

PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) is, as the name suggests, a Python Wrapper for managing API access to Reddit. PRAW takes control over the…

VRF, or Virtual Routing and Forwarding, is an IP technology part of Cisco's MPLS/VPN suite used to virtualise logical Routing Tables on a…

In this post, I would like to run through another one of OverTheWire's hacking challenges. To preserve the integrity of the challenges, all…

In this post, I would like to run through another one of OverTheWire's hacking challenges. To preserve the integrity of the challenges, all…

IP addresses consist of 4 bytes of data. Each byte (or octet) can range from a value of 0 to 255, resulting in a total number of…

BGP is a Path-Vector Routing Protocol. Similar to RIP, BGP uses hop-count as it's primary metric for finding the best route, but BGP uses…

A very powerful tool I would like to mention in this entry is Clogin. Clogin, or Cisco-Login, is a part of the RANCID toolkit, or the…

Internet Protocol, originally designed in 1977, is a Layer 3 protocol for packet-switched networks. IP is a connection-oriented…

In 1969, a remote division of AT&T’s Bell Labs were hard at work developing a breakthrough in computer science; a time-sharing operating…

Addresses Bitcoin implements the concept of Public/Private keys to secure your wallet. This idea is no different to a typical…

Bitcoin is a culmination of technologies and idealogies, masterfully woven together by the mysterious creator "Satoshi Nakomoto". Rooted…

Overview EIGRP is a Cisco-proprietary routing protocol that combines the simplicity and low overhead of Distance Vector protocols with the…

In the early days of TCP/IP Networking, there was RIP. Now at the time RIP was the perfect Protocol for small private Networks; it was easy…

The story of the Internet begins in the late 1960's, researchers at MIT have just succeeded in transferring data from one computer to…