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Its 2024, and I have gone full circle...

First and foremost, Happy New Year 2024. I am writing this very late on January 1st, 2024, so it will probably be posted on January 2nd by the time I finish writing it. As many of my readers know, on January 1st, 2012, I switched provinces. I moved from Ontario (at the time Cornwall, Ontario) to Montreal Island (Dorval, Quebec), however after 4352 Days on the Island (11 Years, 11 Months, as I…

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My Facebook account got hacked!

It’s about half past midnight here on the island, and I just finished getting my hacked account back into my possession with a brand new password and 2FA enabled. But I wanted to tell you about my horrific journey and how to recover a hacked account, and of course, ways to make it more secure once you have the account back. What Happened? My take starts just under 2 weeks ago. June 9th, 2023. …

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Samba Based Active Directory on Ubuntu 22.04

Preface I have been waiting for a long time to write this post. In order to test this out, I needed to upgrade my home lab. I had a VM machine running XCP-NG (I tried Proxmox, it’s just not the same), but it had an old dual core Intel and 8GB of ram, so not much I could do with other than host a good single VM… which is pointless, the server might as well be the function of that single VM. So…

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[FIX] mysql_secure_installation not setting the root password

I recently helped my buddy move from Centos 7 to Ubuntu 18.04. In the process, we noticed one of his custom websites was a little messed up. It was throwing a lot of errors in regards to mysqli_connect getting a boolean value instead of the query. We found out this was due to a difference between MariaDB (Centos 7) and plain old MySQL (Ubuntu). So we fixed this by removing MySQL and…

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Spotify - Gotta love it

Spotify – Gotta love it

It is amazing how much technology has changed over the last few decades. When I was growing up in the 80’s I remember listening to my brother’s Metallica collection on cassette, then in my high school years, listening to 90’s grunge on Compact Disc (CDs), then in college listening to MP3s on a digital music player (all-be-it mostly downloaded off of peer sharing services like Napster and them…

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I moved my web server from VestaCP to HestiaCP and here is why.

I recently took on the task of updating my webserver. The decision to do this was mainly because my web server’s operating system was nearing end of life. For those who know, CentOS 7 is the last of it’s kind, a stable enterprise OS based off of Redhat. With full release updates ending at the end of 2020 and security updates till 2024, I decided to jump ship… to Ubuntu. Wait… What?… Ubuntu? Yes……

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[ FIX ] Unable to SSH into TNAS after update? TOS 4.2.28

If you are like me, you use your TerraMaster NAS proficiently. By this I mean you use its full capabilities like SSH and SCP. But sadly the TerraMaster has changed their policy with the latest update. With the latest version, 4.2.28-220119172 they enabled a lot of cool features, one being PAM, which blocks a user if they login with a bad password more than 3 times. However they enabled a feature…

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Resetting Lost Root Password in Ubuntu when "single" fails.

Resetting Lost Root Password in Ubuntu when “single” fails.

Background Story (skip) quite a few times a year I head out to my best friend Eric’s place back in Ontario. We’ve known each other for the better part of our lives as we met in high school. One of the passions we share is the Linux operating system, although different ends of the spectrum. Eric is more into Ubuntu, and he runs it for his work and personal servers, as well as his desktop. I on…

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Starting a New Chapter - Fall 2021

Starting a New Chapter – Fall 2021

Come January 1st, 2022, just 3 months away, I will be celebrating my 10th year here on the Island. I cannot believe how fast time has flown. To think I moved here the first of the year 2012 due to a job opportunity at a, then, friend’s UPS Store. I moved my way since them, working at the Atwater Library and Computer Centre as the Computer Centre Manager, then on to Netelligent where I worked…

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What have I been up to?

It has been a long time since I have made a personal post on here, but after finally finishing a task that has taken me 2 years (Thanks Covid19), I figured I would make a post about my adventure. The featured image should give it away… Maybe not… if you are not from Quebec, you might mistake this for a regular censored photo of a Drivers License, you would be partially correct. So for those from…

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Installing epel-release in CentOS 8 and Oracle Linux 8 - The EASY Way

Installing epel-release in CentOS 8 and Oracle Linux 8 – The EASY Way

TLDR: Centos 8: sudo dnf install epel-release Oracle Linux 8: sudo dnf install oracle-epel-release-el8 The Whole Story With the news late last year, that Redhat was killing off CentOS, there was a shockwave throughout the industry. To those outside of the linux server environment, I am not sure you could comprehend the vast affect this will have. Many companies rely of the Community ENTerprise…

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VestaCP offsite backup script

I have always been an advocate for using a control panel when dealing with multi site hosting. In my case I use VestaCP, which is a great, simple, free alternative to the big boys like Plesk and cPanel. The only issue though, is space for backups. On the server I normally have 3 to 5 days backed up, which is great, however if you find out your site had been hacked 7 days ago, all your backups…

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Installing Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Fedora in Virtualbox

In this video we install VirtualBox, then create 4 Virtual Machines including Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Fedora. Important Links: Virtualization VT-x/AMD-V/SVM Mode (ROG) Common: https://bit.ly/2IblnP8 ROG: https://bit.ly/3g6xfyh VirtualBox: https://bit.ly/2JMQQY7 Ubuntu 20.04: https://bit.ly/3lCmdBZ Xubuntu 20.04: https://bit.ly/39E5QCP Kubuntu 20.04: https://bit.ly/3g9BXv9 Fedora 32:…

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Coronavirus update - Day 257

Coronavirus update – Day 257

Its been almost 3/4 of a year since I have gone WFH (Work from home) in isolation When I last posted about the numbers, we had just passed 7 million infected. That was 170 days ago. Now we are at just over 60 million. But this post is not as much about Covid-19 as much as it is about the amount of disinformation. In the past week I have been messages posts on Social Media that are so drenched…

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Soon to be Streaming on Twitch

As of August 2nd of this year, I will be officially streaming on Twitch. Thanks to a close friend of mine, Danielle Allard (website, twitch) who has given me the confidence to get this up and running. I have been running Revelnoded Gaming for a few years, but only posting the odd video to Youtube. Now I have expanded to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I even opened up a Discord Server.

On my…

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The Outbreak - UPDATE - Day 87

The Outbreak – UPDATE – Day 87

It has been a while since I did an update on the COVID-19 situation. The reasoning is being in isolation can be, well, depressing at the very least. Being cooped up for months at a time with little to no human contact can drive even the sturdiest person up the wall. And I am not the most sturdiest person.

So where are we at? I will tell you this… not in a great place. We are 7,149,360 cases…

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The Outbreak - Day 27 of Work from Home, day 40 of Isolation

The Outbreak – Day 27 of Work from Home, day 40 of Isolation

A little over 2 weeks ago we broke the 1 million total case marker, now we are just over the 2.5 million mark. Things have escalated quickly, with the United States accounting for 1/3 of the known cases world wide. A scary thought. But the word on the street is, it’s slowing down. Although some of us are still in areas that have just reached their peak, or getting close to it, as a whole, its…

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