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Athan on Google Home (via Home Assistant)

I have a Google Home which I have been using for various things as I very slowly build my collection of “smart” devices.

One thing I was very interested in making my Google Home do is to have the Athan play when it is time for prayer. Unfortunately, there isn’t any native way to do this with a Google Home at the moment.

I have seen people do it using IFTTT, but as I am already using Home…

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Cisco ASA 9.2 on Cisco ASA 5505 with Unsupported Memory Configuration Fail

The Cisco ASA 5505 officially supports a maximum of 512MB RAM.

Last year I wrote a post detailing a small experiment I done where I upgrade both my Cisco ASA 5505s to use 1GB sticks of RAM, double the officially supported value.

Since then, it has worked great and both boxes have been chilling out in my rack, but recently Cisco released ASA 9.2.

The full list of new features and changes can be…

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#ASA #Cisco #Home Lab #Networking #Virgin Media

Update: Litecoin RPMs for Fedora/RHEL

Just a small update to my previous post.

I didn’t have much to do yesterday night, so I decided to just create a “proper” repository for my Litecoin RPMs for Fedora/RHEL.

This time I built RPMs for both Fedora 20 and RHEL 6, for both i386 and x86_64.

Disclaimer

If you use any packages from my repository, you do so at your own discretion and risk. you will be solely responsible for any damage to…

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Securing Your Postfix Mail Server with Greylisting, SPF, DKIM and DMARC and TLS

A few months ago, while trying to debug some SPF problems, I came across “”Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance” (DMARC).

DMARC basically builds on top of two existing frameworks, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), and DomainKeys…

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#DKIM #DMARC #Email #EPEL #Greylisting #OpenDKIM #OpenDMARC #Postfix #Postgrey #SMF-SPF #SMTP #Spam #SPF #TLS

I’m Hamzah Khan, System Administrator/Ruler of the Internet, and This Is How I Work

Lifehacker regularly features a segment where they interview famous people and ask them how they…

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#Hamzah Khan #Ruler of the Internet #System Administrator

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Upcoming Games I Want

I’m not really much of a “gamer”, though I do play some games occasionally.

I love the Final…

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#Final Fantasy #Final Fantasy XIII #Final Fantasy XV #Lightning Returns #Metal Gear Rising #Metal Gear Solid #Metal Gear Solid V #PS3 #PS4

Home Lab Network Redesign Part 2: The Edge Routers

As I have never used a Mikrotik router before, there was quite a big learning curve.

I’ve only really used Cisco/Juniper like interfaces to configure routers, and I’m a fan of them. Even though I have gotten a little more used to the RouterOS command…

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#Mikrotik #Networking