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Re: DNS-Over-TLS Built-In & Enforced - 1.1.1.1 and the GL.iNet GL-AR750S

fak3r — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:14:23 -0000

Wow, what a cool device, they already have info up about it, it's "Coming Soon", I really want to check this out. Thanks! https://www.gl-inet.com/pro...

Re: HOWTO Use Systemd to Control VPN Connections

fak3r — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:53:18 -0000

Thanks Red Dove, I've fixed this in the source:
https://github.com/philcrye...

Will run a new build later (still need to get the CI integrated here... might be another post!)

Re: HOWTO setup a very secure webserver

fak3r — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:41:19 -0000

No problem, so the post was really about bringing 3 things together. First, nginx, with a minimal configuration (default install of things like Apache at companies are usually wide open, here just install the base to get what we need, and no more). Two, using some "best practices" rules from my nginx-globals project to harden the base install to make it ready for real world traffic so by default we're blocking many known attacks vectors. Three, use SSL, in this case Let's Encrypt, to enable more security, as well as HTTP/2, which IMO should be the standard going forward. I hope it was helpful, thanks for your comments.

Re: HOWTO setup a very secure webserver

fak3r — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:10:59 -0000

I am still active, just not posting as much as I should. Any issues? Happy to help, just let me know

Re: HOWTO fix a Nintendo 3DS with broken wifi

fak3r — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:55:34 -0000

My fix was for the wifi not working, your issue sounds different - however reseating the plug that contorls the wifi could be something to try. Of all the electronics I've messed with the DS was pretty easy, but if you're not confident in it, I would tread lightly. One thing, do you have these problems with other DS handheld besides your own? Maybe borrow one and see if you can replicate the issue with another unit. After that I'd look to forums online, or Nintento for tech support. HTH, thanks!

Re: HOWTO build nginx with HTTP 2 support

fak3r — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:18:26 -0000

so from what I understand, HTTP/2 requires the use of TLS, i.e. HTTPS, so what you're saying is that instead of

```
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri/;
}

```

have the server block on :80 check if the client supports HTTP/2 and if not fall back to 1.1 via http instead of sending it to https? I'm not sure how to do that, but I'm now looking into it. Wouldn't a 301 redirecting to https still work with 1.1 if the client didn't accept the h2 protocol? Thanks for the comment!

Re: HOWTO retrieve email with fetchmail and forward it on with procmail

fak3r — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:23:51 -0000

I don't have anything to handle that, this just assumes it's always up. Worse case, if it were down it would just fail (silently). Do you have a use case where Gmail might not be available periodically?

Re: In 76 seconds, Guided By Voices achieve Beach Boys-level perfection

fak3r — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:55:49 -0000

If there's one think I love it's how Albini records drums. Check out any of the Shellac discs for more examples.

Re: In 76 seconds, Guided By Voices achieve Beach Boys-level perfection

fak3r — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:54:08 -0000

It's my favorite too, while there are so many other great songs, and amazing GbV albums, that one is perfect, just beats B1000 by a few feet! :)

Re: In 76 seconds, Guided By Voices achieve Beach Boys-level perfection

fak3r — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:51:45 -0000

Optional Bases Opposed, so, so good!

Re: Does your employer run SSL MiTM attacks on you?

fak3r — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:04:46 -0000

Thanks Steven, my Windows admin experience has always been lacking, so I appreciate the comment. I've made note of it in the post and linked it to your comment.

Re: Library Systems Report 2014

fak3r — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:35:24 -0000

No problem, I'm here to help - hope things are going well.

Re: Library Systems Report 2014

fak3r — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:45:44 -0000

Hi Bianca, I found a backup of this file on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web...

Re: HOWTO update Googledrive icons to go with the dark Yosemite theme

fak3r — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:02:22 -0000

Cool, always nice to hear! On a related note, I migrated my site to a new static generator (Hugo), rebuilt my site, put my Disqus username in so these would load again - but it's not showing older (only a few weeks ago) posts. Looking into it

Re: HOWTO fix a Nintendo 3DS with broken wifi

fak3r — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:52:15 -0000

Sorry to hear, maybe it's a worse issue, all I can recommend is to try again and make sure the plug is firmly seated. HTH

Re: HOWTO fix a Nintendo 3DS with broken wifi

fak3r — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:16:32 -0000

Yikes, outside of the numbered small screwdrivers I have one of those 'eyeglass' fix it kits that can handle smaller screws. Maybe give that a shot? Example: http://www.amazon.com/Custo...

Re: Creating super small docker images

fak3r — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:48:53 -0000

This is exactly what I was looking for, after looking at the various Docker images we were using for a project we realized we were pulling 6 different base OSs so our builds were taking 20 mins. I started working on a minimal Debian Docker image yesterday, and matched what you listed above (Wheezy, 85.1MB https://registry.hub.docker... but want to do more. Busybox is limiting, but with your tips I think it will be a viable option, so thanks for that! Also, putting the size of the image on the page is really helpful (I pulled another minimal Debian instance up there, it was 260 MB :|), I'd like to see all images do this.

Re: HOWTO update Googledrive icons to go with the dark Yosemite theme

fak3r — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:38:02 -0000

Awesome, glad it helped! I still like the Yosemite dark theme, and it looks like others do too - there might be a workaround for your OneDrive issue here https://answers.microsoft.c...

Re: HOWTO retrieve email with fetchmail and forward it on with procmail

fak3r — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:15:45 -0000

Fetchmail will work fine for that, from my example .fetchmailrc above, you'll want to change the 'keep' to the 'fetchall' option. The options and definitions for that function are:

* nofetchall: Retrieve only new messages (default). If nothing else is specified (e.g. fetchall, keep), this means nofetchall.
* fetchall: Fetch all messages whether seen or not.
* keep: Don't delete seen messages from server.
* nokeep: Delete seen messages from server.

After your initial import of all messages from Exchange -> Gmail you can decide to change it to 'keep' or 'nokeep' going forward depending on if you want two mailstores.

Re: From Foundation to Twitter Bootstrap

fak3r — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:12 -0000

This looks great - and timely, I tried converting from Wordpress to Octopress about a year ago, but getting ~8 years of posts into markdown proved to take more time than I wanted. This year I'm attacking it again with the idea of getting all the posts into markdown, then using Jekyll to build the site. If you see my current site (in WP) it's running a bootstrap theme, and I wanted to use it for the Jekyll site too - do you have this theme on github or anywhere else? Thanks

Re: HOWTO fix a Nintendo 3DS with broken wifi

fak3r — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:20:33 -0000

I used the same screwdriver on both sets of screws, but you may want to try one the next size up. Otherwise be sure you have enough downward pressure with one hand, and then with the other hand, try to turn it. Good luck!

Re: My enhanced gitrc file

fak3r — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:37:28 -0000

Next up, vim-gitgutter, a vim plugin that shows the gif diff in the gutter (sign column).
https://github.com/airblade...

Re: HOWTO run DD-WRT on a Netgear WNDR3700

fak3r — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:57:20 -0000

Officially not yet: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/...
But it looks like there are builds out that that do work - Pre-compiled: http://www.myopenrouter.com...
Source: http://www.myopenrouter.com...

I say give it a try, with the knowledge of how to rollback first! Let us know.

Re: Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized

fak3r — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:26:53 -0000

I threw DD-WRT on my netgear the day I got it: http://fak3r.com/2011/10/25... and ran Tomato on my Linksys WRT54GL before that. I'm thinking of running DD-WRT on a regular system with 2 nics, or a OpenBSD / pf box to be my next router / AP for my networks. This vendor tie-in is whack.

Re: HOWTO enable automatic security updates in Debian

fak3r — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:33:11 -0000

I'm in complete agreement Guillermo, giving up control can lead to trouble - but with this setup, it's only targeting security updates, and emailing when there is an update. This way you're in the loop in case there's an issue, plus, my experience with Debian is that they're generally very conservative when it comes to updates, so I don't think only tagging security ones is a big risk. Regardless, worse case you have a service offline versus a vulnerable system being online.