A Change in Motion – Rate of Failure Multiplied

Ethical Hacking class – Metasploit OS challenge.

A combination of the final steps of my college class, a new job and a Pwnagotchi experiment run wild – I have been quite absent. The class I am taking threw us into CTF groups with 10 different challenges to accomplish. I took on Challenge 9: Use the Category_09_Scanning_Exploitation-Challenge09-Group1-6VM for this question. The VM is…

March 18, 2025
Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Lab Setup

Well, this has been coming for a while now. I just got really distracted with fun stuff – an Ethical Hacking course + studying for my Security+ certificate. I’ve put off acquiring certs for far to long! They expire, so I’ve had to be strategic. Back on task! My Windows Server 2025 was running a…

January 29, 2025
NFS mount in Linux via fstab! Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr – how many “arrs” there?

What a journey it has been trying to get my NAS to mount in these LXCs in Proxmox. I’ve tried quite a bit of variations in the MOUNT command and ultimately landed on: I settled on this simple approach after trying to authenticate SMB and later NFS with a username/password approach for about a week.…

January 19, 2025
Visual Studio Code, oh my my! Homepage configuration – what is an .env file?

Where was this hiding at?! Two massive gains in the application space in less than 24 hours. I guess I am learning quite quickly! And more importantly, looking for interactive solutions! Look at this beauty! I remember when Apple first dropped ARM processors on their Macbook line. Lovely things like this were not even options!…

January 6, 2025
Back from the holidays – LXC K8S, viable or not?

Beginning again with the great work left off on from the previous post – I have started up fixing errors. Two things here – kubeadm is trying to reach out to the Internet. Not sure if that is going to cause any complications later. For the time being I am going to to disregard that…

January 3, 2025
I’m taking a break on the LXC K8S. Let me get WordPress live on a Windows Server.

There are so many privilege requirements to explore with the K8S LXC containers. See the last post for all the excitement! Configuring with “kubeadm” over manually provisioning each node is a learning experience for sure. Harder since it’s in a LXC – lot of unknowns versus my RPi cluster. Going to take a break so…

December 22, 2024
Windows Server & CEPH Install. Silly ISO problem resolved.

Lets us begin again! I don’t really know why, but I have had the most annoying experience getting Windows Server to install on my Proxmox Cluster. WS22 refused to acknowledge the VirtIO drivers I was using and after trying multiple versions of the drivers my cluster decided to take a dirt nap on elle3 during…

December 20, 2024