mosh unusable with IPv6 in Cygwin
mosh’s IPv6 support has been broken in Cygwin for a while.
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If you have insufficient space for Security Onion’s /nsm filesystems, then consider adjusting these parameters in the SOC (Administration > Configuration):
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Up until quite recently, I’ve been using YTD Video Downloader in Windows for downloading YouTube videos, but even the paid version has issues. This weekend I rediscovered the steps I took using youtube-dl (yt-dlp) during last Xmas, and made a shell script to automate everything.
Read More → Downloading and converting YouTube videos using youtube-dl (yt-dlp)Installing GNU Screen on SecurityOnion
Running the command sudo soup on your manager node gives you this warning: WARNING: If you run soup via an SSH session and that SSH session terminates, then any processes running in that session would terminate. You should avoid leaving soup unattended especially if the machine you are SSHing from is configured to sleep after […]
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0 [main] mosh-client (21652) child_copy: cygheap read copy failed, 0x0..0x800029F60, done 0, windows pid 21652, Win32 error 299 Died at /usr/bin/mosh line 320.
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I wish I did this change ages ago. 50 minutes of waiting on estimates turned into less than 20 seconds of waiting.
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It is quite difficult getting “Windows 11, version 24H2 x64 2024-05D” installed in a virtual Windows 11 client.
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At ${WORK}, we ordered one Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G6 (P/N 21FV000MMX) which came with 32 GiB of RAM. This laptop has two slots for memory modules, so we ordered and waited on one additional 32 GiB memory module.
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NetBSD 9.4 is out.
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For some reason a rebooted Security Onion manager node is perceived as a combined manager-search node (this is my hypothesis), filling up the /nsm filesystem with unnecessary, large amounts of data. Here are four shell scripts I find useful.
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