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  • How to get started learning Infra with a Homelab
    Here is my recommendation for quickly learning at least the basics of infrastructure: Hardware: Connect them all to your Lab network and install your hypervisor of choice onto all of them. If you can get 4 computers I would make one of them a dedicated
  • Explaining The WRCCDC VyOS Script
    Writeup of Wasabi’s VyOS script for WRCCDC.Writeup by Payton Erickson (UCI’s CCDC team) The setup of the Script This part just gets the interfaces, but normally eth0 is WAN and eth1 is LAN. Now the script gets a few things needed for the configuration of
  • AWS Lightsail WordPress Let’s Encrypt Renewal
    Problem: Let’s Encrypt certificate expired Time: 1 minute Solution: All you have to do is run a single command: Enter the domain names of your website and press enter. I choose to enable HTTP -> HTTPS redirection, because I want users to use the https
  • CCDC Powershell Script For Password Changes
    Problem: In the CCDC competition often the default passwords are insecure and it is good practice to immediately change all passwords on the AD server. We are then required to send a csv file with all the updated passwords for each user. Solution: A powershell
  • System board 5V PG Voltage Failure
    Date: Oct. 06, 2021 Time: 1 hour Problem: My Dell Poweredge r510 abruptly shutdown, and would not power back on. How the problem was resolved: Was the problem resolved? No, the initial problem was fixed, the server booted and all checks were good, but it