Who Andy Ian Roger myself Where Bull Pot, Kingsdale When Sunday 3rd November 2019 Going underground at ~11:15, resurfaced at 15:00 Report Over the usual Inglesport breakfast we discussed options for the day's trip. There was concern that the recent rainfall might have make the planned Boundary Pot…
PowerShell can be daunting for those who are completely new to the scripting language. This is a brief post about some useful commands to know when starting out Get-Command You want to do something, but don't know the command name, or even if there is a command that does that.…
Saturday, 19th October, 2019 Only Andy and myself for this trip. We met at Inglesport for our usual breakfasts before heading off to Kingsdale. We parked in a lay-by 2 spots on from the usual Valley Entrance spot. I'd got the kit sorted a few nights earlier so once we'd…
This is my first writeup of a capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge. I started one at BSidesLeeds 2018 but never managed to get to the flag. While I didn't get to the end, I did enjoy the journey it took me on. At work recently I have been deeply involved in a…
Im on a family holiday in Lanzarote, but wanted to do a hill walk one day. I wanted a quick walk (2hrs max) and one which I could do early in the day before it got too hot. After a bit of Googling I found Montaña Blanca which was close…
Just a quick note to myself on how to setup Putty defaults for my linking using PowerShell commands to set the appropriate registry keys # Create the 'Default Settings' registry key if it doesn't exist if (-not (Test-Path -Path HKCU:\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Default%20Settings)) {New-Item -Path HKCU:\Software\SimonTatham\…
Having moved my blog to Ghost I lost a comments section for each post. This was functionality which was built into Blogger (my previous blogging platform) as a standard option, and I wanted to get it back The Ghost platform focuses primarily on the ease of creating the article, and…
This is how I think you can patch a large Windows Server estate on a regular basis balancing the needs of Infosec and a risk adverse corporation. Background In my wanderings round the internet, I've seen articles suggesting you should turn off Windows Update because of the latest patch releases…
This is how I stood up a blog platform for free using the open source Ghost software running on a free-tier Google Cloud Platform (GCP) compute instance Background For some time now I've been wanting to move my blog off the Blogger platform and something else for these reasons:-…
Like many, I have a few domain names. One thecavedb.com is registered with Amazon Web Services and their Route53 product. I did this back in October 2017 as a bit of a 'toe-in-the-water' type of affair to see how it would work. I did research of course, and found…