I'm currently very busy with monkey work, but have time to discuss a recent thing I tried, namely, an attempt to use Google Adwords to track when people are searching for my name. However, it failed because my home site is "under construction", and Adwords Customer Support advised me to clean up my act, make it nicer, and then they'd approve the ad or something.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Converting youtube videos to mp3 in Plex Raspberry Pi
See title.That was the goal.
Solution? Youtube-dl. But, there was some fiddling to do. I used pip.
sudo apt-get install pip python-pip
sudo pip install -U pip setuptools ##just in case
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install avconv
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-56 #or libavcodec-extra- - tab for it
sudo apt-get install libav-tools
Then you can use youtube-dl:
sudo youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyguBEc2dw4
As I mostly only stream music over the Pi, the new 128 GB USB key is ample space. It is mounted automatically at boot to /mnt/usb, so I change to that directory and download mp3 files directly to the proper folder and change the tags in Plex.
Solution? Youtube-dl. But, there was some fiddling to do. I used pip.
sudo apt-get install pip python-pip
sudo pip install -U pip setuptools ##just in case
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install avconv
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-56 #or libavcodec-extra-
sudo apt-get install libav-tools
Then you can use youtube-dl:
sudo youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyguBEc2dw4
As I mostly only stream music over the Pi, the new 128 GB USB key is ample space. It is mounted automatically at boot to /mnt/usb, so I change to that directory and download mp3 files directly to the proper folder and change the tags in Plex.
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Weekly Post - New Raspberry Pi
Somehow it's been 10 days since the last post. I'll put it down to lots of work, and also to the fact that my next project is a bit bigger than a media server.
After consulting with colleagues, I will try to successfully install VMWare ESXi on my new laptop. There may be issues with removable devices getting recognized. However, the biggest roadblock I encountered was that small-capacity USB devices (e.g. 1 GB) can't be used to install ESXi, so I had to wait until a small 16-GB USB device would arrive (plus this one has FAT32 like all sub-32 GB devices so it can be used for random systems that can't handle exFAT for instance). I'll place ESXi on this one and go from there.
Along with the USB device above I got another USB device of 128 GB size for about $35, with a smaller form factor. This should be enough for all my music and whatever videos I'd like to be wifi-streamable. I will try to combine this Plex server with bluetooth functionality to try to stream it to a bluetooth speaker, but most likely a DLNA solution would be needed, plus a "remote control" by phone probably, so I might just hold off on this whole idea. Although perhaps I could stream from Plex over wifi on a phone then send that to a bluetooth speaker.....?
In other news, I've begun to make sauerkraut. The first batch was interesting. This next batch will take more time to get through:
Somehow I missed the recent release of the Raspberry Pi Zero with wifi. It's out of stock of course, but does give one an idea of how small can you make a usable pentesting platform. Could also be useful to make an even smaller Plex server. Or you could just get a Bash Bunny.
Below, the one reason why I keep several pots of Hippeastrum bulb with nothing but some leaves most of the year:
After consulting with colleagues, I will try to successfully install VMWare ESXi on my new laptop. There may be issues with removable devices getting recognized. However, the biggest roadblock I encountered was that small-capacity USB devices (e.g. 1 GB) can't be used to install ESXi, so I had to wait until a small 16-GB USB device would arrive (plus this one has FAT32 like all sub-32 GB devices so it can be used for random systems that can't handle exFAT for instance). I'll place ESXi on this one and go from there.
Along with the USB device above I got another USB device of 128 GB size for about $35, with a smaller form factor. This should be enough for all my music and whatever videos I'd like to be wifi-streamable. I will try to combine this Plex server with bluetooth functionality to try to stream it to a bluetooth speaker, but most likely a DLNA solution would be needed, plus a "remote control" by phone probably, so I might just hold off on this whole idea. Although perhaps I could stream from Plex over wifi on a phone then send that to a bluetooth speaker.....?
In other news, I've begun to make sauerkraut. The first batch was interesting. This next batch will take more time to get through:
Somehow I missed the recent release of the Raspberry Pi Zero with wifi. It's out of stock of course, but does give one an idea of how small can you make a usable pentesting platform. Could also be useful to make an even smaller Plex server. Or you could just get a Bash Bunny.
Below, the one reason why I keep several pots of Hippeastrum bulb with nothing but some leaves most of the year:
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
HTTPS Update (1)
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks if you want to have directory indexing working on a site where SSL has been enabled and you need a directory open.
Otherwise it redirects to a 403.
Otherwise it redirects to a 403.
Upgraded wifi speeds are great
So I recently upgraded to 100+ MBit/s internet access, after navigating Comcast's purchasing process. However, not everything can support those sorts of speeds. So, I purchased an Intel PCI card that can handle gigabit speeds, for my old XPS-8300, and also a new wireless adapter (AC, dual-band). The PCI card has been a disappointment, not being able to pull down more than 20 Mbits/s, but the wifi has been much better, getting an average of 114 Mbit/s down and the same ~5 mbits/s up. It also has Bluetooth, which is fun to use for the first time ever.
Unfortunately, there have been strange issues with maintaining access to the network on the new cards. Sometimes connections get dropped on the 5 GHz network. For now, I'm attempting to alleviate that issue by restricting the 5GHz connection to 20 MHz spread instead of 40, which drops the speed to around 80 Mbits/s but also gives me channel 165 (center frequency 5825 MHz) all to myself to avoid interference from neighboring traffic.
The new Lenovo Thinkpad T460p laptop also has a persistent issue across several Linux kernels, in that the wireless chip is not supported by a recent kernel version (4.6 or 4.7), leading to the wifi just dropping out unexpectedly for a few moments, every six-seven minutes. That's unacceptable. There are some fixes, but they're not good enough, so I've been trying out different OSes, keeping in mind potentially putting VMWare Workstation on the final result. For now Fedora KDE is installed, but I may try debian as the fix to the iwlwifi driver there might work better.
Worst comes to worst, I'll try RHEL and put VMWare workstation on it for the VMs. I purchased the machine for pentesting in VMs, for general VM practice, and not much else, therefore it doesn't matter what runs underneath.
Unfortunately, there have been strange issues with maintaining access to the network on the new cards. Sometimes connections get dropped on the 5 GHz network. For now, I'm attempting to alleviate that issue by restricting the 5GHz connection to 20 MHz spread instead of 40, which drops the speed to around 80 Mbits/s but also gives me channel 165 (center frequency 5825 MHz) all to myself to avoid interference from neighboring traffic.
The new Lenovo Thinkpad T460p laptop also has a persistent issue across several Linux kernels, in that the wireless chip is not supported by a recent kernel version (4.6 or 4.7), leading to the wifi just dropping out unexpectedly for a few moments, every six-seven minutes. That's unacceptable. There are some fixes, but they're not good enough, so I've been trying out different OSes, keeping in mind potentially putting VMWare Workstation on the final result. For now Fedora KDE is installed, but I may try debian as the fix to the iwlwifi driver there might work better.
Worst comes to worst, I'll try RHEL and put VMWare workstation on it for the VMs. I purchased the machine for pentesting in VMs, for general VM practice, and not much else, therefore it doesn't matter what runs underneath.
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