Edventures in Normalcy

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • KeePass for Web, ssh, MSTSC (RDP), ftp, sftp, and WinSCP

    KeePass and You, Scheming the PC KeePass (Professional Edition, I am using the 2 version Portable Package) is a phenomenal tool, that can save you insurmountable amounts of time if configured well.  I have taken the time to use it for numerous schemes and desktop environments to have it work best for me.  Find my…

  • True Story

  • Enumerate or Count Active Connections on a Given Port

    Enumerate Active Connections on port 1433: netstat -aon | find “:1433 ” Count Active Connections on port 1433: netstat -aon | find /c “:1433 ”   To Enumerate and Count Active Connections on port 1433 and 443 ECHO This is the log for %date%: >> C:\logs\log.txt ECHO Current number of connections to 1433: >> C:\logs\log.txt…

  • Locating crontab scheduled tasks in *nix

    If you need a list of all users crontab tasks, run this as root: for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do crontab -u $user -l; done   will loop over each user name listing out their crontab. The crontabs are owned by the respective users so you won’t be able to see another user’s…

  • Find Symbolic Links in *nix

    Find all symbolic links on a linux OS: find / -type l -exec ls -l {} \; Or if you want to output it to a file: find / -type l -exec ls -l {} \; > /home/admin/symbolic_link_list.txt

  • Granting MySQL Permissions and Deleting them

    Granting permissions in MySQL, localhost and external hosts must be separately run, the % sign means any external host and will not account for local connections: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@”localhost” IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@”%” IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; But say you wanted to then remove…

  • Perception is Relative

    Actions speak louder than words, and I find some actions speak poorly.  I find the LGBT world has a duality to it.  I belong to the transgender community, which is where I run into this the most.  For example, I pulled an article from here: http://www.cambio.com/2015/09/17/what-happened-when-i-revealed-to-men-on-tinder-that-im-a-transg/ The body is below, images are clickable, and although…

  • My Personal Shangri-La

    I have once heard rumor that somewhere there is still a Chi Chi’s. I imagine it hidden inside a mountain where Shangri-La is. So on some random corner is a long lost land, is the best Mexican Restaurant chain ever, known only to the locals of Shangri-La.   Oh wait, I found them: https://www.cityplug.be/en/Brussels/A42AV16Z_Restaurant_Chi-Chi-s-Anspach.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi%27s

  • Solved iMessages Txt Msgs Coming From Email Address

    To correct the issue, on the iPhone, go to iMessages To check if you have the problem yourself: Go to settings > Messages > Send and Receive Under “You can be reached by iMessage at”, if your phone number is not ticked, you have this problem. To fix (this worked for me): Go to Settings…

  • A Troubleshooters Guide to Process Monitor (ProcMon)

    Process Monitor, by SysInternals under Microsoft, shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. To do this it registers itself with the Event Tracing for Windows to receive activity reports from both the file system and the windows registry. It can be found here: Windows Sysinternals Process Monitor. Display Overview Some basics of what to…

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