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Running WiFi Access point on a Raspberry PI

I needed to spoof a wireless access point with a specific mac address and was looking for a way to temporarily create a "Rogue" access point for testing. It is extremely easy to configure a WiFi Access point with a Raspberry pi that has a Wireless Interface as

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Creating Hard Link in Windows

I have used hard links abundantly in Linux, but had never tried or had the need for a hard link in windows. Today I came across an application that I needed to use, but wanted to put the data directory in a specific directory that syncs and is available to

alpine linux

Install and Configure WireGuard VPN

Wireguard is a very simple, fast and secure VPN solution. It is being widely adopted and heavily developed. Installation in Centos 7: yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers # you have to install kernel headers first yum install epel-release https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum install yum-plugin-elrepo yum install

Error: Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and > Android-Gradle modules in one project

If you encounter this error in Android Studio when trying to run an android application after freshly importing a project. You just have to delete the following files and directories: * .idea directory * .iml files Once you delete these files and directories, re-open your project and it should work.

Linux

Getting exit status of the command when using pipes

I came across a situation where i needed the exit code of last command but before passing it through the pipe. For example, running the following command would give the exit code 0, even if the first command failed : root@NTRTR:/tmp# wl -i eth0 assoclist | wc -l wl: wl

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Alpine with XFCE and VNC on a virtual machine

I was looking to create a light weight virtual machine with Graphical user interface for segmenting some of my internet browsing endeavors. I tested a couple of light weight Linux distros but ended up with just using Alpine Linux with XFCE as the Desktop Environment and VNC for remote access.

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Hosting HTTPS sites with Nginx

Youtube Version !Indroduction What is SSL/HTTPS/TLS? * SSL - Secure Sockets Layer * It is the standard technology used to encrypt the communication between the client and the server. * This is done to avoid any man in the middle attacks. * HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure * HTTPS appears in

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Nginx - SSL Passthrough Reverse Proxy

Nginx 1.9.3+ allows TCP load balancing or SSL passthrough. What this means is you can reverse proxy or load balance web applications without having to terminate SSL at the nginx. Example Configuration for name based access: stream { map $ssl_preread_server_name $name { www.somesite.com some-server; www.