Grumpy Admin here, yes it is me! Apologies for like just going 404. The day job has taken up a lot of my time recently, and a lot of my time has been on non-windows systems and documentation and design and security work. This combined with a young growing family and some excellent films being released. Has resulted in a… Read more →
Hey All, Wow it been such a long time since I have blogged, this has made Grumpy Admin… well, Grumpy. It a useful outlet and provides a method of allowing me to focus, while sharing solutions to things that make me Grumpy! I think you all (all 4 people that read my blog) deserve an explanation and perhaps some promises… Read more →
TLDR – Create sudo user in Kali Linux, so Google Chrome works with sandbox mode enabled Hey Everyone, I’m a Windows guy! I used Windows, administered Windows, developed on Windows – Windows is how I pay my bills. I also touch Linux and some security stuff, and as you know these two things cross over quite a bit. At least… Read more →
Grumpy Admin is lazy, we all know he is lazy – no one more than his partner! So like a large portion of the internet world Grumpy Admin uses Chrome and uses the save password options in chrome. Yes I agree that perhaps I should use lastpast or something else… but did I mention I am lazy! But security is… Read more →
PowerShell and KeePass Brute Force Password Reclamation Happy New Year from Grumpy Admin! Well now the nice holiday season is over, coming back to work with a thump is not nice…. it just makes me grumpy. I was a bit busy before the holiday, so I did not get to write this to how I wanted to, so I thought… Read more →
Hey People, Its grumpy admin here! OMG – so tired, lots of things have been happening and going on in my world – My CISSP endorsement came through, so now apparently I’m a cyber-security professional… never mind… it feels good to be part of club! ha ha ha not really, we all know it’s a HRFirewall bypass qualification really, but… Read more →
Grumpy Admin here (again), Doesn’t it make you grumpy, that you write a blog post, then directly after you publish it you actually find a better way of doing something you mention in the blog post. Well we all learn stuff don’t we… Finding a better way of doing stuff is what this always about! Little did I know that… Read more →
Good News, UPDATED: check https://hazzy.techanarchy.net/nano/file-copy-session-improvements/ for a better method of sending the nano01 djoin file to the nano server! 🙂 Grumpy Admin passed his CISSP exam, bad news, I have to wait to see if I get endorsed and welcome to become a CISSP! Fingers crossed, or my boss won’t be too happy! Now back to the real world of being… Read more →
Grumpy Admin here! OMG my brain is hurting. This week has been hard! Grumpy admin, through his own stupidly did a decent business case to his manager and got his self a place on a CISSP course. Now, after due consideration it was decided that I should attend a boot camp, the first camps we looked at were cheap… Read more →
Grumpy Admin here! It’s one of the simple things in life in IT operations, as most applications are now “web apps” or require websites for things! I often get asked to quickly deploy an IIS web server, and copy a static html files for it, or install something or other blab la bla… you know the score and there a… Read more →
