MacMagic – A Tool to Spoof your MAC Address

To get started this post is more geared towards Linux users, and even more so on the security side (or not). I will also cover a few definitions and explanations of what and why. What is a MAC address? A media access control address (MAC address) of a computer is a unique identifier assigned to…

War Driving Pi Automation Script

So I have completed (for now) my first script for the War Driving Pi project.  This is a ruby script.  Keep in mind this script is written for a specific project and if you did not follow my previous post Building a War Driving Pi, then do so. What it does: It can check your…

Building a War Driving Pi

War Driving Pi War driving/walking/biking/just capturing WiFi data is fun.  There is a lot that goes into this project so I will be breaking up the posts I create on the War Driving Pi into section.  I will start with how to build the War Driving Pi, I will then have the following posts (may…

For the IT Noob

So you want to get into IT, its a very broad industry and there are many avenues that you can take. I personally think all of us are IT Noobs in some way,. IT is a broad industry there is no way we can know it all so when an experienced IT personal heads down…

MacBook Pro 2016 Running Windows 10 Pro Natively

With the lack of a decent windows native laptop out on the market today for the business world, I decided to turn Apple’s new MacBook Pro into a native windows machine.  Below you will find what is needed and the steps to convert your MBP to a windows machine. What is needed: MacBook Pro 2016…

Adding Extensions to UbuntuGNOME

Ubuntu is great! and so is GNOME, when put together you almost have excellence.  To get excellence I will use extensions to the GNOME desktop environment.  I will be using the tweak-tool to make most of our changes. To begin I will install all the extension that I like to use.  Below is a list: Cpu power…

Ubuntugnome 16.04 on Asus ROG GL552V

Hello again,  I recently install Ubuntu 15.10 on my new Asus ROG GL552v.  However I am not to fond of the Unity desktop environment, so I wanted to use GNOME.  The initial install process is the same as for installing Ubuntu 15.10 as far as having to edit the grub boot loader to be able…

Linux(Ubuntu 15.10) On Asus ROG GL552V

Having good experience with Asus products in the past, when it came time this weekend for me to buy a new laptop, I didn’t think twice about purchasing another Asus product.  I was looking for a high power laptop that I could upgrade in the future.  I also wanted to run Linux as my host OS….

Shell Script to Clean Up User Files and Google Profile Info

Another little fun project I have been tasked with. I needed to find a way to keep some of our public computers clean after each use.  Mainly the problem was, some websites kept a user logged into a site even after logging out.  So that needed to be fixed! Incognito mode wasn’t doing the trick, as…

Pi – PenTab Project

Right now the PenTab project is just a fun little side project I am working on.  I want a hand held device that will run some form of Kali, also it needs to have a camera built in and I would like to have a RFID cloner as well.  This is just the base line and…

Customizing o365 QAT & Splashscreen w/ PowerShell

Hello All, Today I want to talk about Microsoft’s o365 2016 and the QAT(Quick Access Toolbar) and the annoying splashsceen.  This can be a very useful and save a lot of time verses trying to navigate through the Ribbon and Menu structure.  In the image below you will see where the QAT is located, this…

PowerShell – Wake Up Your Printers

Hello All, I was recently tasked with finding a way to make our copy machines stay out of power save mode during business hours.  So I decided to write a little PowerShell script that can do just that.  Now of coarse you will need to find a way to run this on a schedule as…