This will be a guide on advanced tuning for a VFIO gaming VM. If you’re starting from scratch, read through the Arch Wiki guide on PCI passtrhough via OVMF. It is a great starting point and covers all of the basics. I’d recommend using libvirt instead of straight QEMU. Host hardware configuration Before we begin,
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Get the windows binary from atomicorp. https://updates.atomicorp.com/channels/ossec/windows/ At the time of writing, the latest is 3.6.0. Download and install the exe. During the installation, you will get an error. Ignore it. Next, we need to download the libpcre2-8-0.dll from the git-sdk-64 Github page in mingw32/bin/libpcre2-8-0.dll and stick it in the osscec-agent folder at C:\Program
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ELK (or Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a set of three technologies by elastic that can be combined to collect and visualize log data. Think of it as rsyslog on steroids and with pretty colors. First off, this guide is written using examples from an Arch Linux host. Theoretically, you should be able to follow
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The following applications/resources have been found to be useful when working with the Windows operating system, and should make the job of any Windows administrator easier. 1. simplewall – An extension of Windows Firewall, this program allows for on demand blocking/allowing of inbound/outbound network connections. 2. ShutUp10 – An application which provides
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Here I’ll be going in-depth on creating an IIS site solely using PowerShell commands (CLI or bust). Specifically I’ll go over creating an FTP site, but many of the steps and logic behind them are transferable to creating any other IIS site. Commands will be in bold. You may be asking why anyone would want
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Has your machine gone “out of sync” with the domain? Mine did at work, and it was very annoying. I got the following error when I tried to login today: The trust relationship between this workstation and the domain failed Luckily, the fix is pretty easy, it just requires little bit of Powershell magic to
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There are many guides on the process of adding Ubuntu to a Windows Domain. None really worked for me, so here's my attempt at making a tutorial on how to do this. With help from Rob.
Ctrl+u is super useful, which means Windows doesn't have it.