Puppy Diary, day #13

Another successful day for the resistance!

We successfully escaped today, and firmly believe that our captor is none the wiser.

See our fine work? Is it not fabulous?

His pathetic plastic mesh was no match for the fury of our paws. The ground gave way to our might and we threw aside the giant timber plank in our way!

Once outside we found ourselves confronted by an even stranger sight, a huge monster wielding some sort of portable vegetation destruction device. We barked mightily and it realised that our power was akin to its own, offering the truce which we so truly deserved. Such is the power of our pack, even beings much larger than us fear our wrathful licking.

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Removing old linux kernel packages

This works on dpkg based systems, so Ubuntu, Debian etc.

Now, don’t do this without knowing exactly what you’re in for. If you don’t know what kernel version you’re running or how to back up everything before you do it, please don’t come here complaining you broke your toys.

This is the final command:

I’d probably recommend running this first:

This will tell you the current kernel version that you’re running.

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Puppy Diary Day #10 Our last hope

All we can do is try and try and try. Today we waited until our captor was in the compound and distracted by his portable entertainment machine before attempting another escape. This time we tried our final option, the gate wall.

We knew it was a risky move attempting escape through this path, as it had already been secured from an earlier incident. With the recent rains we have discovered that the soil is much softer and there was a lot of debris which made it quite easy to clear our path under the fence.

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Splunk Web Interface SSL Certificates – Microsoft AD CA

So, at work we use an Active Directory Certificate Services CA for internal certificates, and I had to the So, at work we use an Active Directory Certificate Services CA for internal certificates, and I had to the boxes at work to use a proper certificate for authentication. Here’s the process (mainly so I can remember it in future!) You’ll need OpenSSL installed on your machine, if it’s windows, grab the Win32 OpenSSL binaries.

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