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Critical Thinking, Daniel Drasin, and Debunkery

catwhisperer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:50:00 +0000

We are at a time in human history where there is an overriding need for critical thinking. Sadly, though, humanity sees it’s lack where humanity needs it the most. So I wanted to share one of my favorite critical thinking tools for the past decade+. That tool is an essay by Daniel Drasin, written in… Continue reading Critical Thinking, Daniel Drasin, and Debunkery

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Apache2 log database population via Python

catwhisperer — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:57:29 +0000

Version 1.10 INTRODUCTION Years of Apache2 log entries necessitated an application to feed access log files to a database. Population of a database via Python was the fastest and easiest way to get to analysis, though other languages may operate faster at the hardware level. Python already has a lot of the database libraries precanned,… Continue reading Apache2 log database population via Python

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Tailing the Apache Access Log

catwhisperer — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:29:21 +0000

As a system administrator it is sometimes useful to watch things happening live in Apache access log. Tail would be the command usually used to accomplish the task, while logged in as an appropriate user through a secure shell session. Tailing the Apache Access Log was a resolution to a problem that I encountered when… Continue reading Tailing the Apache Access Log

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Boosting Windows 10/11 Updates with an Effective Update Script

catwhisperer — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:23:55 +0000

Several writers have reported long delays in using the Windows 10/11 update GUI. After reading the comments on a recent Krebs on Security post, I decided to share a couple of PowerShell update scripts that I use for Windows 10 updating. The following two scripts were something I came across while working as system administrator… Continue reading Boosting Windows 10/11 Updates with an Effective Update Script

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308 response code – redirection and messing with daemons…

catwhisperer — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:05:13 +0000

This post is part of the “.htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite” series. The most useful feature of .htaccess and mod_rewrite, in the opinion of this author, is redirection. Redirection is identified to a browser by response code 308. By redirection we mean mapping any URI into any other URI. Response code 308 is the redirection… Continue reading 308 response code – redirection and messing with daemons…

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LLM Dall-E Fun while researching

catwhisperer — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:36:53 +0000

The large language models (LLM), GPT-4 and Gemini, are great for research and training. I’ve been using them for legal research, examining ideas in physics and testing it’s capabilities with circuit generation. They are also excellent at generation of code in pretty much any programming language. So having read about that scientific paper that made… Continue reading LLM Dall-E Fun while researching

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response code 410 – It’s gone, son…

catwhisperer — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:26:18 +0000

One of the pains of being a website administrator is securing the login to the administrative portion of your website. Ideally, the website tells someone other than the true administrator to bugger off in a nice way. What better way for that to happen than for the website to tell the visitor: “That login? It’s… Continue reading response code 410 – It’s gone, son…

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.htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite

catwhisperer — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:36:59 +0000

For the holidays, I decided to gift readers with a series of some useful but fun posts titled “.htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite“. The series is dedicated to the fun you can have with Apache redirection while keeping tight security of your website. Though not for the faint of heart, one can have fun toying… Continue reading .htaccess redirection fun with mod_rewrite

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Why is your fly open to the world?

catwhisperer — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 03:45:19 +0000

Do you walk around often with your fly open? In a word, NO! So why is your IT stuff open to the world? Think about it… After years of experiencing consistent and repetitive attacks on the secure shell and WordPress login, I started to wonder why that was occurring. What is the reason that there… Continue reading Why is your fly open to the world?

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Long Delay in Login to Desktop on Kali 6.4.0 and Ubuntu 22.04

catwhisperer — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:08:30 +0000

In recent weeks both OS’ show a long delay in login to seeing the session desktop. The delay increased by 300-600%, up to 140+ seconds. The machine in question is an older HP workstation, which normally took less than 20 seconds. The problem is present regardless of whether the machine is rebooted or started from… Continue reading Long Delay in Login to Desktop on Kali 6.4.0 and Ubuntu 22.04

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