Notes and Ramblings!

These are mostly cases of interests and not in the main field of Login AS.

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Security

Sonicwall migration tool

When swapping out your Sonicwall Gen6 for a newer Gen7 the config needs to be converted,- unless you want to start from scratch. Sonicwall has

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September 10, 2024
OS

Optional features

Check available optional features: DISM /Online /Get-Capabilities Install an optional feature: DISM /Online /Add-capability /capabilityname:Media.MediaFeaturePack~~~~0.0.1.0

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June 22, 2024
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AD retention period

Check AD retention tombstone value: Import-Module ActiveDirectory $ADForestconfigurationNamingContext = (Get-ADRootDSE).configurationNamingContext $DirectoryServicesConfigPartition = Get-ADObject -Identity “CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,$ADForestconfigurationNamingContext” -Partition $ADForestconfigurationNamingContext -Properties * $TombstoneLifetime = $DirectoryServicesConfigPartition.tombstoneLifetime Write-Output

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May 28, 2024
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
JFK
JFKPresident
The sky’s the limit
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Well done is better than well said
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
You don’t get anywhere unless you try
unknown
Promise little and do much
Hebrew (on the conduct of life)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today
English Proverb
Neglect mending a small fault and it will soon be a great one
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
If you want something done right, do it yourself
unknown
Diligence is the mother of good luck
Ben Franklin (1706-1790
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Here comes Johnny..
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing
Albert Einstein
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible
Richard P. Feynman
- what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity
Dorothy Parker
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious
Albert Einstein
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it
Sudie Back
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance
S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths
Walt Disney
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
Scott Cook
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless
Thomas Edison
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked
Jeff Pesis
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
BIll Gates
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
BIll Gates introducing IBM PC in 1981CEO
Time stays long enough for those who use it
Leonardo Da Vinci
When you talk you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn sommerlig new.
Dalai Lama
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk
Thomas A. Edison
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson
Elon MuskCEO
Great companies are built on great products
Elon MuskCEO
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better
Elon MuskCEO
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon MuskCEO
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead
Ernest Hemingway
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn
Benjamin Franklin
Knowing where the trap is -that’s the first step in evading it
Frank Herbert, Dune
Can you spot the in joke that names a computer language?
Some funny guy trying to learn code (me?) 🙂
When you hit a wrong note it’s the next note that makes it good or bad
Miles Davis
For every question there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong
Henry Mencken
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear
Kali Linux? -no. ancient poet Rumi
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you
BB KingMusician
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets
Leonardo Da Vinci
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young
Henry Ford
You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
Richard Branson
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer
Albert Einstein
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change
Stephen Hawking
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
Mark Twain
Take risks now to do something bold, you wont regret it
Elon MuskCEO
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time, today.
Chineese Proverb
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge
Bertrand Russelmathematician
Learn to fail with pride -and do so fast and cleanly. Maximize trial and error -by mastering the error part.
Massimo Nicolas Taleb, Trader/writer
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm
Winston Churchill
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't
Tom WaitsMusician
“The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither.”
Confusius
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