Friday, October 1, 2021

packetsifterTool

packetsifterTool is an utility to assist in reviewing a .PCAP file for certain traffic.  An example would be performing hash lookups via the VirusTotal API of exported objects found via SMB/HTTP.

https://github.com/packetsifter/packetsifterTool

List of lightweight Linux distros

Below is a list of Linux distros that are light on hardware resources.

https://antixlinux.com/

https://www.linuxliteos.com/

https://lubuntu.me/

https://puppylinux.com/

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/

http://tinycorelinux.net/


vSphere Alert Center

The vSphere Alert Center is a fling that displays alarm notifications without the use of the normal vSphere client.

https://flings.vmware.com/vsphere-alert-center

https://4sysops.com/archives/vsphere-alert-center-get-alerts-from-multiple-vcenter-servers-with-a-free-tool/


Monday, September 6, 2021

The nmcli command within Linux

The nmcli command is standard with most Linux distos.

The command below returns general information:

nmcli general status


The command below returns any network profiles such as Wi-Fi networks:

nmcli connection show

The command below displays information on network devices/adapters:

nmcli device status

https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/12989/how-to-manage-linux-network-connections-from-the-command-line/



Nmtui

Nmtui (Network Manager Text User Interface) is a terminal application which allows an user to manage his or her Wi-Fi connections on Linux distributions that use NetworkManager.

https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/13866/how-to-manage-linux-wi-fi-networks-with-nmtui/



NUMA Observer

NUMA Observer is a VMware fling that scans a VM inventory and identifies VMs with overlapping core/NUMA affinities, and then can generate alerts.

https://flings.vmware.com/numa-observer


PCjs

PCjs is a web site that has several DOS emulator entries that will execute within a web browser.  The site also has other operating systems such as Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

https://www.pcjs.org/

ThisIsWin11

ThisIsWin11 is an open source utility to allow the modification of Windows 11.  Certain applications can be uninstalled and certain features disabled.

https://github.com/builtbybel/ThisIsWin11/


Registry Explorer

Registry Explorer is an utility application to replace the existing Registry Editor within Windows.

https://github.com/zodiacon/RegExp

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/registry-explorer-is-the-registry-editor-every-windows-user-needs/

Powercfg sleepstudy report

To generate a sleepstudy report within Windows 10, launch an elevated command prompt and use the following command:

powercfg /sleepstudy /duration 10

A .HTML file will be created as output.