Exposing an OpenVPN tunnel as a SOCKS5 proxy
This took me way too long to figure out. For a usecase that should be very common I couldn t find any tutorial on how to do this simple thing. This tutorial assumes you have a...
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Anaconda Linux installer workarounds
These are steps I took in addition to the official instructions to install Anaconda on Debian. Issue: Fix: Issue: Fix:
Delete all product images from Magento store
It all boils down to: 1. Nuking the database In your mariadb instance, execute 2. Nuking the media folder In your Magento instance, execute There, clean slate for you to populate.
Setting up Magento on docker (with nginx as reverse proxy)
Download Bitnami s Magento docker image You may want to change the external port within the yml file since it defaults to port 80 and 443. Here we use port 1234 for HTTP and 1235 for...
Removing bloatware from a Galaxy Tab S6
My Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 comes with quite minimal amount of bloatware, but they take up memory space and runs in the background. So . dropping a list of commands for removing all of them via...
SIMBA (formerly TPG) roaming review
I ve recently switched over to SIMBA from Giga to take advantage of their free 1GB monthly roaming data for a trip to Europe, which Giga is charging a cool $15 for 1GB, valid for 15...
The system could not sucessfully load the crash dump driver.
Symptoms: Cannot hibernate. Whenever you try to hibernate, PC screen goes black and stays on login screen. A check in event viewer, you see this Solution: Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl ensure DumpFilters key is empty. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{71a27cdd-812a-11d0-bec7-08002be2092f}...
How to renew Spotify API access token
There s the official way of requesting an API token, and then there s this method. There s two endpoint in which you can access Spotify s resources. There s the typical HTML generating one (open.spotify.com) and a REST API...
Astro (Malaysia) NJOI Android app network analysis
Astro recently walled up their HLS streaming endpoints by introducing AES-128 encryption on their HLS streams, so leechers can no longer watch TV for free. So decided to spend the evening poking around their NJOI...
Getting only 54mbps on a 5Ghz AC network
Solution? There are two. Switch the WIFI security settings on your access point to use only CCMP (or AES). If 1 can t be done, on Windows 10, you can force the use of CCMP (AES)...