ipmitool for Cygwin – Updated 9/4/20

I recently ran into an issue with my primary Macbook which I use for ipmi connectivity among other things. I decided to look for a way to install impitool for Cygwin on my work laptop. This not only provides me the ability to invoke ipmi functions such as power commands on my customers servers but …

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Geekbench Benchmarks

I have published some benchmarks for servers I have currently am using in my home lab. Nothing earth shattering but I use GeekBench with is a great tool for gauging performance. These are not SPEC benchmarks they have their own criteria but they are a great resource and several large organizations use them. Go here …

Cron in Cygwin for Windows

Setting up services like Cron are not the way you are used to. In Linux and Unix its pretty straight forward since you are running in your own OS instance. With Cygwin it is tightly coupled with Windows so services like SSHD and CRON actually run in Windows and not Cygwin. The steps below are …

Something is Phishy?

What are they trying to get? We all get them someone sending an email that looks official or at least close trying to obtain login info, SSN etc. Most of us int he industry know what to look for but for some it may not be clear what to look for. There are some simple …