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Ethical Hacking Resources

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:February 7, 2025
  • Post category:Geeky Things/Network-Hardware/Open Source/tutorials

Revisions:09 February 2025 Hacktivism https://eirenicon.org/2025/02/09/hacker-communities Recent news developments indicate a resurgence in hacktivist activities, with groups like Anonymous and others engaging in various cyber operations: Anonymous: 9 February, 2025 [redacted]is…

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Alpine Linux

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:January 6, 2024
  • Post category:Distro Respins & Customization/Open Source/tutorials

If you are looking for a tiny footprint, secure, Linux (UX) OS, Alpine Linux may be the ticket. Even I have been able to successfully install Alpine in a virtual…

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“Ricing” desktops

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:January 29, 2020
  • Post category:Open Source

For those who are unfamiliar, "ricing" is a small but interesting (to me anyway) *nix sub-culture. These are folks who focus on transforming lower resource environments into works of art,…

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bspwm (an update)

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

I am officially up & running using bspwm. I have made some changes to my original exploration plans; shall we say, I have taken a few "diversions". These diversions include:…

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bspwm – an Exploration

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:June 24, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

Let me start this lengthy post with stating that I like antiX very much. Having said that, you will note (in this post) there are things I find less than…

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bspwm-panels

Tiny Panel Research Gathering

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:June 24, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

I am trying to gather information, experiences and notes on the use of "Tiny Panel Bars". I am not really concerned on which distro base you 'found your understanding' or…

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antiX19alpha (Xfce & Openbox) Status Update

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:June 6, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

For those interested in my desktop build progress, below are some screenshot links to images of my work on antiX19alpha desktops. The install I am creating has all the traditional…

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Converting antiX to an XFCE4 based Distro (a tutorial)

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:May 26, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

Note: this tutorial is generally applicable as a tutorial to almost any Debian based distro you might wish to convert or build into a tailored xfce installation. You will need…

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Xfce4 Thunar Custom Action Tricks

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:February 3, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

Image Conversion Function(s) The following Thunar Custom Actions require that you have imagemagick installed. Here are the commands for each. To Convert jpg to png; the action command is: To…

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Appearance Condition Settings
Appearance Condition Settings (for both Custom Actions)

Searching & Converting PDF, DJVU documents

  • Post author:ManyRoads
  • Post published:January 31, 2019
  • Post category:Open Source

Have you found a PDF file that is not digitally searchable, and you really wish it was? Do you wish you could easily convert monstrously huge PDF files to more…

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