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Zack's off to the Air Force

Our son graduated High School and is off to serve and defend our country with the United States Air Force (the 2nd hardest branch of the service you can join based on ASVAB score requirements with Coast Guard being the highest/hardest to qualify for) As you could probably imagine as a parent how exciting and scared you are for your kid even though many of us have been there without many of the luxuries that they have now a days. From what I heard they have scaled back quite a bit due

July 25, 2022

Netshot Compliance Tool

Many of us have to supply a report showing our devices are compliant based on auditors requirements. What tool out there does compliancy checks? A great free opensource compliancy tool is called netshot. The open source compliance network software. Freely available : www.netfishers.onl/netshot

Cowboy Denny in Tools

July 18, 2022

git issues on Mac OS X after upgrade

My MacBook Pro got updated to MacOS Monterey (12.2.1) and since then, I can't use git at all. When I run git I get this USDETMNBSJEMD6R:~ iSupport$ git xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun So in reading about others having this issue they just run USDETMNBSJEMD6R:~ iSupport$ xcode-select --install xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools Th

Cowboy Denny in General

April 26, 2022

Create Visio Diagrams without Visio

Being a mac user and sometimes linux user (never Windows), I miss Visio since that's how I created my diagrams. I tried many different software replacements to just be let down. I stumbled on lucid.app which my initial reaction was, no way a web based anything could come close to Visio but man was I wrong. Yes you can import stencils Yes you can import Visio diagrams, OmniGraffle, Gliffy, Draw.io Yes you can export Visio Is it free? No but its very affordable o

Cowboy Denny in Tools

April 18, 2022

Wordpress Starter Help

Some of us dabble a bit in Wordpress but we had to start somewhere which means we got help from somewhere. This blog entry is in hopes to give some material to help a newbie in the world of Wordpress. There are a few different great tools to use to build/customize your site and one of them I like to use is called Elementor. Here is a great starter guide/video that is a bit older but he does a great job at walking you through building a wordpress site. This video focu

Cowboy Denny in Website

March 23, 2019

Working with Offshore

Many companies regardless if its I.T. related, medical or anything really, businesses have discovered they can save a ton of money but utilizing resources over sea's where the cost of living is much cheaper which in turn means talent is also less expensive. Obviously some downfalls come with using overseas no face to face via in office conversations no participation in out of office gatherings biggest issue many times is language barrier as recorded below

Cowboy Denny in General

November 15, 2018

Military Career STEP 6 (Tech Training)

Technical School typically comes after your Basic Training. Now based on what job the military assigns you depends on where you will be going for your schooling. Example for the Air Force they have four bases for Technical Training which include: Goodfellow AFB, TX Lackland AFB, TX (so in short you go to training where you went to basic) Sheppard AFB, TX Keesler AFB, MS

July 13, 2018

Marching isn’t easy for everyone

check out this scene from Amazing Race. They just had to march and this one guys made me laugh so hard watching him march and thought you might enjoy as well.

July 3, 2018

Military Career STEP 5 (Basic Military Training)

As you can imagine this is one of the toughest parts about joining the service. Some call it boot camp, some call it basic training and some call it hell. During this time, they are testing you mentally, emotionally and physically. No matter what branch of service they need to make sure before they hand you a gun or work on a multi-million dollar piece of equipment or put others in harms way the military needs to know that you won't loose your crap when shit gets real. How long is Basic

July 2, 2018

Military Career STEP 4 (MEPS)

Military Entry Processing Station (MEPS) - Physical Testing This will include things like: Various medical exam (prepare to cough, lol) Background check (no criminal record, felonies, etc) Delayed Entry Program (DEP) swear-in Job counseling Choose your availability date for basic training Medical Examination They are making sure you pass physically regardless of what you told the recruiter. While at MEPS you will be examined by a Physician so

June 26, 2018

Military Career STEP 3 (Required Documents)

Now that you got your ASVAB score where you want it you need the following documents so go ahead and start putting them together so you aren't rushing to find them last minute Birth Certificate Social Security Card (not a copy) High School diploma or GED Drivers License College Transcripts (if any) Medical Records Casefile?? not sure what this is but the recruiter will tell ya Some notes you should know If you are wearing a unifo

June 12, 2018

Military Career STEP 2 (ASVAB TEST)

Is the military your choice for a career? It's not a bad choice and if you ask me I believe we Americans should do what Italians do and require everyone who graduates serve their country for a minimum of two years. Then they have the choice to either stay with the military and work towards and nice retirement or go the public sector and find a job with a company. If the military is your choice, you should probably practice the ASVAB testing which practice testing is available on this webs

June 1, 2018

Military Career STEP 1 (Recruitment Interview)

When you are 17 you can go talk to a recruiter and you should have some questions to ask your recruiter regardless of what branch of service you want to join. If you set a time to meet a military recruiter, be courteous and show up at that time. Prove you're reliable and a person of your word by arriving at the time you said you would. It shows you respect your own time and that of the person you're meeting. Be on Time!! One important note to keep in mind: Just because you talk to a re

May 22, 2018

SSL mutual authentication

A browser connecting to the secure server will use the SSL protocol to connect and verify the server’s certificate. However, customers can also use Mutual Authentication to have both the client and server use signed certificates to authenticate each other. With Mutual Authentication, both client and server will provide signed certificates for verification. How Mutual Authentication Works Client sends ClientHello message proposing SSL options. Server responds with ServerHello me

Cowboy Denny in SSL

February 17, 2018