Some Notes on the Machines

Lots and lots of interesting apps can be installed easily, and across distros, with Snapcraft:

snapcraft.io/store

This works very well:

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/

No keys of course, but ISO media indeed, and very helpful for DISM and other fixes:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-create-installation-media

This site creates a new one for you by random generation, as is the recommended standard:

simpledns.com/private-ipv6

Try LinSSID. Graphical, 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and works very nicely. It is in many distro default repositories.

Recently acquired advice. Better speed, less wear on the drive. It is a Windows service by that name.

From the extraordinary Mike Hunsinger:

Today I learned something fascinating. You can run linux as a Windows Subsystem w/o using a vm or dual-boot. All you have to do is run PS as admin, execute this:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

reboot when prompted and then you can use the windows store to install just about any Linux distro you want.

This article describes folks running Linux GUI apps talking to Windows-native X Windows. Ponderworthy hasn’t tested this yet, but the following X server looks like a very worthy candidate:

sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/

A number of Internet tools use DNSBLs (DNS blacklists) and retrieve them by HTTP/HTTPS. Here are a number of good resources for this.

www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/7s3ug9/pfblockerng_recommended_lists/

forum.it-monkey.net/index.php?topic=17.0

supratim-sanyal.blogspot.com/2017/04/pfsense-pfblockerng-ultimate-list-of-ip.html

Get the portable version here:

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

1. Unpack it
2. Run Repair_Windows.exe as administrator
3. Click “Jump to Repairs”
4. Click “Open Repairs”
5. Uncheck all of the fixes except “Repair Internet Explorer”
6. Do it, and reboot.

Works very nicely.

A little amusement for the IPically inclined:

[jeb@jeb-pc ~]$ nslookup
> www.facebook.com
Server:		192.168.2.1
Address:	192.168.2.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.facebook.com	canonical name = star-mini.c10r.facebook.com.
Name:	star-mini.c10r.facebook.com
Address: 157.240.19.35
Name:	star-mini.c10r.facebook.com
Address: 2a03:2880:f134:83:face:b00c:0:25de
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