Category: patch

Install PFSense on a Digital Ocean Droplet

This article is a rewrite of the following Original and Updated Version only with a few thoughts and observations added.

The technique described here may or may not work on other cloud/vps providers, it is imperative that you have some kind of console access so you can follow the pfsense installation steps.

Start by logging in your Digital Ocean Dashboard then create a new droplet, it actually doesn’t matter the size of the droplet but it ideally it you should enable the following options:
1) Select FreeBSD 11.X, the exact version probably doesn’t matter 11.x or 12.x are fine
2) Enable “Private Networking”, it will be nicer in the long term when you setup a VPN then you’ll be able to access your DigitalOcean VMs like a big LAN.
3) Enable “IPv6”, because ipv6 its the future, better start adapting now rather than later.
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Bad Idea of the day, Compiling PHP-52 for Debian 8

Sometimes you have to test a bad idea, or you just don’t want/can’t to let that 10+ years old ugly and unmaintained project die no matter what, and for that you might have to use a EOL unsupported PHP version

First install the necessary build tools, some of which you may not need:

apt-get install -y autoconf2.13 libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libltdl-dev libmcrypt-dev libevent-dev libmhash-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcre3-dev libpng12-dev libxml2-dev make patch xmlstarlet make patch libssl-dev libssl1.0.0

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Bad Idea of the day, Disabling VLC root check

Trailing in the deeps of the interwebs, I found an interesting Post, It teaches how to disable the root check for the VLC media player.
 
As some may know VLC rightfully refuses to run as root, and why you would want to run a video player as root is beyond me, but the post explain in some detail how to use a hex editor to search and alter the call to the ‘geteuid()’ function to a call of the ‘getppid()’ function effectively neutering the root check.
 
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