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2025 Tap And Map

 Tap And Map is back with new and improved installation instructions!   Here is an old video showing what TapAndMap is, for those who may not know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRfQzBjrhEE you'll notice that it's been a while since I've touched Tap And Map.   Because it's been so long since I built this, the old installation instructions would NEVER work to build it today (Feb 2025).   Plus, there was a Google Maps API bug that has troubled me all this time, as Google Maps would decide not to reload the page and I'd have to clear my history (lame).  Because my old code was built as an all-in-one method, so packets were sniffed, looked up, displayed, and logged, all in one large monolithic module, there was no easy means to troubleshoot.    So I've now decided to Sniff packets, lookup their IP information, and store the data in one script, and read that file, parse and publish html files in a separate module.  That allowed me to b...
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Wordle Helper

 I recently started playing Wordle, and while I love the game, I kind of got annoyed when I had guessed a couple of words and had only a few left, but had to go through the letters in my head one by one trying to figure out what was possible.  Brute-forcing letters like that is the job of a computer.... So I made a program to help me figure out possible letters more quickly.   Basically, I took all the 5-letter English words, and knock them down based on what is known to be missing, what is known to be there, what is where, and what is not where.   I hope that someone else enjoys this program.   #!/usr/bin/python3 '''  This script reads in a dictioary of 5-letter english (supposedly) words (I AWK'd the five-letter words from a dictionary that may include non-real words),  and prints out words that remain after the User Defined Variables are entered Enter User Defined Variables with single quotes, separated by commas (i.e. 'o' or ['t','y'...
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Security Onion on the Antsle

My Setup of Security Onion on the Antsle: Recently my IDS box, an Intel Atom D2500 Fanless Mini-ITX PC, D2500CCE, died.  Truth be told, I think it came from the factory in a bad state, as I originally thought I had a bad graphics driver, but I then noticed that, after much troubleshooting, it wasn't a driver issue at all.  The box just sometimes wouldn't boot up correctly with video.  It seems heat related, something like not enough thermal paste on the CPU, as after it is powered off for a while it is more likely to boot than when it is warm.  Along with that issue, this box maxed out at 4GB of RAM (only has 2 memory slots, each of which will only take a 2GB card max) and had a single processor, so it was under powered for Security Onion. So, I decided to quit limping along on P.O.S. boxes, and buy a little more heavyweight box for my networked IDS.   Security Onion requires a minimum of 8GB of RAM, and 4 cores per their specs page htt...
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