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Google Cloud Platform SDK are a set of tools and libraries that allows you to interact with Google Cloud products and services. For RHEL/Fedora Linux the instructions for installing directly from repositories are pretty straight forward, however this is not the case for OpenSuse. You can always try downloading the generic Linux zip files with the SDK current version, and manage the updates through gcloud components update. However this a manual process and I wanted to install it using Zypper on my OpenSuse Tumbleweed installation.

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My favorite Security orientated Distro is Parrot GNU/Linux. I’ve always trying to help the spanish community of Parrot through its Telegram Channel and its official forum. One of our latest doubt was about installing Powershell Empire on the latest Parrot (4.3). As it is not officially supported by the Empire guys, it needs some minor tweaks to make it work. So here we go.. Requirements: Parrot Security GNU/Linux 4.3 Latest Git version of Powershell empire Installation of Powershell Empire We need to clone the Empire repository from Github:

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When I decided switch back from window 10 to Arch on my Laptop (WSL wasnt enough), I wanted to keep my full disk encryption, and I wanted to keep enjoying a responsive Windows Manager. Historically KDE has been a very heavy windows manager, but with the introduction of Plasma 5, things have changed. KDE is now mucho more faster than Gnome 3, and from my personal perspective, much nicer to my eye.

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A few days ago, I was talking with a friend who lives in a heavily Internet censored country, about options to circunvent the government controls. He used to rely on TOR, but lately the ISP on his country started to be able to block it also. Looking for alternatives we decided to try a different way of covert channel. We decided to use DNS. If you own a domain, and you have a server capable of using port 53 UDP.

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Recently I got a request to install a test server with Libertya ERP on it so new employees can touch, break and learn. The production server was kind of full to host another VM for this purpose, so I decided to use a Digital Ocean dropplet to host the application. First, Libertya is an ERP quite popular here in Argentina because of its integration with our Tax Agency. Its installation is not very straight forward, it depends on Java 6, and thats makes the installation on newer systems very messy.

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