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Scanners, Virtual Machines, more bash scripting, malware and openvpn are just a few of the things I've been hip deep in over the last few weeks. Things have been (and continue) fairly busy..... but I…

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Avery J. Parker

IT veteran, maker educator, and author of Network Ninja, 3D Printing Mastery, and AI Workflow Mastery. Business IT: Diversified Tech Solutions.

Updated for 2026 relevance: This is a classic tech tip from the original averyjparker.com blog. Tools and UIs may have changed. Prefer modern built-in security (Windows Security / current Linux distro tools), tested backups, and least privilege. For deeper admin tooling see Network Ninja and the classic archive index. New maker content lives under Projects.

Scanners, Virtual Machines, more bash scripting, malware and openvpn are just a few of the things I've been hip deep in over the last few weeks. Things have been (and continue) fairly busy..... but I'm hoping to get a few things organized and posted here in the next few days to serve as a dumping of links of the different trains of thought that have been going on (and for future reference.)

I don't think it will happen today as there are a few more irons in the fire still (although it might happen today yet).... Update - it will probably be several posts scattered over a few days (and some may be updates to existing pages.)

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