I don't have a clue

I'm so very tired. It's almost all the time now. 

Server Cleanup - because I'll need this later

$tempfolders = @("C:\Windows\Temp\*", "C:\Windows\Prefetch\*", "C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\temp\*", "C:\Users\*\Appdata\Local\Temp\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\Neos Eureka S.r.l\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\EurekaLab s.a.s\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\*", "C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\*persist*.*","C:\ProgramData\Exclaimer Ltd\Mail Disclaimers\SentItemsUpdate\Cache\*","C:\Users\*\*.regtrans-ms","C:\Users\*\appdata\local\*.regtrans-ms","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\*.regtrans-ms","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\*.blf","C:\Users\*\*.tm.blf","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MessageAnalyzer\CompilationCache\*","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MessageAnalyzer\CodecCache\*","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\*","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Cache\*","C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\SquirrelTemp\*", "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE\*", "C:\Windows\debug\UserMode\*.bak")
Remove-Item $tempfolders -force -recurse

$DaysToDelete = 0

$temporaryIEDir = "C:\users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\*" ## Remove all files and folders in user's Temporary Internet Files.
$cachesDir = "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Caches"  ## Remove all IE caches.
$cookiesDir = "C:\Documents and Settings\*\Cookies\*" ## Delets all cookies.
$locSetDir = "C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\Temp\*"  ## Delets all local settings temp
$locSetIEDir = "C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*"   ## Delets all local settings IE temp
$locSetHisDir = "C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\History\*"  ## Delets all local settings history

Get-ChildItem $temporaryIEDir, $cachesDir, $cookiesDir, $locSetDir, $locSetIEDir, $locSetHisDir -Recurse -Force -Verbose -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Where-Object { ($_.CreationTime -lt $(Get-Date).AddDays(-$DaysToDelete)) } | remove-item -force -Verbose -recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$DaysToDelete = 0

$crLauncherDir = "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Chromium\User Data\Default"
$chromeDir = "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default"
$chromeSetDir = "C:\Users\*\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default"

$Items = @("*Archived History*", "*Cache*", "*Cookies*", "*History*", "*Login Data*", "*Top Sites*", "*Visited Links*", "*Web Data*")

$items | ForEach-Object {
$item = $_
Get-ChildItem $crLauncherDir, $chromeDir, $chromeSetDir -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
    Where-Object { ($_.CreationTime -lt $(Get-Date).AddDays(-$DaysToDelete)) -and $_ -like $item} | ForEach-Object -Process { Remove-Item $_ -force -Verbose -recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue }
}

Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "#######################################################"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Powershell commands to delete cache & cookies in Firefox, Chrome & IE browsers"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "By Lee Bhogal, Paradise Computing Ltd - June 2014"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "VERSION: 2"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "#######################################################"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "CHANGE_LOG:
v2.4: - Resolved *.default issue, issue was with the file path name not with *.default, but issue resolved
v2.3: - Added Cache2 to Mozilla directories but found that *.default is not working
v2.2: - Added Cyan colour to verbose output
v2.1: - Added the location 'C:\Windows\Temp\*' and 'C:\`$recycle.bin\'
v2:   - Changed the retrieval of user list to dir the c:\users folder and export to csv
v1:   - Compiled script"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "#######################################################"
""
#########################
"-------------------"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 1: Getting the list of users"
"-------------------"
# Write Information to the screen
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Exporting the list of users to c:\users\%username%\users.csv"
# List the users in c:\users and export to the local profile for calling later
dir C:\Users | select Name | Export-Csv -Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv -NoTypeInformation
$list=Test-Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv
""
#########################
"-------------------"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 2: Beginning Script..."
"-------------------"
if ($list) {
    "-------------------"
    #Clear Mozilla Firefox Cache
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 3: Clearing Mozilla Firefox Caches"
    "-------------------"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Clearing Mozilla caches"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan
    Import-CSV -Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv -Header Name | foreach {
            Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\cache\* -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\cache\*.* -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\cache2\entries\*.* -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\thumbnails\* -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\cookies.sqlite -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\webappsstore.sqlite -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\chromeappsstore.sqlite -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            }
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Clearing Mozilla caches"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Done..."
    ""
    "-------------------"
    # Clear Google Chrome
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 4: Clearing Google Chrome Caches"
    "-------------------"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Clearing Google caches"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan
    Import-CSV -Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv -Header Name | foreach {
            Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache2\entries\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cookies" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Media Cache" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cookies-Journal" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            # Comment out the following line to remove the Chrome Write Font Cache too.
            # Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\ChromeDWriteFontCache" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            }

    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Done..."
    ""
    "-------------------"
    # Clear Internet Explorer
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 5: Clearing Internet Explorer Caches"
     "-------------------"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Clearing Google caches"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan
    Import-CSV -Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv | foreach {
            Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Temp\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Windows\Temp\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\`$recycle.bin\" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            }

    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Done..."
    ""
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "All Tasks Done!"
    } else {
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Session Cancelled"  
    Exit
    }

FreeBSD 12.0 Upgrade steps, because I'll forget.

This is pulled form https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/installation.html and the portmaster man page, an online version can be found here https://gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?topic=PORTMASTER

#Edited 10/09/19 with comments

#I'm not 100% sure why you do this first, but I guess its to make sure the system you're on is up to date before upgrading
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

#This part starts thea actual upgrade to 12.0 by fetching all the components needed for the upgraded
freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.0-RELEASE

#After fetching everything this does the actual install
freebsd-update install

#now we have to reboot into the newly installed system
shutdown -r now

#this finishes the first part of the upgrade
freebsd-update install

#now at this point you need to reinstall all the pkgs/ports to the new ABI
#I'm going to use portmaster to do this and this is more or less from their man page.
cd /root
portmaster --list-origins > ~/installed-port-list
#this is because we're going to install these manually
#screen is optional and only matters if you're going to use it
vi ~/installed-port-list #remove pkg, portmaster, and screen

#I don't know why I have to do this, but it made a bunch of errors go away so I'm adding it to the process
pkg bootstrap -f
portsnap fetch auto
portmaster -ty --clean-distfiles
portmaster -Faf
pkg delete -afy
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

#the man page says to copy anything you need from /usr/local/etc so I just copied everything temporarily
mkdir /root/etc
cp -Rf /usr/local/etc/* /root/etc/

#I commented this out so you don't just copy and paste and run this like a moron
#Manually check /usr/local and /var/db/pkg to make sure that they are really empty
#cd /usr/local/
#ls
#rm -rf /usr/local/*
#cd /var/db/pkg
#ls
#rm -rf /var/db/pkg/*

#now we're going to reinstall pkg, portmaster and optionally, screen
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
make install clean
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
make install clean
#now using screen is totally optional, but since I'm installing all the ports again I find it helpful in case I step away or fall asleep while they're compiling.
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/screen
make install clean

cd /root
screen

#so the -P says to use a pkg if one's available and you didn't need to customize the port install
#the -y answers yes to all prompts
#the --no-confirm doesn't ask the user to confirm the list of ports
#the -D doesn't clean the distfiles
#you can change these flags to your own needs just consult the man page
portmaster -P -y --no-confirm -D `cat ~/installed-port-list`

#in case you're not familiar with screen the main things you need to know are
#ctrl+a then d to leave session
#screen -r to rejoin session

#assuming your install went well you're supposed to do this one last time, again don't know why, but that's what they tell you to do
freebsd-update install

#now we're supposed to do one final reboot before using our system in production
shutdown -r now

#if you're using ZFS (and why wouldn't you be?) remember to do this
#you can probably do this earlier, but I forgot until I did a zpool status -v
zpool upgrade
Some of this can probably be changed, I don't know, but so far it has worked.

A few new one-liners

I like to automate and/or simplify* a lot of processes that I run on my stuff here are a few I am posting for the sake of having them somewhere

FreeBSD Updates

cd /usr/ports/ ; df -hl ; pkg update ; pkg clean -y ; portsclean -C -D -DD -L -P -PP ; df -hl ; portsnap fetch update ; pkg version -vIL= | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/-[0-9].*//g' | awk '{printf "%s"" ",$0}' | sed 's/^/portmaster -P -y --no-confirm -D /g' | sh ; pkg version -vIL= ; pkg audit -F ; df -hl

Requires portmaster and portupgrade to be installed and prefers ports over pkg - what can I say I hate myself

CentOS Updates

clear; yum clean all; rm -rf /var/cache/yum; yum -y upgrade --skip-broken; package-cleanup --problems; package-cleanup --dupes; rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest;

I think this requires yum-utils be installed to do the cleaning bits

Debian Updates (also obviously works on Ubuntu)

clear; apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; apt-get dist-upgrade; apt-get autoclean;  apt-get autoremove

OpenBSD Updates

I cheat and use openup, a currently free service provided by mtier - more information can be find by going to https://www.mtier.org/solutions/apps/openup/


* so yeah that FreeBSD one isn't "simple" but it does a bunch of stuff I need it to do.

Feel free to use these or whatever, I don't really care.

Diet and Exercise

After a many month lapse I've started using MyFitnessPal and Garmin Connect regularly again.  I have yet, however, to go back to the gym.  Though I'm paying for it, so maybe I should.

That's all.

It doesn't get easier to deal with loss

I don't mean to imply that you never get over loss. I mean we all get over losses eventually, it mostly depends on the impact of the loss. What I really mean is sometimes it weighs on you and the way it affects you changes, but that feeling never goes away completely. This is especially true when someone dies, or at least it is still true for me and the death of my father. He would have been 52 this year, his Birthday would have been just a few days ago. We lost him almost two years ago and he was buried in Arlington, or his ashes were, just over a year ago now.
We weren't particularly close, not like some parents are with their kids. I think we're both to blame for that. I miss him though, almost every day. Funny thing is, I didn't think I would. Which I guess is a lousy thing to say, but what I mean is I didn't realize the impact his death would have on me. His death, albeit tragic in it's own way, was both expected and not. He had his demons and they ultimately led to his death, but we just didn't expect it to happen to him so young.
I find myself thinking about him, wondering if I could have done anything to change the circumstances of his death or the long set of events that would ultimately lead to it. However I also remind myself that I was just a kid when he started drinking heavily and I didn't have any control over him.
I sometimes wish I could ask him advise on things. Just about cars or things around the house or even parenting. But I can't. And I think about all the moments in my life he's missed, both now and when he was alive. I wish I could have asked him so many things before that I will never get a chance to ask him now. These are the things I still think about.
The funny thing, and maybe funny isn't the right word, and I may have talked about this before, but he wasn't even my biological father. Of course my parents in their finite wisdom didn't officially acknowledge this until I was 18, though on some level I had made this determination years earlier, around 12 or 13. I had discovered my father's original enrollment papers in the army and the dates didn't make sense because I knew how long it took for a baby to born, but I never said a thing, going along with the "secret". I'd really like to ask him why he never said anything. My mom is still here and I could ask her, hell she lives with me now, but I can't find a way to bring it up. I have so many questions about my bio dad too.
My wife Facebook stalked him for me, thanks to some information my grandma had (my dad's mom - just to make this slightly less confusing). It seems that I have at least one step brother and sister, though I don't know if that's the right way to say that about the offspring of someone who is in my mind just a sperm donor. I don't know why I am sharing all this, maybe it's over sharing, but I don't care these are all thoughts I'm having.

I like this song