9 Podcasts That Can Make Rush Hour Traffic Your Favorite Part of the Day
by jasonprice @ First Entertainment Credit Union
Thu Aug 18 19:49:50 PDT 2016
It doesn’t matter if you’ve lived in LA for 10 years or 10 minutes, as a Southern Californian, you understand the mental and physical drain of rush hour traffic. The hours-long, bumper to bumper, steering wheel-clenching frustration of gridlock. We get that it seems counterintuitive to want to sit in traffic, but allowing your brain…

First Republic: Routing Numbers
First Republic Bank
For all money transfers and direct deposits, you’ll need to know the ABA (American Bankers Association) routing transit number that identifies First Republic Bank.


What is the Automated Clearing House (ACH) number?
First Hawaiian Bank
Hawaii's oldest and largest bank offering personal, private, & business banking services. First Hawaiian Bank is consistently ranked in the top tier of all U.S. banks.

Difference Between Wire Transfer and ACH
Deposit Accounts
What is a Wire Transfer? One of the fastest ways to send money is via wire transfer. Although a wire transfer can take days, in most cases a wire transfer...
Verify Server Certificate with OpenSSL
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Wed Oct 25 08:10:53 PDT 2017
Here’s a quick note for checking the contents of a TLS (SSL) server certificate with the OpenSSL command-line tools. Comments: echo “Q” causes the openssl s_client to disconnect (quit) immediately after verifying connectivity. Replace your hostname and port for “your.fqdn.com:443”. … Continue reading

Routing number versus account number: how they differ
Investopedia
Each bank customer has an account number and each bank has a routing number; these two numbers indicate where transactions are coming from and going to.

Where is the check routing number located? See a sample (hint, it’s on the bottom left of your check!)
Key.com
Do you need to know where the KeyBank routing number is on your checks? We’ll help you find it quickly. Visit Key.com for bank routing numbers and more.
Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag
by jasonprice @ First Entertainment Credit Union
Thu Aug 18 19:23:06 PDT 2016
Born into a vaudeville family in 1895, Buster Keaton began performing with his parents in a comedy sketch act they called The Three Keatons. While Keaton’s mom, Myra, played the sax, Keaton would disobey his father until the dad got so annoyed he’d throw Keaton into the orchestra pit, against the scenery or even into…

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Wed Mar 28 07:01:00 PDT 2018
Kotaku Fortnite Mobile Is Becoming A Battle of the Sexes | Jalopnik The Dealer Doesn’t Care If You Can’t Afford Your Car | io9 Jeff Goldblum Hints at Another Major Cameo in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Offspring How to Introduce Your Kid to Star Wars |
Kotaku Fortnite Mobile Is Becoming A Battle of the Sexes | Lifehacker What Amazon Prime’s ‘Two-Day S
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Tue Mar 27 14:28:00 PDT 2018
Kotaku Fortnite Mobile Is Becoming A Battle of the Sexes | Lifehacker What Amazon Prime’s ‘Two-Day Shipping’ Really Means | Jalopnik Dealers Ask: Have New Cars Become Too Expensive? | io9 This Disney/Pixar Bracket Is Tearing the Internet Apart, So Tear It Some More and Show Us Yours |
Set Windows Firewall Zone to Domain
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Tue Oct 03 15:39:57 PDT 2017
The Windows native host-based firewall is zone-based. This would be fine if you could set the zone for a given interface, but Microsoft has designed it to automatically determine the zone for a network interface using their Network Location Awareness … Continue reading
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Compare and Contrast: ACH vs. Wire Transfers
The Balance
Wire transfers and ACH payments are similar, but they're designed for different needs. See the pros and cons of each method (and which one to choose).
Check Routing Number | SunTrust Personal Banking
SunTrust
We made finding your check routing information easy! Whether you’re looking for your routing number, account number, or transit number, we’ll show you where to look.
PowerShell Foreach-Object Modify Pipeline Objects
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Wed Aug 23 14:22:40 PDT 2017
You can modify pipeline objects on-the-fly using Foreach-Object. The syntax is a little strange because you need to put the object back on the pipeline if desired for additional processing. WordPress.com code-sanitization is eating my $_ so trying Gist, BLAH. … Continue reading

What is a Bank Routing Number and Where is it Found?
ValuePenguin
Bank Routing Numbers come in many formats including ABA, ACH, SWIFT and IBAN numbers. Click here to find a comprehensive list of routing number links for each of the major banks as well as a guide to what each routing number acronym means.
View Certificates Issued to Hostname in ADCS
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Tue Dec 05 12:44:17 PST 2017
Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) is a useful service to provide in a Windows Domain environment. If you’re managing ADCS, you might want a quick way to list issued certificates to a specific hostname. Here’s a quick PowerShell script that … Continue reading

Routing Number On Check - How It Works | Bankrate.com
Bankrate
That string of numbers at the bottom of your check is really important. Find out why.
Force DNS Lookup Over Windows VPN Connection
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Mon Mar 12 13:58:33 PDT 2018
A common problem with Remote Access VPN connections is how to force DNS name resolution across the VPN tunnel. With Windows you will likely need to modify the Windows DNS Client behavior by changing the Network Interface Binding Order (older … Continue reading

Someone can empty your bank account with the information on the front of every check you write
Splinter
You have to have a bank account these days. Without a bank account of some form it’s almost impossible to participate fully in our economy. You can’t buy anything which costs more than what you have in cash, be it a house, a car or even a mattress. You can’t borrow money from an institution. You find yourself constantly paying through the nose for things like check-cashing fees, a predatory practice which most Americans are privileged never to encounter. And you certainly can’t write checks of your own.
Windows Tomcat Manager GUI non-Admin
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Thu Aug 31 15:00:37 PDT 2017
To workaround UAC limitations, the Apache Tomcat Monitor GUI app (tomcat8w/tomcatNw) has an embedded manifest to force elevation (requestedExecutionLevel = requireAdministrator). You can view the manifest settings in the Apache Commons Daemon Procrun prunmgr source code. Because the manifest is … Continue reading
Cisco ASA Defaults that Break Things
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Fri Dec 01 08:38:10 PST 2017
The Cisco ASA is an excellent network security device, but several factory defaults can break some typical network traffic. These settings might be good to change on standard deployments. Turn On “inspect icmp” to allow ping responses through Turn On … Continue reading
View Server Certificate with PowerShell
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Wed Nov 01 15:48:26 PDT 2017
This is a follow-up to my previous post on checking Server Certificate detail with OpenSSL. Note that this example lacks error checking – that is left as an exercise for the reader. This is based on the “Parallel Universe” blog … Continue reading

Lookup ACH Routing Numbers
Notes by Tom
UPDATE May 2015, the old links were no longer active. The new FRB Services site is at www.frbservices.org and the associated links below have been updated. Thanks for reading! Electronic File Trans…

Cisco ASA Troubleshoot IKE Policy
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Wed Oct 11 11:39:46 PDT 2017
Notes for troubleshooting Cisco ASA IKE Policy – there must be a match between site-to-site / lan-to-lan (L2L) endpoint IPSec Peers for the ISAKMP (IKE) session to be established. Traditionally this was known of IPSec Phase One, but as of … Continue reading
Clear adminCount and Enable Inheritance on User
by notesbytom @ Notes by Tom
Fri Dec 01 12:53:56 PST 2017
Users in Active Directory that belong to factory default privileged groups will be protected by an hourly process called SDProp (Security Descriptor Propagator) on the Primary Domain Controller (PDC Emulator). This process sets the adminCount attribute to 1 and disables … Continue reading
It’s upgrade day! Tips, tricks and hidden features of iOS 9.
by jasonprice @ First Entertainment Credit Union
Wed Aug 10 19:06:48 PDT 2016
For all you iPhone users with a 4S or later model: today, Apple has released its newest mobile operating system, and we’re really excited about it. It’s not a complete redesign (as iOS 7 was a few years ago). In fact, when you first upgrade, you’ll be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and…