Category: Me
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Solar powered – ver 0.3/0.4 alpha
v0.3 Made a few more changes to my solar rig – after discovering a few issues with the original design and figuring out a solution for them – and in the process I learned about diodes, Ferrite cores, EMI filters, circuit breakers and fuses. It all started after watching this video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3rr4c9_u4 Battery…
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Becoming OCI Certified Architect Pro
In Oct 2021 I joined Oracle’s Ethical Hacking Team (EHT) and in doing so I found out what I’m going to be involved in and what’s expected of me 🙂 – don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, I’m simply stating some facts – and to tell you the truth the stuff I’m being involved…
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Student v2.0
Welcome Week @ UoR started on Monday (20/09/2021) and I’m excited to say that I already like the campus and the people behind the various activities that are happening there atm. On Monday I managed to sort my student card and got to visit a few of the campus buildings not to mention attended a…
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End of a journey, beginning of a new one
In 2017 my life changed with me moving to the UK and joining the team at Paragon Internet Group Ltd (tsoHost brand owned by GoDaddy), now, in 2021, it’s time for another major change in my life … this time career wise … with me leaving the infra team at TSO (ops) and joining the…
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Holiday session – August 2021
Nottingham(castle), Kendal (Lake District), Manchester (stadium), Leeds (Luke), Oxford (Blenheim Palace)
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Anniversary – 2021
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Home lab – Cobbler – OS provisioning on Bare metal and VMs
If not familiar with what Cobbler is and/or does then go here: https://cobbler.github.io/ As a sysadmin I always enjoyed setting up complex infrastructures or testing various cool features that some new piece of software has or simply test if my stuff would work on a newer version of Linux (whatever flavor of Linux that may…
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Camping session – June 2021
As we all know 2020 and first part of 2021 sucked thanks to COVID-19 however with the easing of the restrictions me and the boss (wife) figured we should be okay to go camping for a few days. I’ll mention Badgells Camping https://badgellswoodcamping.co.uk, Ightham Mote and Diggerland and let the pictures do the talking 🙂
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My take on openSUSE
Many many years ago (20 ish) I was playing with all sorts of Linux distributions (peanut, slackware, mandrake, redhat, gentoo, suse and more) and back then I came up with my top 3 preferred Linux distros. My original top 3 looked like this: 1) Slackware; 2) RedHat; 3) Debian; because at that time in terms…
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Gentoo on ZFS
… or any other recent enough version of Linux … Everyone seems to be praising ZFS for its advanced features and its reliability and all sorts of other crap and they’re right to do that. The only thing I hate about it is its stupid license which is not GPL compatible which is complicating things…