Category: Me
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Project – Pickles 2020
This year was a “wonderful” one thanks to Coronavirus (killing tens of thousands of people) and its side effects (lockdown, economy tumbling down, crops not being harvested in time, prices going up for some essentials, people loosing jobs, etc) the preper in me wanted to make sure we get through this winter as healthy as…
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MDADM caching
At the request of a friend I’m doing a piece on mdadm (software raid) with caching. Long story short, Raid 4 / 5 / 6 allows using a disk for caching purposes (the disk can be a software raid) To create the array one would run the mdadm command like so: mdadm –create /dev/md0 –level=5…
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nscd on CentOS7 is being stupid
Today, while “playing” with my servers to get them to use LDAP for authentication, I realized that nscd on CentOS7 (possibly on other Linux distros as well) is being a bit stupid. Normally to get your Linux system to authenticate against LDAP you’d need to adjust quite a few config files (i.e. /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, stuff in…
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Annoying Let’s Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt (aka https://letsencrypt.org/) is a nice way to NOT spend money on SSL certificates for your websites (especially when you’re operating personal sites) BUT at same time it is fairly annoying when you have a setup that’s a bit different than standard ones. In my particular case, I’m running my site on multiple servers…
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Camping session – August 2020
Since the July camping session was too short me and the boss (wife) decided to go camping again but this time we decided to go “wild camping” and take only the bare minimum (turns out the bare minimum was exactly what we took with us last time minus the plush unicorn and some pillows) Now,…
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Camping session – July 2020
A few weeks ago me and the boss (wife) were talking about going out and about (considering we’ve been under lockdown thanks to COVID-19) … one thing led to another and we’re suddenly booking a couple of days at Lepe Beach Campsite. Come July 14th we’re packing a ton of stuff wondering if it would…
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My take on CentOS8
CentOS8 was released not too long ago by the RedHat ppl and after giving it some time to mature a bit I decided to take a closer look at it. Reading online about it I noticed they changed some stuff and improved other stuff but overall there’s not much I can call “special” about it…
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ReactOS
In my quest for emulating various MS Windows apps on Linux I came across ReactOS -> https://reactos.org After reading the about section and looking at the “why?” behind this initiative I felt that this project is something amazing and worth keeping an eye on. Everyone knows it’s really hard to run a piece of software…
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Openfire – personal chat server
I remember many years ago (when I discovered dial-up Internet) me and my mates used to chat via IRC, after that we had yahoo messenger and google talk and all sorts of other chat tools like them. After that, while running my own business, me and my team wanted to have a way to chat…
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Solar powered – ver 0.2 alpha
It’s been a few months since I deployed the solar system (aka the power plant as we call it) and it worked ok considering weather in the UK and the fact that it is a really small rig. Now I had another crazy idea (prepper style) and that is: why not try to mix it…