Category: Me
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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…
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Project grow your own veg ver. 2020
Last year we decided to grow some veg in the garden and chose to focus on tomatoes, onions and various herbs which for us turned out to be a massive success with respect to the taste of the veg not the quantity of veg we harvested. This year focus was on being smarter, starting earlier…
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Quest to improve self – challenge accepted!
When I first discovered the PC (too many years ago , was about 14 years old so that would mean 1996) it was love at first sight. Lost many nights trying all sorts of crazy things, failing, trying again, and again and again until eventually I got to a point where Google / Yahoo /…
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DNS over HTTPS
According to Wikipedia DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a protocol for performing remote DNS resolution via the HTTPS protocol. This to me translates to privacy and a lot more of it considering the fact that many ISPs out there tend to log this information on their servers and I personally don’t like some random third…
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KVM – Nested virtualization
Ever wondered about the possibility of running VMs inside VMs ? If so then you’ll want to read further. In my particular case I have because (might have mentioned this before on my blog) I’m constantly “playing” with stuff for testing and proof of concept reasons. The HOW TO part: 1. Enable the settings for…
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Get rid of ads with a DNS sinkhole (Pi-hole)
One of the problems I recently focused on lately has been the fact that I’m constantly being fed various forms of ads (from the basic inline text ads to the full on cover the website movie type ad) and this is really starting to get on my nerve. I understand that this is a way…
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virt-install kickstart CentOS 7 vs CentOS8
I’m a fan of KVM (for various reasons, one of which being the fact that it’s there in the kernel for free) and like to automate stuff as much as I can. Every so often I find myself needing to provision VMs to test or to deploy all sorts of setups and when that happens…