Category: Me
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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…
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Playing with ZFS on Linux
ZFS is one of the most advanced local filesystems you could store your data on. For more details feel free to check the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS An online search for “install ZFS on centos 7” got me a few results … I selected this one: https://linuxhint.com/install-zfs-centos7/ which seems to be good enough For Gentoo things…
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IT workshop @ Home – Raspberry Pi 4 B
After our last visit to Paul & Michael, during which the children got to play games and do some “coding” in “Scratch” we noticed how excited they were about doing stuff at the computer (I guess they realized the computer universe is huge) and while talking about this with Paul & Michael, my mind got…
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Patching for zombieload and friends on Linux – Dell Precision 5530
If you’re like me and like Linux enough to install it on hardware which is sold as a Windows running device then you’ll probably want to keep reading. During the last 1 – 2 years or so we started seeing new vectors of attack being discovered / exploited which unfortunately come from cutting corners when…
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MySQL/MariaDB replication
Sometimes you find yourself needing some form of high availability or fail over for your application that uses a MySQL/MariaDB backend. If you’re like me you’ll probably like the idea of doing this the Master – Master way which, by the way, is not the recommended way BUT works quite well. Here’s what needs doing:…