Category: Projects
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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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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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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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Home lab – Spacewalk – Systems Management and Provisioning
For who is not yet familiar with this project go to this url: https://spacewalkproject.github.io/ This project advertises the fact that it manages software on your systems and provisions on bare metal and virtual so it’s like a fancier Cobbler (it actually uses Cobbler in the backend) with some “push” functions. The only reason this project…
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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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Redis cluster – Cristian style
I’ve been looking into getting some form of in memory caching for my sites BUT at same time do it in a way in which data would still be there in case of a crash and also do it HA style to be able to do maintenance on it without having some form of service…
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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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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…