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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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Coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a type of virus and apparently there are many different kinds some of which cause disease. A newly identified type has caused a recent outbreak of respiratory illness now called COVID-19 that started in China. Recent information indicates COVID-19 may be passed from person to person. Community spread is being seen, also. Community…
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BREXIT deal signed – it is happening for real
Took a few years but eventually UK did it … they actually got this done. I’m not a fan of BREXIT and I feel that this is not a good thing generally speaking (considering the fact that in my opinion we should all unite under one country called “Humanity”). According to https://www.gov.uk/transition after Jan 2020…
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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…