OK now. You heard me describe in my last post how my raspberry pis don’t hold a wifi connection persistently. This weekend, after a little googling, I believe I have found the answer to that problem. Well, technically, 2 answers. And I am not sure which one works, so I am using them both 😀 […]
So, for a long time, I have wanted to be able to host a publicly viewable website from my machines @ home, but I have been prevented from doing so because I am behind a NAT. For those of you not in the know, being behind a NAT is the typical setup for internet providers. […]
Some of you, I hope, will be familiar with a command called “virsh”. This command in Linux is the shell command to control KVM VMs. It works great, if you know how to use it and, for the record, KVM is a fantastic virtual host environment. Although I have run my home server infrastructure on […]
So, as mant of you know, RedHat has efectively killed CentOS as a free alternative to running RHEL at home. Because of the blowback from that announcement (I’m sure) then have changed their license for developer use to allow up to 16 servers. This developer license is free and you are free to use those […]
Wow. So what’s old is new again. It does kinda seem like things are cyclical right? Well, it sure does to me. Many years ago I ran NetBSD on a BUNCH of things. Really, it run’s on just about anything but your toaster, so I had it on Sparcstations and Alphastations and HP boxes and […]
One more thing before I go tonight. I was alerted to the fact that the Jak Attack podcast is being produced and added to again. How exciting! Run on over and make sure to give a listen, They are already on episode 2 for this year! Tell my friends Jon and Kelly Penguin Girl that […]
Amazing. Amazing on two fronts. First that I have actually gotten off my bum and decided to make another post, and secondly that I have finally decided to pull the trigger on getting a new laptop. I am one of those guys who likes to talk himself out of making a purchase, even though I […]
I am no stranger to replacing bad equipment in servers, desktops and laptops, but some laptops don’t make it easy. This was one. A couple years ago I swapped out an aging hdd in an older Dell Inspiron with a new ssd and, boy, the performance improved drastically. Lately, I have been using a new(er) […]
I was on a trip to visit my uncle recently and while there and talking shop (he’s a techie kinda fellow) he started telling me about this old tablet he had that I could have if I could get it fixed. It seems he purchased a tablet years ago, didn’t like it, then the os […]
OK, so it is telecommuting – but hear me out for just a second.. I have been involved in a job search as a Linux admin for a few months now and one of the barriers I keep running in to is (get this) physical location, or company location. WHY? Business owners, let me reason […]