You may remember that a while ago, I set up a fun little PBX for my kids. It was awesome! That setup allowed my partner and I to use our cell phones as SIP clients to the Asterisk instance running on the LXD server and my kids each had an analog phone going through the […]
Intro and LXD install At work recently I was charged with rebuilding a bare metal host. Beyond needing to follow our security best practices and be well documented, it was left up to me how to do it. I had my own needs for test VMs and there was a pending request for a VM* […]
The other day the kids and I were at our local, awesome Goodwill store. I guess they’re all awesome, eh? I was looking over the pile of small electronics while the kids picked out a shirt (“any shirt you want!!”), and stumbled across a device with Ethernet jacks (RJ45) and phone jacks (RJ11). It’s a […]
Intro For some time now, really since last November, I’ve wanted to do two things: Encrypt all my DNS traffic leaving my house LAN and run an instance of Pi-Hole to reduce ads spamming my browser (and running cryptocurrency mining software ;). As well, even if you’re connecting to a web server over HTTPS, your […]
Introduction Having some nice server grade hardware on hand, I knew I needed to put it to good use. I’m talking about the Cisco C220 M4SFF: This lil’ guy comes with some nice specs. The one I have is configured thusly: 1U 64GB RAM 8 x 240GB SSD 2 x 10 core 2.4Ghz E5-2640 v4 […]
tl;dr – An open source bash script which provisions a server to terminate TLS traffic with a valid certificate and reverse proxies the traffic back to a web based development instance via an SSH tunnel. Enables sharing of a dev instance and testing Android apps. Intro Are you an ngrok user (or one of its […]
Like all of you parents lucky enough to still have a job during the COVID19 layoffs, I’ve been struggling to balance time at work, personal time, family time and being the family’s IT person. With school closed, and now all summer camps closed, our use of kids screen time (aka internet time) has gone up […]
At work the other day I was testing our Ansible instructions on how to get a development environment set up. Given that this was supposed to be platform agnostic and that I exclusively develop on Ubuntu and LXD, I found an old Mac Mini on Craigslist to run VirtualBox on. As it came with only […]
Skip to the install guide if you just want to know how to set up your Pi easily ;) Otherwise, read on for a little background. Introduction I’ve been deep in DNS land of late. At work I’m working on DNS Stats and helping QA/release/document a packet capture tool for DNS stats. I even, just […]
I was playing around with Snaps and I wanted to try out Ubuntu Core as well. I still had some of those Orange Pi Zero boards laying around and when you go to the Core Download page – there’s an option for Orange Pi right there – sweet! I downloaded the .img file, wrote it […]