Kids DNS in the Time of Covid
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 […]
Linux
Asterisk, LXD, Wireguard VPN and Remote “Office”
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 […]
Happy Hacker Halloween!
Last year I wanted to be a “Hacker” and code up a solution to show near by access points and nearby phones. I failed. However, I did a good job […]
NAT and Macvlan on production LXD (plus reverse proxy & SSH Config)
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 […]
Easy Pi-Hole and Stubby on Orange Pi Zero & Raspberry Pi 3
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 […]
Bootstrap SSH on Ubuntu Core with out Ubuntu SSO credentials
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 […]
Teaching Kids About Busy Signals with a PBX on LXD for $15
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 […]
From zero to LXD: Installing a private compute cloud on a Cisco C220 M4SFF
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 […]
Howto: Sympa 6.2 on Ubuntu 17.04
This post is a continuation of the my last post on the topic, “Howto: Sympa 6.1 on Ubuntu 16.04“. It should come as no surprise that this is about installing […]
Howto: Sympa 6.1 on Ubuntu 16.04
Recently I was tasked at work to get an instance of Sympa set up. Their docs are a bit scattered, but I found a promising post on debian.org which suggested […]