Somewhere to keep notes on my projects
For a recent project I needed to provision a new PLC on a dedicated network. The provisioning process requires a Windows machine running software from the manufacturer and the initial discovery requires it to be on the same layer 2 segment. As a rule I don t normally run Windows anywhere (OK, I do have a Continue reading Layer 2 network access at a distance
I have been writing about how to configure a Raspberry Pi 4, 5 and Pi Zero to act as a USB Ethernet device for a while now. Starting with Pi Zero in 2017, then Pi 4 and finally for Pi 5 in 2023. I ve used Raspberry Pis configured this way for lots of different things Continue reading Raspberry Pi USB-C Gadget Mode
As part of development and testing FlowFuse I need to run a bunch of supporting services The first 3 of these are all run as Docker container, the last 2 as straight binaries, but all have their own `start.sh` in their own directories so that config files and sub directories for storage (Yes, I probably Continue reading Starting a Development Test Environment
In recent posts I ve talked about setting up an S3 server so my Dad can back up his photos from his Synology NAS to one at my house. One of the challenges is that his current collection is nearly a full 1TiB which is an awful lot of data to push (and my home connection Continue reading Building a Snowball
I recently upgraded the storage in my main NAS (as apposed to my all NVME mini NAS) which I use for more longer term cold storage. It cost me a twice as much as it would have done, if I d bought the drives back in November when I started planning this, but that is a Continue reading Garage S3 on Kubernetes
I ve been running my HTTP server logs though a tool called goaccess for a while, this tool generates a bunch of charts showing traffic volume and how it breaks down by the different hostnames/services that NGINX proxies for. I also have the WordPress JetPack stats enabled on my blog (which is behind the nginx reverse Continue reading WTF is Facebook doing?
I recently had a VM that failed to boot after applying some updates. I didn t really have time to work out how to fix it so I created a new VM but there were some files in the VM that I really wanted to keep. So before I deleted the old VM I wanted to Continue reading Mounting Qemu disk images with LVM volumes
For those of you who have been following along on Mastodon for a while you may have noticed the saga of getting FTTP installed at home. What follows is the full story in detail, this is mainly a Cathartic out poring to help me get some closure. A long time ago Work to rollout FTTP Continue reading Finally Fibre
Shell history is a service offered by the shell, usually accessed by pressing the up arrow to retrieve the last executed command (and subsequent presses scrolling further back. You can also search history using ctrl-r (at least with bash). And finally the history command lists all commands made by that users up to the limit Continue reading Running a self hosted Atuin Server in Kubernetes without…
I have recently run into a couple of services that are insistent that my home broadband IP address is not located in the United Kingdom. It is just 2 services, everything else (e.g. Netflix, Amazon or Disney+) all show me as being in the UK Looking both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses up with whois Continue reading Adding a HTTP Proxy on My Alternate WAN Link