Hosting a Fediverse instance on an original Raspberry Pi
"Hosting a Fediverse instance site on an original 256MB Raspberry Pi using Alpine Linux diskless mode."
Cablespaghetti
A random collection of thoughts, information and revelations which I saw fit to share with the world.
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Hosting a static site on an original Raspberry Pi
"Hosting a static site (this blog) on an original 256MB Raspberry Pi using Alpine Linux diskless mode."
Project Home Cloud Part 3: MikroTik hAP ac² Initial Configuration with IPv6
"Setting up MikroTik hAP ac² with the basic functionality to replace my ISP provided router including working IPv6."
Project Home Cloud Part 2: MikroTik hAP ac² Factory Reset
"Figuring out how to factory reset my used MikroTik hAP ac²"
Project Home Cloud Part 1: The Plan
"The story of my love affair with old crusty hardware and the beginnings of my plan to turn my shed into my own personal cloud provider."
EKS Managed Node Groups, the good, the bad and the config
"The pros and cons, and how to migrate to Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups."
Using AWS Spot Instances in your production EKS cluster
"How to use AWS Spot instances in your production EKS cluster without causing an outage."
Getting up and running with multi-arch Kubernetes clusters
"How to effectively add arm64 nodes into an existing amd64 Kubernetes cluster without making problems for yourself."
FortiClient SSL VPN Silent Install with Group Policy
"I've never been able to find a way to silently install the Fortinet SSLVPN client with Group Policy or otherwise. Today I had a bit of a break through."
Checking the existence of a folder on all domain machines
"I needed a way of finding a list of machines where the JRE install had failed or not run because the user hasn't rebooted for a while. So basically I needed to check that the Java install directory was present on all PCs on the Windows domain."
Grabbing Photo URLs from Twitter
"Yesterday I helped out at #CodeOff2015, an event that my employer Snowflake Software runs every year at the Electronics and Computer Science department at the University of Southampton. We give students the day to write software to solve a problem that we set, they get judged at the end of the day and then the winner gets a paid summer internship with our development team. A great way to find…
Getting FortiClient SSL VPN on Linux to trust a certificate
"I'm a Linux guy; I find it to be the most intuitive operating system for most tasks, even on a Laptop. At home I use Arch Linux and at work I've recently moved from the Windows 7 workstation I've been using for the last 10 months to Ubuntu GNOME on an old laptop that was feeling unwanted."
Ooh look! Shiny new Wi-Fi!
"The access points powering the guest and internal Wi-Fi networks at work were getting a bit old and senile, so around 6 months ago we decided to get some money to upgrade. At the time we only thought only one needed replacing, so we went out and bought a Cisco WAP321 to replace it; having prior knowledge of their reputation and not wanting to be burdened..."
DiskCryptor full disk encryption
"A few months ago I was tasked with encrypting the laptops of a few of our consultants who travel a fair bit. I was going to go with Microsoft BitLocker, but as we use Windows 7 Professional we're out of luck. I also looked at using TrueCrypt, but there are a lot of question marks around it since it was abandoned by its developers..."
Revenge of the flaky routers
"There is an DSL router at work which I'm sure is sentient. It's 100% reliable for months on end and then once in a while, always when I'm out of the office, it decides to crash and drop the Internet connection. The only solution is of course to turn it off and on again; which means visiting the office at the most inconvenient times possible."