Learnin' Online for All to see
I couple of years ago, I did a post about my 'default' apps , and since it's been a little while I thought an update might be fun. I've pasted in my answers from the first round, and I'll update where needed. Quick and dirty! Here's all the stuff I can think of... Mail Client: Apple Mail and Thunderbird and I've been experimenting with Vivaldi's built in eMail reader. Mail Server: Fastmail Notes:…
I've always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation, would peer out a window and then mark down if it was sunny, or cloudy, or possibly raining. Growing up in New Hampshire I used to follow the extreme weather on Mount Washington. And, as a lover of…
Ok - So, take one of this project didn't go as planned. I don't regret the choices I made, and while I'm very happy with how everything is working today. it's not the setup I had hoped for. So, where did I end up? Firstly - I ended up ordering a firewall from Protectli, the VP2420 , which I ordered with Coreboot BIOS. Performance has been great, it was easy to setup, and the 2.5Gb ports work…
EDIT - 11.1.2024 - I have changed many of the equipment choices listed below, which will be another blog post. The equipment from FS has been a total disaster, and the Qotom firewall, while effective, lacked the usability I really wanted in such an important device. The FS wireless equipment is likely to be e-waste, which is horrible, but the Qotom will live on, just in a different role We're in…
I too have been bitten by the bug and have a growing number of Dell Wyse 5070 thin clients appearing. I've been very happy with them, and since I struggled to find clear info on a couple of upgrades, I thought I'd add my text based ramblings to the Internets in case it's a help for someone else. I have a 5070 Extended, which has a PCIe 2.0 4x slot. The one I have included the AMD E9173 graphics…
Having forgotten to make this post at the end of 2022, this post is a little tardy. But, I organize my reading into year based 'Collections' on my Kindle, so knowing what was read isn't too hard to figure out. Figuring our the order in which I read them proving a stiffer challenge! I started the year with a couple of books on time, and historical time keeping. Firstly, I read ' Longitude: The True…
(I'll try to get my 2021, and 2022 posts up soon too.. totally forgot to write them!) Firstly, my reading has really declined this year! Though I continue to work from home, I have struggled this year to find gaps to do much reading. I do most of my reading during lunch, or in little pockets throughout the day. This year however, I did not do a good job of actually taking a lunch at work.…
Quick and dirty! Here's all the stuff I can think of... Mail Client: Apple Mail and Thunderbird Mail Server: Fastmail Notes: Apple Notes To-Do: Nothing iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera iPhone Photo Backup: Nextcloud Photo Management: Apple Phones (on iPhone), On1 on MacOS Calendar: Apple Calendar Cloud File Storage: Nextcloud RSS: TinyTinyRSS Contacts: Apple Contacts Browser: Firefox Chat:…
I run Fedora in my home-lab as the base OS for my server. It works well for me but I do occasionally run into an issue where Fedora will make a new kernel available before the ZFS project has support for it. When that happens I have to change from the most current kernel to something that I can have a dkms module built for. I do this once or twice a year and I never remember the commands. So,…
There are many ways to store syslog data, and nearly all of them are better than what I am outlining here. If you're looking to learn how to deal with syslog at scale, take a look at Graylog , or the Elk Stack or some other similar tool. There are many free and/or open source options to do this. Many of which I've setup and used for my employers. For me though, I'm not looking to load big piles of…