fighting the lack of good ideas
I had the privilege of speaking at this year’s Ohio Linux Fest on the topic of syslog Slidedeck PDF – https://antipaucity.com/olf2023-syslog.pdf If you would like me to give this, or any other, talk for your organization, please contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter You can watch the talk from OLF’s live stream of the event…
After a friend of mine told me he wanted to deploy Jitsi on my main webserver, and me saying “sure”, I decided I wanted to get it up and running on a new server both so I knew how to do it, and to avoid the latency issues of videoconferencing from central North America to…
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After combing through the docs and several how–tos on deploying the Squid proxy server – none of which really did everything I wanted, of course – I’ve finally gotten to the format below. Installing Squid is easy-peasy – it’s in the standard package repos for the major platforms (CentOS/Fedora/RHEL, Ubuntu/Debian, etc) – so just run…
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Ran across this error recently in an Ubuntu guest on my VirtualBox install: VBoxClient: (seamless): failed to start, Stage: Setting guest IRQ filter mask Error: VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR Gee, isn’t that a useful message. Fortunately, there was a forums.virtualbox thread on just this error. The upshot is that this error is actually caused because of a failure…
I recently ran across this helpful Digital Ocean community answer about creating a swap file at droplet creation time. So I decided to test how long using my old method (using dd) takes to run vs using fallocate. Here’s how long it takes to run fallocate on a fresh 40GB droplet: root@ubuntu:/# rm swapfile &&…
In follow-up to previous posts I’ve had about SSL (specifically with Let’s Encrypt), here is the set of SSL configurations I use with all my sites. These, if used correctly, should score you an “A+” with no warnings from ssllabs.com. Note: I have an improved entropy package installed (twuewand). This is adapted from the Mozilla config…
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I came across pi-hole recently – an ad blocker and DNS service that you can run on a Raspberry Pi in Raspian (or any Debian or Ubuntu (ie Debian-like)) system. Using pi-hole should obviate the need for running ad-blockers in your browser (so long as you’re on a network that is running DNS queries through pi-hole)….