My Default Apps at the Start of 2026
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...
New House Projects - Weather Watching V0.5
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, wo...
New House Projects - Network 2.0
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...
New House Projects - Network Planning and Setup
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,...
Dell Wyse 5070 - RAM and Coral AI
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,...
Books Read: 2022
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 fi...
Books Read: 2023
(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...
My Default Apps at the End of 2023
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 B...
Simple Linux Kernel Picker
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...
RSyslog, ZFS, and Storing logs based on the source in my HomeLab
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 E...
Install Fedora, CentOS, Rocky Linux, and Alma Linux via Serial Console - And VNC!
I have a similar post for doing this with Ubuntu. The process here is similar, but simpler. You can use this with any Red Hat style 'Anaconda' installer, from Alma Linux Minimal, to Fedora's biggest W...
Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Via Serial Console
I have a few PC Engines APU units that do not have a graphics adapter, and are designed to be setup via a serial interface. The first step is to find the mini.iso that is made available on the mirrors...
Books Read: 2020
I'm trying to be a bit more on the ball with the reading list this year. It's not even February 2020, and this post is in draft mode. It's a start... After the the Charles Dickinson short story called...
Installing WeeWx on Centos 8 - The Basics
I've long been a weather nerd, and some years ago I finally invested in a personal weather station with all the sensors you could want. Temperature and humidity? Of course! Wind speed and direction? A...
Bash Script - Restarting OpenVPN Connections
I use Sanoid, and Syncoid, to take snapshots of my Centos based ZFS storage system and copy them to replicas. Generally speaking, I use re-purposed Thecus N5550 storage units for the remote hardware....
Behringer X-Live - Splitting 32 Channel WAV Files and Deleting Silence
At my church we use a Behringer X32 mixer to run Sunday services and we added an X-Live card, instead of the included USB Audio interface card, so we can record our services, multi-tracked, direct to an SD card. This has saved a lot of recording overhead, since we don't need a PC, display, etc., but
MacOS Catalina and Beyond - Updating $PATH in ZSH (2020)
I've just moved from Fedora on my primary work laptop, to MacOS. It's a change I'm pretty happy about, not because I had any trouble with Fedora, but the quality of my hardware has been upgraded in a...
Backup Hosted Email - OfflineIMAP with Fastmail
A few years ago I finally let go and started using a hosted email provider. Running a secure email platform is something I've done or years, both professionally and personally, but I was tired of powe...
Books Read: 2019
As I did last year, below is a listing of all the books I read in the previous year, and my thoughts on them. For the first time, all of the books I read last year were in digital form. I began the ye...
Switching from Nikon to Olympus: Part 3 - Trading Up.
As I've been writing about over these past posts, I've decided to make the move from Nikon to Olympus. I spent about a week with some rental equipment, and while I didn't love all of the gear I rented...