a journal of interesting technical ideas . . .

Archives:

2023

January

•    Goodhardt's Law


•    IMHO


•    Running GNS3 on Proxmox VE


•    Slingshot


•    Nextcloud File Discovery

2022

December

•    FancyWM


•    Self-Hosted Obsidian

November

•    Blameless Post Mortems


•    Wisdom in 17 sayings


•    Updated Ubuntu Upgrading

October

•    Basic Packer


•    Tailscale

September

•    Linking and Embedding in Obsidian Notes (Part 3)

August

•    Obsidian Tasks (Part 2)


•    Obsidian Introduction (Part 1)


•    Palemoon for legacy Flash support


•    Adding Math Formulas to a Hugo-based site


•    Length of a bit


•    Getting to know Nix

July

•    VMWare PSA update


•    5G Troubleshooting


•    Nautilus Tweaks

June

•    Filezilla

May

•    Interviewing


•    Tower of Hanoi Backup Strategy


•    Howdy - Linux face recognition authentication

April

•    Finding Windows Keys on Hardware

March

•    Powerpoint Live (or You don't know how to share Powerpoint with Teams)


•    Disabling RCS on Android

February

•    Webapps


•    Problems with Proxmox VE

January

•    Oh My Posh


•    Sudo for Windows Powershell


•    Deploying a WIM Image to VMWare


•    Chocolatey Installer for Windows


•    Setting up a Basic FTP server on Linux


•    PSA VMWare

2021

December

•    Winget

September

•    Czkawka


•    Distro Hopping in Style with Ventoy


•    Using WebDAV on Apache

August

•    DNS on Ubuntu


•    Simple Apache Setup on Linux

May

•    Cockpit

April

•    Hugo Markdown Cheatsheet


•    GNS3 Attached to ESXi


•    Connecting GNS3 to Real Networks


•    CPUFetch


•    Using the SSH client config file

March

•    Rational Change Control


•    Making a Memorial DVD


•    Tsukae - A tool for graphing command usage

February

•    New Project - Testing *Every* GNS3 Network Appliance


•    GNS3 2.2.18


•    VHEditor - Visual Studio Code for Android


•    GNS3 Update for February, 2021


•    Won't you be my Neighbor?


•    Linux Install Script


•    Deskreen

January

•    How to Plan Good Downtime


•    Eternal Terminal


•    Diagrams on Linux


•    Adding Hyperlinks to GNS3 Topologies


•    Custom Keycaps - Updated


•    VMWare File Transfer Options including SFTP


•    Writing a Blog - Reflections after a half year

2020

December

•    GNS3 2.2.17


•    SSH Crypto


•    SSH Administrative Trivia


•    Technically Correct Verbage Rant


•    AWS Changing EC2 IPs or Water Never Lies


•    A Love Letter to Flameshot


•    Personal Readme


•    SMAG (command line graphing)

November

•    Powerline Windows


•    Pop! OS


•    Tilix


•    Kali Linux 2020.4


•    Visio Shapes


•    Active Directory Security Assessment with PingCastle


•    Winapps


•    Web Application Performance Assessment - Quick & Easy


•    GNS3 2.2.16

October

•    ZeroTier Router


•    How to write an event to Windows and Linux logs


•    ZeroTier Basic Configuration


•    Ubuntu 20.10


•    SSHFS Automount


•    GNS3_2.2.15


•    Whitelisting Approach to Security


•    Calibre 5.0

September

•    OpenDNS For Home


•    Using SSH (Part 5) - Remotely Possible


•    Privacy Enabled Search Engines


•    CI for Docs with Pandoc (take 2)


•    GNS3_2.2.14


•    Git (and run) a File!


•    Fonts on Linux


•    GNS3 version 2.2.13


•    Creating a new GNS3 Appliance using a script


•    Updating a GNS3 Appliance File

August

•    Using SSH Part 4 - Port Forwarding


•    DNS Services


•    Alternate GNS3 Symbols


•    Team Documentation Using GitHub and Pandoc


•    Most Commonly Used Linux Commands


•    JAMStack


•    Using SSH - Part 3 (File Shares)


•    Using SSH - Part 2 (Authentication)


•    Using SSH - Part 1 (Basics and Banners)


•    Reasonably Secure Browsing


•    Linux Home Cloud Backup


•    Fun with Postscript

July

•    AWS S3 Review


•    VMWare 3D Acceleration


•    Render


•    Building this site using Hugo