A quick note on some best practices on how to upgrade OpnSense. OpnSense Upgrade procedure Yes, I moved to OpnSense. I needed a firewall with an up-to-date IGMP proxy package and PFSense’s curr...

A reminder for myself what tool I used to migrate my windows settings from my old pc to a newer one. The Tool The tool is called Transwiz. Transwiz brings over user profiles, no support for Azu...

So you think you’ve done everything done correctly when it comes to container logging. Created a nice daemon.json in the /etc/docker directory that should rotate your logs Notice the word “should” ...

A quick note to people who are wondering if you can skip versions when upgrading the bios of (in my case) a PC Engines APU2 The Answer YES YOU CAN! After googling a bit I could not find a defin...

Some quick notes on how I reinstalled my homeserver from 6.7 to 7 without losing any VM configuration The Challenge I was still running ESXi 6.7 from a usb-stick and I knew that going forward V...

A solution to an Arraydif challenge on codewars (in python). The Challenge Your goal in this kata is to implement a difference function, which subtracts one list from another and returns the re...

A quick write-up on installing Pritunl on RedHat 8. Intro Pritunl is a distributed OpenVPN, IPsec and WireGuard Server that I’ve been using for a number of years as my goto solution for: acc...

Created a small script to quickly convert the CPU Ready time view of a VM shown in milliseconds to percentage per vCPU Been doing some work on monitoring some virtual machine cpu behavior cross-...

Welcome back, Quite some time has passed since I got tired of fighting off hackers from my previous wordpress site. I’ve been seeing more and more people move to Jekyll to create content and publis...