Author: Dave
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WireGuard – The quick and the dirty VPN
I have always been an ardent user of OpenVPN and StrongSWAN for the more standardised VPN solutions, but these come with their own headaches. Headaches such as client housekeeping, maintenance of a certificate authority, management of any external resources that may provide service to one of the elements, Directory Server or other LDAP Server and…
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Quick reminder for NGINX and using HTACCESS for password protecting a file
Obviously this is easy enough to look up on google these days, but I thought I would write it here so I remember where to find it. If it helps anyone else along the way then that is a double bonus as it were. I hope that helps, it always helps me when I write…
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Kali Linux in VirtualBox … the constant “Brain-Ache” with Guest Additions
I appreciate there are a plethora of posts about this particular subject online, ranging from the simple to the sublime, however I just need something to remember the basic order of things and something to remind me of the component parts. Let’s start with what we don’t need: So we must remove them Now let’s…
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Oracle versus Oracle … and yes it is as sad as it sounds
Well, well, well … a chat to a colleague and I find myself fighting with Oracle Linux .. I started fighting with version 9.3, but alas, 9.3 doesn’t actually run Oracles own f’ing database … well of course it wouldn’t, why would it? I had to downgrade to 8.9, just time wasted, lots of my…
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Beep Beep – exercising is tough
It is no shocker that the various lock-downs over the last 4 years have taken their toll on my svelte being, well, that’s an understatement, they have kicked me to the curb and rolled me around in fat like it’s snow … so my snowball self is now huge. Much like everyone else I have…
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Testing .. 1 . 2 .. erm .. 3 .. Gutenberg Blocks
To Gutenberg blocks and beyond! Well, that was an interesting 48 hours! I was sitting here writing something for someone else (words, lots and lots of words) and while I was looking at it, I thought it would be nice to have more than one column of text to read, like a newspaper or magazine;…
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Creating a LXD Backup Server
Finding a simple enough tutorial for doing this proved a little disappointing, obviously everyone utilising containers are clearly experts in their field and know everything there is to know about the various functions of LXC/LXD, export, snapshot, copy, etc .. So much so, nothing cohesive could be found. Because of that I thought I would…
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Diablo II: The story is reborn
The Lord of Terror returns in Diablo II: Resurrected, bringing with him millennia of cosmic baggage spanning numerous realms, books, and games. To help you better understand the state of Sanctuary at the beginning of your new adventure, we put together a brief timeline of the tug-of-war between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells…
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ISPConfig 3.2 v Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
ISPConfig 3.2 can work with Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS without to much grief, it just isn’t particularly well documented. So here is some help.
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A bit of Console Fun
It seems KFC have jumped on the Playstation 5 or xBox X bandwagon with the release of the KFConsole … The best bargain bucket you will ever have! Awesome bit of marketing on their behalf.
