I love KVM. To use it effectively sometimes it's kinda slick for the vms to be on your normal subnet so you dont need funny routes to make stuff work. Netplan scripts are stored in /etc/netplan. network: ethernets: enp1s0: dhcp4: false dhcp6: false # add configuration for bridge interface # [macaddress]

Netplan stores it's config files in /etc/netplan. The installer will create a starter script that enables dhcp on the interface by default. In my system, the Ubuntu Server 20.04 installer created a file called 00-installer-config.yaml, below is the file from a fresh install. # This is the network

So, I gotta admit, I'm into mining crypto, normally I have 2 GPU's mining for me all the time on Rainbow Miner, I usually use Zpool and Nicehash for BTC. To keep my itch going on mining, I started mining Helium Tokens, or HNT, I purchased my Miner from emrit.

How do I install WSL on Windows 10 or 11? First enable virtualization in your BIOS, it's best to keep it on if you plan on using virtual machines. If you want a quick install of Ubuntu inside of windows 10 or 11, open powershell as admin and type wsl

If you find youself running into an issuesrunning mysql_secure_installation, it will help to set a password on MySQL 8, heres how to set a password, so you can successfully run `mysql_secure_installation` ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH caching_sha2_password BY 'yournewpasswd';

If you from time to time have issues connecting remotely on windows 10 clients and are tired of pulling your hair out, read ahead. We recently installed a Unifi Security Gateway XG at the office, since COVID-19 hit I've had 2 of my remote users constantly have issues connecting to

If you noticed after updates your chrome browser no longer is displaying web pages, the work around right now, is to run it under compatibility mode for Windows 8. Once this step is complete chrome will work again. I assume this is caused by Microsoft willingly since they want everyone

I was just recently tasked to get an old analog adapter working with our newer phone system for a client. We used it years ago for sending and receiving faxes and it works well. They can be found on Amazon, basically giving you 2 analog ports. In this example we

I'm a fedora 30 guy, and I was having issues following a lot of sites rpm links to install the rpmfusion repo, so I could install simplescreenrecorder, so I dropped it over here for others to find. the simplescreenrecorder instructions from their website will not work for Fedora 30. # sudo

I've been running a pretty cool homelab for years now, and my R710 (with 6 2TB disks in RAID10) was running out of storage so I was shopping around. I ended up getting the Netgear ReadyNAS Diskless RN428 for home/business use off Amazon. While researching I also looked at

I started 10 years ago as customer support for company in the Omaha Metro. Back then we used a hardware device by Network Streaming if I remember correctly. It was awesome, seriously the best remote support tool I'd used. In my opinion, it was awesome, and today is still one

I've been a  3CX user for a couple years for my day job now. I'm sysadmin for a small company in the Omaha Metro area. Back in the day we used an old Northstar Meridian phone system, and a couple T1's. I remember having to come in every morning and

Configuring the Pi for SSH and Network is fairly easy. We bought some new Unifi gear, and I wanted to set up a Raspberry Pi to run the controller software. I use Linux on my desktop, so copying the image is pretty simple. Normally I just download the image, right

If you buy a Unifi Security gateway, out of the box the lan port is 192.168.1.1/24, which didn't work in my case as I wanted to configure the network interface on a different subnet. It's fairly easy to do from the command line: configure edit interfaces

It's super easy to install unrar in Centos 6, 7, and Fedora I've included some of the primary operating systems below, for more options please see here Fedora 29: dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-29.noarch.rpm dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-29.noarch.

sudo dnf install p7zip

I run some larger mysql databases with thousands of sleeping connections usually, and sometimes I just want to show what processes are doing. SELECT user, time, state, info FROM information_schema.processlist WHERE command != 'Sleep' AND time >= 2 ORDER BY time DESC, id \G Should select user, time, state, and

If you accidentally remove you default compute engine service account, bad things can happen. You are required to have the iam.serviceaccounts.undelete role, by default OWNER has this permission by default. It is required know the unique id of the deleted service account. If it is not already known,

I use X2go a ton to access remote desktops for home and work, normally I'd use Cinnamon but lately I've been having a lot of issues with stability on Cinnamon, so I switch happily to KDE since it works well with X2go. Xrdp also looks to have this issue, and

I've written about my home setup before. I hated how much of a pain it was to set everything up, so I created a docker-compose script to spin up monitoring quickly and easily. I'm utilizing docker, and docker-compose scipts to orchestrate everything in seconds. All tables will be created in

Just moved the blog back to ghost, I missed it a bit. I plan on blogging regularly, I've got plenty of things ready to go!

Just about every camera I have records in 4K, I record in full quality, and down convert when needed: single file: ffmpeg -i DJI_0029.MP4 -vf scale=1920:1080 -c:v libx264 -crf 35 DJI_0029-smaller.mp4 bash script: save this file to convert.sh and chmod +x convert.

My day job had used Dynect Managed DNS for years, but as our queries per second increased to 30, we had a problem. At one time we used their traffic manager, but we no longer balanced at DNS level, which dropped the bill by quite a bit. I've been hosting

I'm getting started using docker for somethings. I needed to move a container from a test machine to a new production home. This is how I did it. If there is a better way, please let me know! I ran this where the machine was in development: sudo docker export