To set-up a reverse proxy I took the following steps:
At the time of this writing I can't really confirm if the reverse proxy configuration for home assistant is working as I can't tell what IP …
I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out.
For this I am using the following parts:
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has:
The case has holes for wall-mounting.
The Geekworm X728 kit is …
This page is used for testing some pelican and markdown extensions I added.
OK, this is awkward... I am not sure if this is needed.
Using del and ins.
test mark tags …
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service.
They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable …
This article is about erasing disc drives securely. Specially for SSD drives, writing zeros or random data to discs is not good enough and counterproductive.
One way to do secure erase (for disposal) is to begin with an encrypted disc. However, after the fact the following options are possible:
A seedbox is a dedicated server at a high speed datacenter with a public IP address for the downloading and seeding of bittorrent files. Persons who have access to a seedbox can download these files to their personal computers at any time and from any place that has an internet …
Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower was responsible for putting together one of the most important yet fundamentally simple to understand concepts in time management. Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle is a tool to help decipher what tasks need to be addressed more immediately than others. Anyone who uses the principle …
We use it for receiving junk e-mails (i.e. for those times where we need an e-mail address for sign-up to a service).
E-mails are of the form:
Extend postie:
Before posting we insert all the header information …
Windows system administration is very mouse driven and to reach all tools you need to browse through Windows explorer.
If you are like me and prefer to log on a limited privilege account and use Runas to perform admin tasks, you can open these consoles with the .msc file names …
Features:
Options:
Here a few web-links to interesting web apps.
It covers stuff about password security and checking if web sites are down, etc etc.
If you're getting an error when visiting a certain site, it could be down or something could be wrong on your …
A quick and dirty mini-howto to setup a proxy on Ubuntu. This is meant mostly for doing quick setup of a proxy on a cloud environment.
sudo apt-get install squid/etc/squid adding …Recently I found this Open Source project. Apparently it recently gained support to unpack Exchange Offline Address Book files. What I don't know is after you unpack it, how would you use such a file. Intriguing but apparently falls a little bit short. Probably would need to try it out …
I am still to test this recipe
First of all, we must install the following components:
So these are my ideas on how to document projects. There are three types of documentation types:
Sometimes we need to connect two or more geographically distrubuted ethernet networks to one broadcast domain. There can be two different office networks of some company which uses smb protocol partially based on broadcast network messages. Another example of such situation is computer cafes: a couple of computer cafes can …
When using virtualisation it is very common to create template VMs that can be cloned from. This makes deployment much easier than having to install a new VM from scratch. Unfortunately, the cloned VMs lack any Active Directory memberships and the VMs have to be manually added to the AD …
This is a handy tip.
If you don't want to give out your real email address to register for a site and don't want to go through the hassle of creating a spam email address, just point your browser to Guerrilla Mail upon loading the page you'll have an automatically …