Category Technology

As promised, a posting

So I have received most of my gear (the main server is still in limbo) and I decided to start setting up the primary infrastructure. When I tell you I encountered more bad cables and potentially broken parts (admittedly one…

Rebuilding basic infrastructure

So I had a minor crisis (read: It could have been much worse) yesterday when I realized my Unify docker container was acting as if I needed to rebuild it from scratch and I couldn’t find a backup anywhere. I…

Samba4 AD and Bind DNS

This is Part 1 of the Great Server Migration of 2023, and I want to apologize in advance for the delayed post. I started it the day I did the work but life happened. So in preparation for that, I’m…

The Great Server Migration – Syllabus

So this post is a post where I’ll gather all of the parts together and eventually make the title match the number of posts I create detailing this project. The reason for this endeavor are multiple, but I’ll try to…

Installing WoeUSB-ng on RHEL 9

I had a moment where without going to any of the Windows devices in the house or the macOS device I needed to write a Windows ISO for a machine that wouldn’t boot the Ventoy USB stick I have. Specifically…

Hashing Times + Backup Script

Hashing Times I did a timed test against md5, sha256, and sha512 and here are the results. These tests were run on local storage. When running the tests against a file on an offsite network share the results varied significantly.…