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Building and experimenting in a personal tech playground. Exploring hardware setups, network configurations, virtualisation technologies, and homelab project ideas. Satisfying hands-on breaking and creating of personal services and infrastructure cos-playing.

• GDM display on the monitor you want

  Sep 24, 2017

  2 min read

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  Linux Solution Gnome

  How configure gdm when running a duel monitor setup. I’m running Gnome3 and the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) which handles graphical user login, as well as other duties….My primary monitor…

• My libVirt clone/sysprep work flow

  Sep 14, 2017

  4 min read

  Virtualisation Home Lab

  Linux Libvirt Kvm Solution

  An insight in to my workflow for creating KVM, LibVirt virtual machines on my Linux Workstation. Using KVM for my virtual environment makes sense, it is kernel level native, very powerful, flexible, well documented and community supported.

• Peer certificate error when S/MIME signing email

  Aug 16, 2017

  2 min read

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  Linux Solution Opensource Smime

  Notes on overcoming certificate trusted peer certificate errors when importing and using s/mime for email signing on systems that use NSS instead of OpenSSL libraries

• Using your iCloud address book in Linux

  Aug 11, 2017

  2 min read

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  Mac Opensource Linux Solution Icloud

  Notes on how to get any application that supports WebDAV or CardDAV to access apple iCloud resources. Following on from previous posts about using Apples iCloud services on non Apple devices or operating systems.

• youtube-dl bombs and needs updating

  Jul 8, 2017

  2 min read

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  Linux Solution

  youtuble-dl bombs when trying to extract from html5 player sites and updating it solves this but the native update command has stopped working and package managers are inconsistant

• Storage Clustering....a living project

  Jun 6, 2017

  1 min read

  Home Lab Virtualisation

  Linux Storage Opensource

  Exploring various storage clustering solutions as high available backend for virtual machine clusters. What is out there, what fits the needs, is it open source and how hard will it be to implement it.

• Improve FFmpeg x264/AAC quality

  May 24, 2017

  3 min read

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  Mac Macports Opensource Ffmpeg

  Install and use the open source FFmpeg utility on macOS for high quality audio and video encoding and transcoding with support for x two AAC-LC encoders (aac & libfdk_aac) and one HE-AAC(v1/2) encoder (libfdk_aac).

• Bootable USB install device in MacOS

  Apr 27, 2017

  1 min read

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  Mac Opensource Linux

  These instructions will create a bootable install medium for the installation of a operating system using a .iso file downloaded from the network, the dd command and a standard USB…

• Bootable USB install device in Linux

  Apr 27, 2017

  3 min read

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  Linux Opensource Mac

  These instructions will create a bootable install medium for the installation of a operating system using a .iso file downloaded from the network, the dd command and a standard USB…

• Kernel fatal error: openssl/aes.h

  Apr 24, 2017

  1 min read

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  Linux Solution Ubuntu Redhat Kernel

  Missing OpenSSL blows up kernel compile..Oh Why? So, I’ve walked into this one a few times when compiling a new kernel for the first time after a new distro install. Each time I shake my head.

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