I'm really excited about the current influx of new people to building computers for the first time to mine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and more. Spending time browsing Reddit I get the impression some are completely new to building PCs and even newer to Linux. This guide is (hopefully...
We are currently in the process of upgrading our Alpine baseimages to version 3.7 to make sure we continue to keep up-to-date with the latest security features and fixes.
Look out for these updates and please update your containers with your preferred method!
You should pull the latest version o...
In the world of PCI passthrough few things have excited me more than the release of the new Looking Glass project from gnif over on the Level1tech forums.
https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
This project will allow you to capture the rendered frame output from your GPU in a Windows guest to a...
Time is money in crypto mining. So how do you make sure that your card is always mining? What if whilst you're sleeping or not paying attention when your mining software crashes? This happened to me today and I lost about 8 hours.
I'll show you how we can use systemd to fix this by automatically r...
The reverse proxy. One of those projects you put off for years but when you finally get to it you find that it was relatively simple all along. We can't hope to cover everything relating to such a broad topic in one article but we'll use an nginx based reverse proxy to get you started. Below, we det...
Welcome to a new series of articles that will take you on a journey to generate beautiful looking dashboards using Grafana. We'll take the readings from the metrics the things in your house are already generating such as your home server, IoT devices (Nest thermostat in my case), pfSense firewall, U...
In order to use ipmitool to gather metrics as part of my Telegraf, Grafana and InfluxDB (TIG) setup (read more about how I set that up here) I needed to find a way give non-root access to run ipmitool.
The solution turned out to be quite simple in the end. Modify a udev rule to give the teleg...
My Windows 10 QEMU guest shut down uncleanly and Windows, being the (un)helpful soul it is decided I needed to boot loop through 'preparing automatic repair' until the end of time. Here's how to fix it...
This guide assumes you are running a Windows guest on a Linux host using libvirt + qemu / k...
A useful feature of Docker that can often be overlooked is its powerful network engine which allows you to manage subnets within the Docker ecosystem. Generally speaking, most people (myself included) will just map internal ports over to the host and use the host's IP address when accessing containe...