A Tale of Fans, Frustration, and Finally Figuring It Out Introduction What began as a simple mission—“Make the fans go brrrr”—quickly transformed into an unexpected deep dive into the mysterious inner workings of nvidia-settings on a headless Linux box. As any good homelab tinkerer knows, nothing is ever truly simple, especially when GPUs are involved….
Like any sensible cybersecurity professional with entirely normal hobbies, I occasionally spin up a small digital nation-state of VMs on my Fedora desktop. Usually they behave. Usually. Then one day, without warning, they staged a coordinated rebellion. This post chronicles how my Fedora workstation decided to reinvent network segmentation, how libvirt lost its memory of…
It wasn’t just one thing that prompted me to switch it was a number of factors. Microsoft’s latest feature “Recall” just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back here. Though it is a heavy piece of straw in and of itself. Like a lot of people I was getting tired of the…
This is a longer post so here is a Table of Contents Migration Attempt #Two So this is my second attempt to migrate away from VMware’s platform. This one went better then last time, though there were some causalities along the way. Namely all my Windows VMs. The reason for the migration has not changed,…
So I had an issue where I wanted to host multiple websites behind a single web address/IP address. I knew this was possible to do, but I didn’t know how. I also wanted it to be secured by HTTPS, which would require a redirect of all HTTP traffic. I stitched together the following. I commented…
This assumes you already have expanded the hard drive within VMware or VirtualBox, or whatever your virtualization solution you use. You will also need to make sure parted is installed on the system you are working on. This guide is using GNU parted 3.1 Disclaimer: Parted is a partition modification tool make sure you have…
So I have some disks I got from a friend, he got them off ebay and they didn’t work for him, he couldn’t get his RAID controller to format them at all. After doing some research I came to the conclusion he didn’t have the equipment needed to reformat them. I offered to buy them…
So I had a hard drive crash due to a power outage. The disk was partly functional and I was able to pull most of the .ibd files and spent 15 hours rebuilding the database table by table. I recovered most of what I needed but not having an automated backup really bit me in…
So last night I finally got around to configuring my minecraft servers to start with the OS. The server hosting my minecraft servers is running CentOS 7. I run CentOS because Red Hat 9 was my first linux OS and I have since preferred RPM based systems over DEB based. Also CentOS is closer to…
