One of my learnings from my Peru and Vancouver Island trips was that I should be spending more time creating and hosting my own content. And over time I realised that it was time to self host as much of my infrastructure as possible. I will cover the reasons for this below. This endevour isn’t… Read More »
I recently got a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for daily use and one of my main intention to getting it was to run Linux on it. I was jealous of the ARM hardware that Apple users had access to. After being really frustrated with running Windows for work, I decided to see what it was… Read More »
I recently moved into a new apartment and could finally consider owning a PC. I wanted to build a desktop for work, running Linux VMs and for Microsoft Flight Simulator. I’m training to become a pilot and I felt it would help me save time and money if I could fly virtually. At the same… Read More »
I needed a dedicated server for running a few VMs. I decided to get a server in Montreal from Kimsufi. This guide should also work with other dedicated server providers, including sister companies of Kimsufi like OVH and SoYouStart. This is a write-up on how to set it up. These are some things that I… Read More »
On 13 October 2018 I had given a talk about Devops – The art of managing infrastructure at scale at a Cofee and Code event held at 91Springboard, Goa. In the talk I spoke about managing infrastructure from different perspectives – developer, Linux sysadmin, network admin and leveraging open source tools to do so. I… Read More »
Just wanted to share a few updates about blog and life. TLS 1.3 with 0-RTT TLS 1.3 is a new standard of encryption on the web and I have implemented it! This should result in faster load times and improved security for the users. ECDSA certs are enabled too, along with RSA for better performance.… Read More »
Everyone’s favorite SSL certificate authority Let’s Encrypt recently announced support for wildcard SSL certificates on their forum here using the ACMEv2 API. Wildcard SSL certificates still cost as much as $150-300/yr on the market. Getting them for free is a huge bonus. Install Certbot Grab the Certbot tool for issuing Let’s Encrypt signed SSL certificates.… Read More »
I needed a fast connection between my NAS and my VM server. So I set on to the mission of doing 10 Gbps network connectivity for as cheap as possible. This is mainly to run iSCSI for VMs. I had looked at Infiband as well. However driver support was poor and things aren’t guaranteed to… Read More »
Encounter the “Not logged into Rocket League servers” error while trying to get online on the Rocket League game on Linux? Here’s a fix. Rocket League needs SSL to communicate with their servers. So the first steps would be to: Make sure the system time and date is correct. I use UTC hardware clock. Make… Read More »
These instructions apply only for GCN 1.0/Southern Island cards and GCN 1.1/Sea Islands cards. You can check if your card falls in this categories here. The AMDGPU driver is a newer driver for GNU/Linux and promises better performance and Vulkan support. You will need to do two steps to make it work. Userspace drivers –… Read More »