Tag Archives: linux

Building Fanless Virtualized Desktop

By | 21st May 2023

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 »

Proxmox with OPNSense setup on dedicated server

By | 8th January 2022

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 »

My talk about DevOps at Coffee and Code, Goa

By | 15th December 2018

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 »

Updates to blog – BGP, IPv6, TLS 1.3 and more

By | 8th December 2018

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 »

Free wildcard certs with Let’s Encrypt & DNS auth ft. Route 53

By | 17th May 2018

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 »

10 Gbps network for less than $60

By | 12th March 2017

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 »

How to fix “Not logged into Rocket League servers” error on Linux

By | 28th January 2017

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 »

How to use AMDGPU driver for Southern Islands and Sea Islands card on Ubuntu Linux

By | 19th December 2016

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 »

Backing up LXC containers with automation

By | 1st December 2016

Short blog post to post a script I wrote to backup LXC containers with encryption and push notifications. 🙂 Manually backing up LXC containers was a pain and I wrote a script in some free time that I had to automate all of this. Plus it pushes updates to Twitter, Pushbullet and email and encrypts… Read More »

My presentation about LXC containers at GDG Devfest, ICG

By | 23rd October 2016

Yesterday I presented a talk at GDG(Google Developer Group) Devfest about Stop using Docker! Fun with Linux containers and networking. The venue was International Centre Goa. Many people had a lot of doubts. Of course there wasn’t enough time for everyone to get all their queries in and things were a little difficult for many… Read More »