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iptables - Part 1
Updated:My understanding of iptables is rudimentary, and I thought it's time to improve on it. I have an understanding of firewalls, NAT and packet filtering, but

Home Automation
Over the past many years, I've added bits of home automation around the house. Starting with the Google Assistant. Want I didn't want was lots of hubs, for

New Favourite Colour Scheme
Updated:Tokyo Night After installing neovim I installed an IDE config from here . This made using vi/vim a whole lot better. Neovim gets themed with a colour schem

Virtual Machine Clustering
Updated:We've put together a number of mid-spec servers to carry out some testing on clustering using Proxmox . Many years ago I built a single Proxmox server and

Neovim = Vi to the max!
I recently came across Neovim, and to say I'm impressed is an understatement. For years, I have used vi to edit files on Linux. Nano and pico should be bur

certbot and upnp
I don't tend to open port 80 to the outside world on my home system. I have no need of an unsecured, unencrypted web service. For this reason, getting a ce

Great Free and Open Source Software
Updated:Over time I've encountered some great pieces of Free and Open Source Software. I just wanted to list a few noteworthy products in a single place I can refe


Uptime Kuma
Updated:This is a killer application! A very elegant and simple to use system monitor. Monitor your systems' docker containers, website certificate expiry dates, D

Git Large File Storage
We have a client that needs their legacy system and data giving to them in a useable format. We can't really give them the code to build the system, as the