Weekend hobby – PC cleaning
This is a PC that belongs to my brother in law. He hasn’t been using it for over a year, ever since he switched to Mac, so he’d like to get rid of it. It has i5 (Sandy bridge) inside …
Author: Vratislav Hutsky
KVM: Cannot find any matching source devices for logical volume group vg2
I installed Centos 7 on a brand new machine about a half a year ago, and set up KVM with two data pools – one just a regular directory for old raw images, the second being an LVM volume group. …
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IPv6 with gateway in a different subnet
I’ve run across this peculiar problem. I was trying to set up IPv6 on a Centos 6 machine. I thought that it would be a simple task – a couple of minutes at most – as I had done that …
Raspberry Pi – analog output noise
I got Raspberry Pi 2 as a present from my brother. It’s a nice toy, I was trying out OpenELEC, it makes for a really nice home theater in combination with a NAS on local network. The only drawback was …
Scroll emulation with Trackman Marble in Debian 9
Spending a lot of time with mouse and keyboard, I decided I would give it a try with trackball. A friend lent me Logitech Trackman Marble for a week to see if I can get used to it. The one …
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header_checks and Spamassassin headers in Postfix 2.6
I’ve had this mail server of mine for some time. I was an early adopter of Gmail back then, but as years went on and it became obvious that messages were data-mined by Gmail, I eventually started running my own …
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Apache and umask 002
I ran into a problem with Apache on Centos 6. For some time, I was the only person who had access to this particular machine so permissions were not a problem. However, now that somebody else is taking care of the website …
“Lazy” Synolocker
A funny thing happened to me the other day. Someone brought me a 4-bay Synology NAS which had been hit by ransomware called Synolocker. The usual scenario – the NAS was exposed to the internet, maybe not updated as regularly …
Blackthorne
Yet another game from the 90’s that I wanted to tick off as done. Here are a few screenshots:
Centos 7 – bridge for KVM
I got a machine on which I wanted to try Centos 7 and KVM virtualization. As usual, I had to search for how to do a network bridge as it’s been quite long since I did it last time (on …