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Tag: Tinkering

Stuff I attempt to fix or improve.

  • May have killed it this time

  • Basement

    Basement

    Posts are installed and the dinning room is way more level. Note I did not say level, just more level. Hundred year old house, blah blah blah.

    I saw white duct tape at the drug store and grabbed it right after they finished, so this happened. Not sure if I’ll leave it, or add more.

  • Basement support post upgrade

    Basement support post upgrade

    The guys came and installed the new concrete pads for the support posts. They dug down a couple feet and put some pretty good sized pads in. The basement floor is only like an inch think of concrete, so the posts weren’t really doing much anyway. They don’t guarantee that they can get the steel beam bent back into place, but it won’t get any worse.

    They’ll come back in 7-10 days and install the posts.

  • Camera System

    Camera System

    The new house came with a security and camera system. 2 TB NVR. I had to reset the thing to get into it, which was surprisingly simple. There was a switch wired to the mother board. I just had to hold it for like 30 seconds while powered on the device. Seems to be an embedded system. I’m not really seeing familiar logos on the board or anything, so I will probably stop with just having a working NVR, and not try to put linux on it.

  • Invention

    Decaffeinated Re-Caffeinated Coffee. The purpose is to enable super accurate dosing of caffeine. With the idea being you can find your optimum balance of goods versus negative effects. Companion app of course.

  • WireGuard VPN

    I’ve been just spinning up VMs left and right since I setup that Oracle VM. I decided that if I’m going to be out of town for a week, then I’d like to have a VPN in to the home network, so that I can get some work done. It is my vacation, so I’d like to do some hobbies.

    So far the config is pretty simple. I like the approch they are using with wiregaurd too. Very “unixy” in that it is just a network interface, that will encrypt with a private key, and decrypt with the client’s public key. There is almost no CPU usage. It does one thing and it does it well. Use what ever key management or authentication scheme you want.

    New VM on Universe. 2 GB ram and 25GB storage. Its pool is 100GB.

    package is just called wireguard

    ## Create the Wireguard virtual network adapter
$ sudo ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard

## Set proper umask for key files, and generate private and public key files
$ umask 077
$ wg genkey > privatekey
$ wg pubkey < privatekey > publickey

## Setup network
$ sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev wg0

## attach key to interface
$ wg set wg0 private-key ./private
## up
$ sudo ip link set wg0 up

## create /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
$ sudo vi /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf

contents of new file

[Interface]
SaveConfig = true
PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i wg0 -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o enp1s0 -j MASQUERADE;
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i wg0 -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o enp1s0 -j MASQUERADE;
ListenPort = 56990
PrivateKey = QETsE2fXOXC81R/MRYDYjHTyjZxfSlF2vuiCgK5nv0U=

[Peer]
PublicKey = L/VrqKjC5/harAftr+2w0I0hs0MPy0QgXGvvAKqYZlA=
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/32

  • Oracle Linux 8.4 Webserver Virtualization Project

    Oracle Linux 8.4 Webserver Virtualization Project

    Plan

    I’d like to move my webserver over to Oracle Linux, so that I can get more familiar with it for work, and I’d like to virtualize it. So I’ve got a 1 TB HD in a 5-6 gen i5. I’m also planning on testing my backups instead of restoring straight from the running system.

    Getting it set was fairly simple. I was able to get 8.4 installed with just the virtualization features. I’ve got a bare install of 8.4 installed in a VM called thecwebVirt. So with the backup of my package list from thecweb, and the tar of /var/www, it should be fairly quick to spin this bitch back up. Oh, and I got a tar etc too.

    Now I’m planning on setting up a caching DNS server to see if I can noticeably speed up my web browsing. I’ve never run my own D

    NS server, but I should probably get some practice. Also, it’ll give me something to do while I’m in Zion National Park next week.

    Simple, yet functional interface.

  • Hey, I can embed a pace calculator!!!

    But will I ever use it?

  • I bought a few more domain names on a whim

    Listing them here as a reminder, and also to get the sweet, sweet, SEO baby!

    http://chrisweber.online

    http://chrisweber.design

    http://chrisweber.lol

    Currently that all point here, but I’ll figure out what to do with them at some point. I was thinking for the .lol one, I could slap together something that would turn all the body text of this site into something funny, and output it to chrisweber.lol.

  • Cut down the dead tree in the front yard

    It was an evergreen tree that got some sort of blight. The blight was going around the Midwest for probably ten years now. Colorado got hit hard.

    You can faintly hear me yell “wohoo!”.