W4JDH

Downsizing

by W4JDH
Well, this is something I never wanted to talk about. My father has terminal cancer, and the home I’ve known for a very long time will be put on the market after he is gone, however long that takes, so I am starting to get my homelab reduced in size as far as I can ... Read More

APRS Fun!

by W4JDH
Hi folks! I’ve got a bit to report! I’ve been migrating my Linux servers to Debian from RHEL-derived distributions, and the last one to be migrated was the APRS node. I’ve had W4JDH-1 connected to APRS-IS for a long time: at least since 2011 and possibly earlier. For the longest time it was Xastir in ... Read More

The AWA Post, Vers. 2021 and 2022

by W4JDH
Yikes! It’s been ages since I wrote here… What today’s post will be is a combination of con reports for AWA in 2021 as well as last weekend’s 2022 edition. 2021 I wasn’t going to keep my hotel reservation until the Atlanta Braves made it to the World Series, which they eventually won. I’d initially ... Read More

CentOS 8 iGate

by W4JDH
Hey, the title rhymes! I spent the past couple of days getting most of my Linux VMs set up on CentOS 8: the two that aren’t are the PowerChute appliance and my UniFi Controller. One of the VMs was set up as an APRS iGate using Xastir on Fedora previously, so I had to come ... Read More

Server Update 2

by W4JDH
We’re now running on CentOS 8 with a symmetrical gigabit connection.

Server Update

by W4JDH
This server now runs on CentOS 7! Additionally, on Friday evening my network port at the data center is being upgraded to 1 Gbps! Back to the work day…

AWA XXV

by W4JDH
It’s been over a week since I got back from attending Anime Weekend Atlanta for the 16th year in a row, and if I had to be honest with myself, this really was the best one ever. It had nothing to do with the convention’s content but rather had to do with getting to hang ... Read More

Current State

by W4JDH
Hi! It’s been ages since I wrote here… I’ll try to be better. I now am self-hosting my personal websites as I put a server in a local datacenter recently. It’s something fun, and hardening WordPress is now something more easily doable since I have root on the server. That’s all for now!

Anime Weekend Atlanta, Sans Car

by W4JDH
Hi there! I’ve changed jobs since the last post, and my new job has me running all over town doing computer work! I was at one of my company’s clients in 900 Circle 75 Parkway one day this past week, and the office I was working in overlooked the pedestrian bridge between the Cobb Galleria ... Read More

Hardening a Raspberry Pi-based Digital Hotspot

by W4JDH
This issue came up at work this week. I received two phone calls from customers who were having issues with their Raspberry Pi-based D-STAR Hotspot: something was corrupting the microSD card. One wanted to get the built-in halt/reboot options working, and he eventually did with the help of the image’s site. The second brought his ... Read More