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CentOS 8 iGate

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

Site UpdatesLeave a Comment

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

Server Update

Networking, Site UpdatesLeave a Comment

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

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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

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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

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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

Computers, D-STAR, Ham RadioLeave a Comment

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

Server Consolidation

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I spend a fairly large amount of time browsing /r/homelab because I, at one point, had a rudimentary “home lab” set up. It wasn’t anything fancy, mostly because back in 2003 or 2004 server virtualization wasn’t a big thing, as far as I can tell. It was mostly a firewall and single whitebox server with ... Read More

We’re Back! With Radio Fun!

Computers, D-STAR, Ham RadioLeave a Comment

Hi there! This is a landmark first post in almost four years here on w4jdh.net! Today we’re diving into the realm of amateur (ham) radio and Linux, specifically how to set Arch Linux up as both an APRS I-Gate and a dual-band D-STAR hotspot using the G4KLX software compiled from source. Assuming you don’t have ... Read More

Photoblog 2

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Looks like autumn to me!