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Got tired of crappy PG&E power messing up my filesystems and got an APC UPS. Next step was getting it setup to shutdown all of the VMs and then the VMware host. I used an Ubuntu 18.04 VM. First thing is to pass through the APC USB connection. This can be done just from the […]

I needed and alias setup for my macOS mail recently. I tried to use https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/mail/mlhlp1205/mac but the aliases didn’t stick. Finally after consulting the Console I got an error saying that there could be only one account with that name (thanks Highlander.) I checked my Internet Accounts and found that there was indeed a second […]

If you have a DirecTV DVR and are tired of the ads during pause here is what I found to block to stop the ads. I use the great OPNsense, but any firewall will do.

My Blue Yeti microphone slowly stopped working and I finally figured out how to fix it after Ohming the connections out with my Fluke. Follow the disassembly guide from the awesome iFixit here https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Blue+Yeti+Disassembly/111262 After that you essentially want to gently mangle the micro-USB connector into something like the below picture. The cable should fit […]

Xiao Guoan runs a great site here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ If you want help with best practices for email spam reduction she has a great post here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/blocking-email-spam-postfix-centos My $.02 on this is adding to her smtpd_helo_restrictions. I recommend sender_access as it is a standard and can be used elsewhere like this: smtpd_helo_restrictions =       […]

I have 2 IPs on a single box and want to run SSH on 443 because fuck firewalls. SELinux isn’t happy about adding port 443 for SSH as HTTPS “owns” it. Instead I forwarded 443 on 1 IP to the SSH port I already ran. Don’t use port 22…. Looks like this: firewall-cmd –zone=public –add-rich-rule=’rule […]