I was recently tasked with creating a small deployment to host a single virtual machine at a customer site. The purpose of the virtual machine was to provide us with remote access to a specific customer resource that was otherwise unavailable to us. The deployment consisted of two physical machines running as Proxmox hypervisors (node-1 […]
So, I’ve mentioned in a post or two that I have a home automation system running, but haven’t really talked about what it is or what it can do… Well, here’s an overview! What is it? Home-Assistant. It’s a fairly new home automation (HA) platform, that has gained a large following over the past couple
I’ve been working on getting the opensource Openfire XMPP server and it’s clustering component up and running in a testing environment. I quickly found out that enabling the clustering plugin from the “Available plugins” section of the admin interface simply does not work at all. In trying to get this configured and working, I’ve had
So, I recently picked up a Linksys SPA-3102 PTSN Gateway with one FXO and FXS port. I wanted to use this to connect our home phone line to an Asterisk server. Asterisk is a software based PBX system that runs on just about any linux distro. Anyway, I quickly discovered that configuring the SPA-3102 was
Switching back to the Palm Pre hasn’t been as painful as I thought it might be. With that said, there are definitely a few things that need to be changed about the phone. First, it’s too slow. Scrolling through my contact list is stop and go at best. Secondly, where are my apps?! The App
I’ve spent the past two evenings hammering WordPress and Apache into shape, which has been a new experience for me. There were two items that were giving me some frustration; permalinks and SSL. My issue with the permalink structure was that whenever I changed it to something other than the default, all links to posts