Education and Technology with a focus on Free Software.
Latest Wiki: //ispconfig// This tutorial is for self-hosting your own authoritative DNS server using ISP Config and bind9. The requirements are that you own three IPs, have a domain dedicated just for this with three A records pointing towards three clean Debian installs on each of the VMs. The names would be ns1.server.com, ns2.server.com, and…
Latest Wiki: //vpnserver-debian// This tutorial is for installing a simple openvpn server on a public facing VPS and/or self-hosted virtualization stack. In my case, I am using a slim Debian boot OS, with two zfs pools in RAID10 or two-way mirror setups. I use virsh primarily and/or virt-manager with qemu/kvm to manage the stack. The…
Just a reminder that the blog posts do get out of date, but I maintain changes/upgrades to this this workflow on my Wiki: rsyncrsnapshot As many folks know, I teach full time at both the college and high school levels, but I also run a side IT business that focuses on educators, small businesses, and…
windows11-vm Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking webmaster@haacksnetworking.org //windows11-vm// Alright, so to make Windows 11 work on a GNU/Linux VM with virt-manager you need UEFI-based secure boot and a TPM module. Here’s what I did after searching online for a few days. First, set up a TPM module on your host OS: sudo apt -y install dpkg-dev…
In the last post, I shared what my fallback teaching methodology is for digital learning classes, but I focused mainly on the pedagogy and not the infrastructure or, guiding framework, underpinning those approaches. I did not talk about what types of software/hardware I use, how those help me work, and why/how I came to choose…
Friend, Thanks for calling on me to provide a few suggestions about how I approach digital learning, blended learning, online learning, distance learning, etc. Yes, lots of terms over the years, so forgive me for jesting, but overall I break down the approaches into two groups (synchronous/asynchronous) and I have a few primary collaborative add-ons…
Hope everyone is well. I was busy setting up a new home network system at a client’s house which involved me flashing some routers and setting one up as an AP. In the process, I reviewed my vpn server tutorial, which was terribly out of date, and I decided to update it so that it…
This tutorial is for users of Debian who have already established a host with TLS/LAMP and want to create a Munin instance to monitor the host. If you have not yet completed that, please begin with ApacheSurvival. (As always, please refer to the Wiki post here for the latest instructions and documentation.) Okay, as long…
Folks these days would love to be able to stream their own music as effortlessly as Spotify, Apple Music, and other proprietary services, but often do not know how to do so. This tutorial is designed to provide a Free Software solution for music and media streaming. Using the documentation docs here and across a…
#hacking #freesoftware #gnulinux – as always check the wiki for the latest tutorial This tutorial is a bit simpler than the last one. I finally got tired of my email triggering recipients SPAM filters, and worse, I was sometimes flagged by other tech colleagues’ services because of my domains lacking these records. After a bit…