Setting up MikroTik hAP ac² with the basic functionality to replace my ISP provided router including working IPv6. read more →
Figuring out how to factory reset my used MikroTik hAP ac² read more →
The story of my love affair with old crusty hardware and the beginnings of my plan to turn my shed into my own personal cloud provider. read more →
The pros and cons, and how to migrate to Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups. read more →
How to use AWS Spot instances in your production EKS cluster without causing an outage. read more →
How to effectively add arm64 nodes into an existing amd64 Kubernetes cluster without making problems for yourself. read more →
I've never been able to find a way to silently install the Fortinet SSLVPN client with Group Policy or otherwise. Today I had a bit of a break through. read more →
I needed a way of finding a list of machines where the JRE install had failed or not run because the user hasn't rebooted for a while. So basically I needed to check that the Java install directory was present on all PCs on the Windows domain. read more →
Yesterday I helped out at #CodeOff2015, an event that my employer Snowflake Software runs every year at the Electronics and Computer Science department at the University of Southampton. We give students the day to write software to solve a problem th ... read more →
I'm a Linux guy; I find it to be the most intuitive operating system for most tasks, even on a Laptop. At home I use Arch Linux and at work I've recently moved from the Windows 7 workstation I've been using for the last 10 months to Ubuntu GNOME on a ... read more →