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Securely Erasing Disks

Posted on September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 by spmfox

It’s not often I find myself needing to wipe digital media, but every time I do it seems that I have to re-invent the wheel. I sat down and believe I finally have a good grasp on how to securely erase drives. Problem: Occasionally I need to erase drives before either recycling, selling, or giving…

Persistent SSH Tunnels

Posted on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 by spmfox

There are various uses for having a persistent SSH tunnel, similar to why you’d want a VPN but less complicated since network routing is not in the scope of these tunnels. This tutorial will cover how to use the tool autossh along with a systemd service to keep it running. Examples will be for CentOS,…

Unifi Video + Intel NUC

Posted on April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 by spmfox

My latest project is setting up an Intel NUC with Unifi Video for a family member who had a cheap camera recently die. This post will show some of the interesting specifics, but is not a A-Z guide. This project has a few requirements: Lowest price possible Unifi Video + Ubiquiti cameras Small power usage…

KVM & libvirt-guests + Network Bridge Issue

Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 by spmfox

I was trying to set up a simple hypervisor that would automatically suspend and resume a VM if the host was gracefully power cycled. It was very easy to set up, all I needed to do was enable the ‘libvirt-guests’ service. Without changing any options, each VM would be put basically into hibernation when the…

PiAware / FlightAware + Debian VM

Posted on March 1, 2019March 2, 2019 by spmfox

Some steps (and missteps) on getting FlightAware set up in a Debian VM.

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