A while back, scrolling through YouTube, I stumbled across a video titled "High Availability Pi-Hole? Yes Please!", which I thought was interesting - it seemed to address a problem that I didn't really think I had.. but why not poke around at it? Pi-Hole is a network-wide ad blocking DNS server. It can …

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One more issue to solve... We have one domain controller at work that is kinda critical to the entire operation. I mean, not like this particular server is the only AD server on the site, but it somehow became only LDAPS server responsible for authentication for non-AD enabled services. Like VPN. Like our ERP. So when …

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More on the host configuration In my last post on this topic, I had left a to-do to get LetsEncrypt setup and running on the host. After spending quite a bit of time on the effort and learning what tools were at my disposal, I figured out (pretty late in the process) that.. my initial approach had a considerable flaw: …

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Backstory I think just about everyone of my posts I start with some sort of justification why I'm writing the post. I don't really know why .. other than I think it serves as a good reminder of what I was doing when I wrote the darned post ... As usual, these things start off at work. We had a bit of a security audit …

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Some of my notes on how we used PowerApps to solve some COVID problems at work I should have done this sooner, because I'm not likely to remember all the details too much. This won't be a "technology post" so much, or even a how-to - maybe more a reminder of the tools we used to solve the problems we ran into …

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And just like that, all my base are belong to Cloudflare. It started with DNS ... It started out pretty simply: Cloudflare offered front-end caching for your website, provided you ran your DNS through them. They would proxy the connections for me, provide SSL (through Lets Encrypt), and I could still update DNS through …

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Maps on portable devices Getting working maps on a mobile device is reasonably straightforward, especially if you're able to be connected to a cellular service. The challenge starts to increase when you may not have connectivity, or have limited bandwidth or speed on your device. Offline maps within tools like Google …

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Say what now? Sure, MS, VirusTotal really is a nefarious site that you should prevent me from going to.

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We started back in May 6, 2015 - we deconstructed the old bathtub, cut it up, and threw it out. The tub had a good crack in the bottom of it, and as it turned out, it had been leaking on to the subfloor below it. Nothing major in terms of damage - most of the water had been soaked up by the wood in the bathtub …

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So, I can write a PDF... Last post I managed to generate an empty PDF with Powershell using iText, after working through dependencies and order of inclusion for running some .NET libraries in powershell. It's made me wonder if there's a better way to handle the inclusion of libraries in a Powershell script, and if …

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