Grand Canyon National Park
Pictures taken at the Grand Canyon National Park in AZ. Shot on Canon T3i and mostly using kit lenses: EFS 55-250MM 4-5.6 IS and EFS 18-55MM 3.5-5.6 IS II.
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Kingman
Pictures taken at the Visitor Center in Kingman, AZ, on our way to Grand Canyon. Shot on Canon T3i and mostly using kit lenses: EFS 55-250MM 4-5.6 IS and EFS 18-55MM 3.5-5.6 IS II.
Upgrading D-Link DIR-868L A1 firmware to Tomato
I was finally able to upgrade the firmware on my old but trusty D-Link DIR-868L router to Tomato firmware. The process is a little bit involved and it’s very easy to brick your router. Fortunately, this router provides a relatively easy way to perform recovery. Note this instruction is for …
mjml + jinja2 = awesome
If you have ever tried programmatically sending HTML emails, you probably know how giant of a pain in the rear it is. It’s all because while HTML has progressed in the world of Internet, the Email HTML is still way way behind. There are no set standards and most of …
SELinux fix to allow Docker containers access to Kernel modules
This is most likely after effect of Spectre and Meltdown Kernel patches rolled out for CentOS. My OpenVPN container could not access /dev/net/tun device even though the Run Script had necessary parameters. Fix setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules=1
SELinux fix for Mergerfs to allow Docker and Samba access
I recently started using Snapraid and Mergerfs setup to manage my disk pool. I have ~27TB of raw storage which I am managing. While setting up Mergerfs as usual ran into SELinux issues that will prohibit Docker and Samba access to the storage. So, here’s my fix. Samba setsebool -P …
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Docker Container for SMTP Relay
SMTP Relay service allows you to use an external SMTP server to send your mails through. After many frustrating hours of working with several SMTP Relay Docker Images, I finally found the one that works. Link: https://hub.docker.com/r/tecnativa/postfix-relay/ Configuration is very easy; Sample Run script docker run \ –name name\ -d …
Create To addresses for Local Linux Users
If you want to set external email address to be used as “To” address for System users then edit the file “/etc/mail.rc” Add entries such as alias root [email protected]
Docker Container for phpMyAdmin
Been containerizing a lot of my tools and just added phpMyAdmin to that list. It’s very easy to get going with it esp. if you also happen to have a Docker container running MySQL albeit with one minor issue. Official docker hub page: https://hub.docker.com/r/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/ Use an example Docker Run script …
Docker Transmission Container with Windscribe VPN
Found this awesome container that has Transmission with VPN support which I can use with Windscribe VPN. Docker Hub Link – https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/ Run command: docker run \ –name somename\ –restart=always \ –cap-add=NET_ADMIN \ –device=/dev/net/tun \ -d \ -v localdir:/data:z \ -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ –log-driver json-file \ –log-opt max-size=10m \ -p …