Finding stories in everyday adventures
I don’t use Cortana very much. I don’t have Cortana powered speakers. I don’t have Cortana app installed on my cellphone and I don’t use any Windows Phones anymore… but one thing that I have and majority of people do is a Windows 10 computer. If you do own that, then Cortana comes installed by default on it and you can actually use it to do some really cool stuff if you happen to have …
Continuation of my previous post about fixing random Samba Share lockouts. I discovered that Docker and Samba were fighting to gain access to the folders. If I set the label to samba_share_t, then Docker loses access. If I allow Docker (with “Z” option while running container), then Docker resets the label to “svirt_sandbox_file_t”. How can I make both use it? Turns out there is a solution. Credit to this Serverfault post: https://serverfault.com/a/881098/449814 Create a new …
Ever had Samba shares on CentOS become randomly inaccessible? If so, I might have a cure… Turns out the culprit is (yet) again SELinux. Thank you SELinux for your super sensitive security policies… It turns out that you might have lost extra important SELinux label on the share and sub-folders. Don’t ask me why and how? Perhaps a boot failure or power failure or random act of God?! OK, here’s the solution you are looking …
Grub2 is a very frustrating bootloader esp. when it fails. Here are some of things I have tried that have worked in the past related to Grub2 errors. Symptom – System starts into Grub2 prompt or simply does not start. This happened to me recently when yum package update broke something in Grub. The system was booting into Grub2 prompt. This happened on my system because of bad grub.cfg file. Assuming you still have a …
Last week I built a print server at home. I already have a home server called Jarvis which does media sharing through Plex and runs this blog but it’s situated in the basement. The printer I wanted to use is a USB label printer therefore it wasn’t feasible for me to use Jarvis as a print server as it would have required a very long USB cable from basement to second floor where my home …
I recently built a print server at home where I have attached the Brother QL-700 label printer. That printer does not have Wireless printing feature and I wanted to have all computers in the house be able to use it over the network. I thought of buying a new label printer that comes with Wireless connectivity but I couldn’t find any brand new label printer less than $100. Then I had an idea. Why don’t …
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Picked up Wink Hub 2 last week. Pretty good as compared to Samsung Smartthings which is going back to Amazon.
Replaced the old thermostat with the smart Nest thermostat. Had always been wanting a smart thermostat and after we bought the house, it was the perfect opportunity to get it. The previous thermostat used to be an Aprilaire thermostat. I believe it also controlled a humidifier. However, there is no central humidifier I could find, therefore, it was only to control temperature.
I created a custom docker image for PHP that includes following: Custom PHP.ini file correct timezone configured Apache mod_rewrite enabled PHP PDO MySQL extension installed You can access it here. …and click here for Dockerfile link
My site and this blog is now completely on Docker containers. I really like the setup and it wasn’t too difficult to achieve. This will help me reduce my physical server to bare minimums required to keep Docker containers running. Docker is amazing and truly revolutionary!