iMeddles

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had some spare time today, so I wrote it up on my website here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't at the moment, because I don't have a need for it, but I did for a while run a PoC with Step CA, and that seems like the easiest way to get up and running, even if its features are overkill for a home lab.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

if you go down the luks route, an option to look at is Clevis/Tang for automatic unlocking on a trusted network. I have a tang server running in the cloud, firewalled to my home IP, so if my server reboots in my house, it auto unlocks, but if you steal it and try to turn it on anywhere else, it won't be able to auto unlock, and will require a password.

I should write that config up somewhere as a guide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every machine is named after what it does (although I do 1337-ify the names, because I'm still a late 90s IRC teen at heart). If you've ever been onboarded into a sysadmin role where all the machines are named with whatever whimsical naming scheme each department chose, you'll fast develop a visceral hatred for non-descriptive naming schemes. The fifth time you get a ticket saying something like 'Hedwig is down' and you have to go crawling through three layers of linked files on SharePoint to find what and where 'Hedwig' is, you'll be ready to beat the person who named it to death, and that attitude tends to persist to your home naming scheme :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Went to university to study Bioinformatics. There I discovered I don't really like biology, but I did really like getting paid beer to fix other student's computers. Especially when they were desperate around submission deadlines cos they hadn't backed up their work for weeks/months before their computer went kaput.

I've been a sysadmin now for 13 years since graduating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit... for years archive.org only had fairyland and I'd given up on this one ever appearing. Thanks so so much for spotting this. MY QUEST IS OVER. Time to see just how crap it is :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun School 6: Futureland. Its a shitty edutainment game from the 90s that I played non-stop for like a year, that I want to get my hands on for nostalgia purposes. As far as I can tell its not available (online or physical media) anywhere. I finally found a copy for sale a few years ago, but it turned out to be a mislabelled copy of fun school 6: fairyland.

I will keep searching, eventually a copy will show up somewhere!