Monday, Monday

Well the week is starting off rocky!  Unable to get my print server setup in ubuntu core spend several hours trying to get it to work and no bueno.  something with the spooler but not sur what, I have checked the cupsd.conf file and well lol.  I am going to have and shelf that for now and work on a workaround for my printing over the network.  I need to rebuild my Proxmox instances this week due to not being able to upgrade it to the newest version.  Tried everything I know, and it is a no go.  I need to do it anyway.  I need to upgrade the ram and the hard drives in that box and well lol!  I did however get samba working.  It will make it easier to get files moved over to the server without using a thumbdrive.  I might get FTP setup on that box too.  Everything is behind a firewall so let's give it a go!

AdGuard F.Y.I.

Okay

I had been having an issue with my Google Nest device the last couple of days that I thought was an issue with the power going out in my house several times in the last 10 days but no, it was AdGuard that was causing the problem.

Take note that embeddedassistant.googleapis.com is required to be unblocked for that device to work properly.  Hopefully I have fixed the issue.

Live and learn lol!

HumpDay

Well, it is Wednesday, and I am almost done for the week.  I was not able to get Nessus installed but I did get Crowdsec setup and running on a couple of devices in my environment.

Still working on my AdGuard Home setup as well as the Twingate setup.  AdGuard has sped up my internet browsing alot but still needs more tweaking . So many tools and so little time lol!

Happy Monday

Okay

Today I think I will try and get a SIEM setup again in my homelab.  Need to decide between Wazuh of Nessus.  Here we go!

Almost

Well I did not get a lot done the last couple of days.  Storms in Texas causing power outages all over.  I did, however, get my resume done and worked on my profiles for other online sites.  Not as productive as I wanted but I will take what I can get for now.

Now I will spend the rest of the day watching vidoes on wireshark and nmap.  Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

Okay

I have been working on this blogger site for 90 minutes now and can't quite figure out why my post's are displaying weird.  I try to change the settings on the blogger site but still the same thing.  I think I have a workaround for this which I am trying now.  worked on the previous post lol.

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Okay

It has come to my attention that I need to post more on this blog.  I know over the past several years I have been really bad at doing that which I blamed primarily on my job which I don't have anymore.  so I don't have an excuse now.  It was also brought to my attention that I can use this as a forum for posting my achievements while I work to get a new job so here we go!

Day 1

Finished by install of AdGuard Home and still working out the settings.  I did notice that it is bad at blocking Google ads even when you put the url source for the ad.  Weird

I refuse to believe I have to block the entire google domain to resolve this issue.  I will now just start noting the sites with Google ads I am having the issue with and circle back on this at a later date.

Now I need to work on getting my install of Home Assistant done.  Hopefully by end of day Friday.

Then next week I work on getting Windows Server 2019 setup and learning that from the ground up!

First Day Back

Well it has been a while, and a lot has changed for me.  More to come later lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here we go again

I got to stop buying equipment and not using it.  

Okay, trying to get away from cable so I am using a OTA tuner with a cheap window antenna.  I was getting 7 channels with half of them poor signal.  I have had a rabbit ear antenna in my closet for ever and thought I would never have any use for it until watching an episode of "Antenna Man" on Youtube who said it was feasible to use two antennas at the same time so I thought to myself, I have an adapter and cables to make that work so let me see what difference it makes on my signal.  Well as you may have guess it increased my signal strength and number of channels 50%.  Why didn't I try this a couple of years ago, why?

Oh well, all is good now.  I will go with this for a while and see how it goes.

Live and learn!!!!!!!!!

2020 What's new!

It has been a couple of years since my last post but here goes it.

I have been trying to get up to date with new tech..I had bought a powerline adapter kit for my network connection for my bedroom.   I have had these for the last 3 years but never broke them out of the box until a couple of days ago.  Wow, I am kicking my self in the butt for not setting these up sooner.  It was plug and play (no clicking of the pairing button or anything).  This thing is amazing!  I have my android box plugged into it(not happy with the android box, it is a vulnerability vector waiting to bit me in the butt) and it work okay with Youtube and PlutoTV.  I need to by one more pair of them to get the livingroom and kitchen setup but not sure about the throughput since the more you have plugged in the less throughput for them overall.

More to come!