Category Archives: New Toys

Holy Thursday 2022

Day Started Great Ended Bad, I finally cracked 350 for three consecutive days, so officially under 350. Thought I would try to push myself and went around RTC for three times, unfortunately on the second round, I was sprayed with … Continue reading →

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Surprise Storm Back From Canada

Was a fun trip from Canada, border was easy, but we were running a bit slow. But surprise when we got back there was a wind storm. Normally I would be posting about the trip, maybe tomorrow, but I will … Continue reading →

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Feeling Better

Getting better, not so bad as yesterday. Weigh gain is disturbing. But got a bunch of little things done, finally moved most of our stuff from storage Also got a high endurance 128GB SD card for my car camera. Set … Continue reading →

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DNS Troubles all around

Having some weird DNS troubles, I think I will write a script to try and fix it. But seems like only DNS servers that use DoH are having problems. I suspect the clouflared connector is having problems. Sucks but maybe … Continue reading →

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Dusting Off the Blog

This is a blog I post daily, but the external blog my.apolonio.tech needed some love. So I will be focusing a bit of my time developing that site. So apologizing in advance for not having deep content on this blog. … Continue reading →

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STEP-CA not so bad

I am still on the fence with step-ca, installation is easy, here it is with Rocky or CentOS wget https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.18.2/step-cli_0.18.2_amd64.rpm wget https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/certificates/gh-release-header/v0.18.2/step-ca_linux_0.18.2_amd64.tar.gz yum -y install step-cli_0.18.2_amd64.rpm tar zxvf step-ca_linux_0.18.2_amd64.tar.gz mkdir bin cp -p step-ca_0.18.2/bin/step-ca ~/bin step version step-ca version Done, … Continue reading →

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Learning Step CA

Need to learn another CA utility. First I learned Microsoft, then OpenSSL, then XCA, now want to learn STEP CA. At least I am one up and know Certs, the concepts, and what it takes. Need to document this new … Continue reading →

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USB Boot Media

I have used Flash Drive based boot media for my Linux box. But when I started using and SSD drive instead, my builds and boot times were much faster. Setting up this post to show someone that asks what I … Continue reading →

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No Workout Today

I tried to schedule a workout today, then I noticed the slots were full, I would not be able to work out today. Maybe tomorrow there will be an opening so I can work out. Starting to look at setting … Continue reading →

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More Gym Rat Time

Another long day working out. Not quite the two hours, but it was long. Feeling accomplished too. Got xca running in wyland on Rocky8 via guacamole GUI and RDP. With 2FA it should be pretty secure. Weight: 352.0

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