Computer Shennanigans
Introduction Wanting to deepen my understanding of Apache Tomcat and enterprise Java web architectures, I decided to create something practical that would force me to engage with various aspects of Tomcat deployment and configuration. Introducing RetroFeed, a proxy server that transforms Mastodon feeds into plain text for the terminal or text-only HTML for vintage computers. …
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I’ve been wanting to learn Kubernetes for a while and I suppose I could have just installed minikube on my laptop, but where is the thrill in that? I want an actual cluster with multiple bare metal nodes. I was inspired by some of the Raspberry Pi projects I saw online, but I’m too cheap …
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In this video, I explain subnet masks for the beginner, or anyone who never quite understood subnet masking. I created this video as an exercise in instructional video making. I hope you find it useful.
In computer science, parity data is like a magic trick. When students first learn about RAID, the concept is often glossed over, and only the attributes of parity data are explained: data from one drive can be used to recover from a loss of any other drive in the array, even though the size of …
I recently spun up a RHEL 8 server on my favorite cloud service to use as part of my study lab for RHCSA. I created a login for my brother, who is also studying similar topics. I thought it might be fun to ambush him with some silly messages using the write and wall commands …
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