Tech for me...and you too...I guess
Safari & Full Height Flexbox Children
As some of you may have noticed, I recently did a slight redesign of this site. I picked up some new CSS tricks and definitely upped my JQuery game in the past year and after taking a long hiatus from posting to this site, I noticed how unhappy I was with its look. Please go easy on me as this is only the 2nd website I’ve ever built.
One of the changes I tried making last yea ...
Migrating From MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.2 on Ubuntu 16.04
For those unfamiliar with MariaDB, it’s a fork of MySQL that is dedicated to remaining free to use. It was created the day Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems in 2010 who had previously acquired MySQL in 2008. MariaDB was built by the very developers who worked on MySQL and for most users the transition to MariaDB should be fairly painless. All of the clients and tools that work with MySQL wor ...
unRAID NVIDIA GPU Passthrough Fix (QEMU)
I tried out unRAID last year as an alternative to VMWare vSphere because getting non-server hardware to work with vSphere is getting more difficult with each release. Now I know that unRAID’s bread and butter is functioning as a NAS, but in recent releases they’ve added a ton of features, one of them being VM hosting support via QEMU. One of the surprising features that led me to eventually pu ...
Connecting a “Smart Switch” to a Smarter Switch
A couple months ago, a customer of mine was kind enough to donate some decommissioned Cisco Catalyst 3750G’s to me. I was happy to accept them as my test lab was growing in size and I had the need for multiple network segments. With the switches capable of doing Etherchannel, VLAN Trunking & Stacking I finally had a large-scale network infrastructure which in all honesty is probably overkill f ...
Unmasking the Subnet
If you’ve connected a computer to the Internet, you’ve probably heard of an IP address. Most people, however, quickly gloss over IP’s little brother, the often forgotten and sorely misunderstood, Subnet Mask. You’ve seen him, but probably never knew his name. He usually looks like this.
While this is the Subnet Mask you’ll most often see, you may run into others that look very differ ...
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