Ram's Technology Notes
I recently built a new home server (post about this later) and as part of this reboot decided to setup proxmox and utilize containers for improving security and isolation for different services hosted in my home server. Everything has worked quite well (another post about this later) but because I wanted to keep my old…
Here are some useful commands for managing a Proxmox server and containers:
I am setting up a new home server and before I install final headless software, I am doing burn in tests where I am using a desktop install (Kubuntu specifically). I wanted to set up remote access for the desktop. Played with different VNC servers and clients and experienced terrible latency issues on a multi-gigabit…
This was way more annoying than it should have been – I am using imwheel to increase scroll speed and wanted to set up my Manjaro 5.15 KDE environment so that it starts automatically at startup. The following things did not work: Setting up an autostart shortcut to imwheel Setting up a login script for…
You should in general prefer to install from the official Manjaro or AUR repos whenever possible. But in the rare case (cough Microsoft Edge cough) where this is not possible, here are a sequence of steps you can follow to install a .deb package in Manjaro (and other Arch based distros) You need to install…
This is the set of steps you need to take to enable complex touchpad gestures in Manjaro (KDE, but should work for other desktop environments as well). By default, single and double finger gestures should work and are configurable in the default touchpad configuration settings. However, three finger and other gestures are not available by…
So you want to host your own web site instead of taking the easy route out with Medium, WordPress and other providers for simple blogs like these – there are a few things you need to set up. This brief guide will help you understand the different pieces to set up and providers you can…
I had set up keeweb self-hosting and also had cloudflare enabled on the domain that was doing the self-hosting. Everything was working fine until a few days ago when the self-hosted domain simply showed an empty page. Devtools console revealed that the issue was a problem with content security policy in keeweb (does not allow…
After the recent upgrade of my home server to Ubuntu 20.04, Sonos was again having trouble accessing the SMB shared folder for my music library. Turns out that the newer version of Samba in Ubuntu 20.04 turns off SMBv1 by default. Simply adding server min protocol = NT1 to /etc/samba/smb.conf and systemctl restart smbd fixed…
I finally upgraded my headless home server that was running Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 – I only run long-term support releases (LTS) builds as this is my main home server with functionality that we all depend on for managing our data and household digital storage. I used do-release-upgrade to do the upgrade. Overall, it was…