For a while, I’ve used Microsoft’s DHCP server in my home lab. Within the last year though, I’ve started having issues where my Unifi WAP’s would have trouble getting an IP address. If I rebooted the WAP’s, everything was fine. Because of this, I don’t really think its a problem with my DHCP server or […]
A few weeks ago, I upgraded the dashcam in my truck. The one I had was just a little inexpensive one that my grandmother gave me for Christmas one year I think. It wasn’t anything fancy, wasn’t super high resolution, but it worked. It was a pain in the butt though if I ever wanted […]
A few nights ago, we had a pretty severe storm come through and my house lost power for an extended period of time. When it became apparent that the power might be out longer than my UPS’s could support, I shut down my servers safely, and went to bed for the night. When I woke […]
When I started designing my new home a couple years ago, I knew I wanted whole home audio. What I didn’t know at the time was how expensive the products on the market were. I wanted 10 stereo zones of audio in the house, and there was no way I was going to pay $600 […]
Last year, I was tasked with implementing “Chef” at work. It’s an impressive tool set, and I recommend you check out out (https://www.chef.io/). However, one of the things I noticed right off the bat is how poor the performance is on windows. From what I’m told by the developers, this is mainly because it’s based […]
This falls more into the category of a “want” and not a “need,” but I just had my 40th birthday and wanted to buy myself something pretty. My “old” rig was built in August of 2014, and since then, the only thing I’ve changed in it was adding a second NVMe drive (Samsung 970 PRO […]
Let’s setup a simple example. We’ll have an nginx (Linux) container that acts as a reverse proxy to an IIS (Windows) container. First, lets switch to windows containers. Right click the Docker icon in your system tray, and choose “Switch to Windows containers…”. If you don’t see this option, you’re probably already there. Next, let’s […]
Over the years, I’ve thought about setting up a blog, but never followed through with it. Like most developers, I’m inherently lazy. I also know that making myself make time to write posts will be extremely difficult. My wife needed one though, so, to learn docker and containers, I made setting up her blog my […]