A Technology Blog and Stuff by Peter Wong
Why the blog went silent This blog has been quiet since 2014. Not because I stopped tinkering — the homelab kept growing (TrueNAS, UniFi, Proxmox/KVM, solar automation) — but because life happened and the site…
Merlin has a custom Asuswrt firmware for the RT-AC66U router which can be found at its new home at https://www.mediafire.com/asuswrt-merlin/# With this firmware Merlin adds some needed feature that Asus lefted out see below. Using IPv6 can…
Run: $ apt-get update $ apt-get -yy install gcc mercurial libpam0g-dev git $ git clone https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/ $ cd google-authenticator/libpam $ make install Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and change the ChallengeResponseAuthentication from no to yes edit /etc/pam.d/common-auth…
If you get the this error message "mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory" while trying to mount a Windows SMB to a linux box. You need to configure Windows to act as a file server and…
Recently I have started using VMWare Workstation 8, this is really cool and seem to function better than VirtualBox. If you setup a virtual machine and set it to be shared, you can make it…
I just got the IOGEAR SuperSpeed USB 3.0 SD/Micro SD Card Reader / Writer yesterday and it's the fastest SD card reader i have ever seen. This was very cheap too, you can get it for…
I created a virtual Ubuntu server on my Windows HTPC box using VirtualBox and VBoxVmService. This is a great setup as I can have a HTPC that's always on with a Ubuntu server running on top. The…
I Nagios is a wonderful tool to monitor your network devices. Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Designed…
The latest version of Toastman Tomato Firmware is really nice (i'm using 1.28.7500.4). You can now monitor IP Traffic by IP, so you can find out if you have a rouge device on your network…
Centos 6 comes with the nouveau which doesn't work very well for my needs and the Nvidia driver works better. So heres the step to install kmod-nvidia as root. run "rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm" run "yum…
