NixOS
Installing NixOS on a ThinkPad T480s (with encrypted ZFS)
I set up my ThinkPad T480S to run NixOS with native ZFS encryption and a swap partition encrypted with a new random key every boot. Here's how.
Rocky Hetherington
A boring mid-forties guy who was born and has lived his whole life on the Isle of Wight, but dreams of one day going somewhere else. Aromantic & Aplatonic. Pronouns: He/Him.
Incus
Running Unifi Network Application in an Incus container
Setting up the Unifi Network Application and MongoDB using Quadlets in an Alma Linux Incus container.
Incus
Setting up Incus with ZFS on NixOS
In this guide i setup a NixOS system with ZFS root and bridged networking for use as an Incus container/VM host.
XMPP
Setting up XMPP (Prosody) on Debian Bookworm
Howto on setting up and running Prosody XMPP server on Debian 12, Bookworm.
VPS
Blog migrated to GreenCloud
This blog has been migrated from Inception Hosting to GreenCloud.
Blog
Blog maintenance
Moving my Ghost blog database from SQLite to MySQL & some optimisations.
Blog
It's alive!
Blog resurrected!
Blog
A G-G-G-Ghost
Blog updated to run on Ghost. Hopefully i'll now post more often!
Money Saving
Cheap domains and inexpensive Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
Just a few special offers on domains and VPS that are currently available from various providers.
Blog
New theme and domain move
New theme for the site.
Ad Blocking
Ad blocking using DNS and Privoxy (with Squid for caching)
Chaining Squid and Privoxy for caching and ad-blocking combined with DNS-based ad-blocking using dnsmasq.
IPv6
Native IPv6 on Zen and IPv6-availability for this site
My ISP, Zen, now provides native IPv6, and i've also made this site available over IPv6.