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2021 C-HR

May 1, 2023

New to me C-HR Got me a new car. The ole minivan has had it.   I decided to do some things to it right…

Stereo Cabinet Mod

April 22, 2023

My daughter got an old stereo cabinet from her Grandmother. It was in good shape, but had a couple issues. The turn table was seized.…

GoPhish Server

November 22, 2022

Decided we needed a new way to do spam/phishing campaign at work. To this end I decided to install a GoPhish server. There were a…

Elevated Garden

May 2, 2021

Elevated Garden Old raised garden, on the ground, bed has rotted out. Decided to make a smaller elevated garden.. I stared off with a couple…

Mechanical Keyboard not working

December 30, 2020

Mechanical Keyboard My mechanical keyboard, a  Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth 2014. At this point I have had it 6 years.  Its gone thru its fair shares of…

Fixing the Well

December 1, 2020

Fixing the Well My mom has this little wooden whishing well out in front of her house. Over the years it fell apart, so I…

Water-Mister

November 25, 2020

Water-Mister I drink a lot of sparking water. It was getting very expensive.  So to that end... I bought this beet up BrewMister off Facebook…

Mom’s Kitchen

October 1, 2019

Kitchen Redo Sooo....Mom's kitchen was a mess. It looked like this. And hadnt been touched in 50 years. My brother and I decided she needed…

Basement Stairs

July 27, 2019

Basement Stairs So these are my parents basement stairs. They are just brick. The treads are barely 6" wide. The height is all over the…

Chicken Coop

July 14, 2019

Chicken Coop My dad bought a chicken coop. Some of it got damaged in the move. So we put it together best we could. (click…

Attic Hoist

July 7, 2019

Attic Hoist The stairs in the garage are some old rickety wood stairs. They are 10 ft and don't reach the floor from the 12…

Samba Not taking windows password

March 16, 2019

How to fix Samba not accepting windows password My samba server would just keep prompting me over and over for a password. Here is how…

LetsEncrypt SSL Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

January 21, 2019

LetsEncrypt SSL Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I pieced the following together from various sites to get Lets Encrypt to work on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   1)…

Veeam Free Backup Schedule Script

March 14, 2018

Bellow is a script to get Free Veeam Backup and replication to schedule a VeamZip backup. # Author: Vladimir Eremin # Created Date: 3/24/2015 #…

HyperV2016 Remote Connect -Manager -RDP

February 28, 2018

Manage Hyper-V Server 2016 in a workgroup using Windows 10 Hyper-V Manager Here is an end-to-end guide for using Windows 10 Hyper-V Manager to manage…

KIA Power Outlet Added

June 16, 2014

I bought a 2013 Kia Soul base model. It only had one power outlet in the front. I added a second power outlet to the…

Apache / Owncloud on NSS Volume

July 12, 2013

Ok wasnt easy, but I got it working. LOOOONG story kinda short....   As you probably know the problem was that Linux has its set…

Unlock/Lock all sheets Excel

November 27, 2012

Unprotect all Worksheets Open a workbook and start the Visual Basic Editor (Alt + F11). Right Click in the project explorer window and select Insert…

First I had to gather all the peices

Floating Book Shelf

July 3, 2012

My oldest daughter needed some more room for books. She wanted a floating book shelf. So I made one.     I got a book…

Installing VirtualBox on Fedora 12

March 30, 2011

1) open up \etc\yum.repos.d 2) make a file called virtualbox.repo 3) paste into it: [virtualbox] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc…

Enable Root login to GUI in Fedora

March 30, 2011

By default Fedora will not let you login to the GUI as root. Now I am sure there are good security reasons for this, but…

My new 15yr old scanner

Scanner

March 28, 2011

Well by Uniden scanner gave out. I started to get nothing but static. I needed to replace it. I went on ebay and took a…

Bond NICs in Linux

February 10, 2011

Step #1: Create a bond0 configuration file Red Hat Linux stores network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory. First, you need to create bond0 config file and…

Speaker Switcher

January 26, 2011

I have a surround system on my PC. I also have projector hooked to it. The PC has a blu-ray drive. The projector projects to…

Bind DNS via Webmin

December 20, 2010

How to setup DNS using Webmin Below are the steps for setting up DNS via webmin... Create a Master Zone Under the "Existing DNS Zones" click…

OpenSSL

December 1, 2010

How to configure OpenSSL on Fedora 14 (assuming you did a yum install openssl) Creating the necessary directories First of all we will create a…

Zen works USB boot

March 21, 2010

How to make a usb boot disk for zen imaging. You need: A)  HP Drive Key Boot Utility (cp006049.exe) from HP. B)  syslinux form http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Download…

VPN

March 21, 2010

POPTOP VPN Server It was hard finding any doco on installing this thing. I finally found an old howto for FC7. From there I was…

Windows Scheduled Scan Making Script

August 12, 2008

This will install a Windows Schedule job on a Windows machine with out any user intervention. It runs as a system task, so no user…

GIM Contacts List via LDIF

August 10, 2008

GIM Contacts List via LDIF Senario #1: Copying UserA list to everyone. You must Export / Import contact attributes via ConsoleOne NDS Import / Export…

ClamWin Sig Updates when Logged Off

August 10, 2008

Now that we have ClamWin scanning while a user is logged off, I found out that the virus sigs do not update while logged off…

Deny Host

August 9, 2008

How to install Deny Hosts on Fedora 8: 1)  yum list denyhosts 2)  yum install packages listed (in this case it was: yum install denyhosts.noarch)…