Setting up rdiff-backup on FreeBSD 12.1

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

My main PC workstation (as opposed to my Mac Pro) is a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine. While backing up the Windows portion is relatively easy via some cheap-ish commercial backup software, I ended up backing up my Linux home directories only very occasionally. Clearly, Something Had To Be Done ™. I had a look […]

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Building an OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server part 3 – Unbound DNS filtering

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

In part 2, I reconfigured my WireGuard VPN to use an Unbound DNS server on the VPN server rather than rely on a third party server I had used for the original quick and dirty configuration. It was important for me to set up a validating DNS server, which I did in that part. In […]

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Building an OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server part 3 – Unbound DNS filtering

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

In part 2, I reconfigured my WireGuard VPN to use an Unbound DNS server on the VPN server rather than rely on a third party server I had used for the original quick and dirty configuration. It was important for me to set up a validating DNS server, which I did in that part. In […]

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Building an OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server part 2 – Unbound DNS setup

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

In the first part, I described how I set up the basic OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server. I also hinted that I wanted to set up my own validating, filtering DNS server. With a little bit of spare time during the holidays I decided now was a good time as any. Making sure the VPN server […]

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Building an OpenBSD Wireguard server

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

In my previous post, I mentioned that I somehow ended up with a corrupted filesystem on the WireGuard server I had set up earlier this year. That iteration of my VPN server was built on Linux as I expected I would get better performance using the kernel-based WireGuard implementation. It had taken me a while […]

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Looks like I get to redo my WireGuard VPN server

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

I’ve blogged about setting up a WireGuard VPN server earlier this year. It’s been running well since, but I needed to take care of some overdue maintenance tasks. Trying to log into the server this morning and I am greeted with “no route to host”. Eh? A quick check on my Vultr UI showed that […]

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Installing leiningen on Manjaro Linux

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

I like Lispy languages. One I’ve been playing with – and occasionally been using for smaller projects – is Clojure. Clojure projects usually use Leiningen for their build system. There are generally two ways to install leiningen – just download the script as per the Leiningen web site, or use the OS package manager. I […]

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How to speed up macOS Time Machine backups

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

macOS Time Machine is usually set up to work in the background and not overly affect anything that’s going on in the foreground while the user is working. Under normal circumstances, this is desirable behaviour. It is not desirable when you try to take one last backup of a failing SSD before it keels over […]

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Setting up my own VPN server on Vultr with Centos 7 and WireGuard

Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

As an IT consultant, I travel a lot. I mean, a lot. Part of the pleasure is having to deal with day-to-day online life on open, potentially free-for-all hotel and conference WiFi. In other words, the type of networks you really want to do your online banking, ecommerce and other potentially sensitive operations on. After […]

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Installing specific major Java JDK versions on OS X via Homebrew

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In an earlier post, I described how to install the latest version of the Oracle Java JDK using homebrew. What hadn’t been completely obvious to me when I wrote the original blog post is that the ‘java’ cask will install the latest major version of the JDK. As a result, when I upgraded my JDK […]

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