I added a RLY-8 to my home lab. It has 8 controllable relays and can be talked to via network.

These are my notes on initial bringup.

As per Ubiquiti’s support article EdgeRouter - Add Debian Packages to EdgeOS, I enabled some apt sources on my EdgeRouter 6P.

I had a bit of trouble adding an ssh key to my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 6P. I kept getting

Not a valid key file format (see man sshd) at /opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-load-user-key.pl line 96, <$in> line 1.

Turned out that the key needs to:

• have a comment
• not have any spaces in the comment
• be on a line of it’s own in the imported file (e.g. do not add a newline at the end)

for loadkey to accept it.

It’s been about 2½ months since I started adding ODROID-HC2 nodes to my Ceph Luminous cluster.

This is a quick update on how it’s doing so far.

Just the steps needed to grow a cached LV.

I was gifted a SoftIron OverDrive 1000, an ARMv8 Opteron Seattle based machine.

This post is my braindump. Expect it to change until I remove ‘WIP: ’ from the title.

Added this to my server:

• Supermicro 2-Port NVme HBA AOC-SLG3-2M2-O
• 1000GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 32Gb/s 3D-NAND TLC Toggle

My braindump follows.

Since the new server is to be a hypervisor, there are configuration steps to be done.

My braindump follows.

My significant other and I got ourselves a new home server.

Even if, like me, you do not want to install Google Play on your Jolla; you can still use Öffi.

1. Install Android support via Jolla store.

2. Grab the file for a custom Android without com.google.android.maps library (aosp) from Öffi’s download page.

3. Install it

On customer site, I am quite often forced to use a Windows machine to access the Linux boxes I work on. This means I will not have an ssh-agent (nor a gpg-agent) running on the machine I’m sitting at (the Win box) and the Linux boxes I access via putty tend to have shared home directories.

Long story short, I need one agent per Linux box taking into account that I may have more than one login shell to the Linux box (i.e. multiple putty windows) and config files including the hostname.