I Made it !!
One whole year in Linux ( on my main PC at home that is ) , no Dual-Booting, no VM’s, Just pure Linux for a whole year. If you look back at Episode 002 through to Episode 005 [ Part 2 ] where my journey began. I can tell you it has been one hell of a ride.
I will mention, I made a deal with myself when committing to ditch windows that i would stick to a distro and learn it, and I am yet to shift from Linux Mint , I have however rode, the upgrade train from 19 up to 19.1 and then 19.2 (eagerly awaiting 19.3 due soon)
So this post isn’t like my others, it’s not related to Linux, Gaming or Laptops. I had a bit of a WTF moment when it came to telephone scams.
I had a call from a ‘private number’ they claimed to be my mobile provider. Alarm bell number 1 🔔. They said that there has been an attempt of upgrades on my account with telephone ending in *64 ( which it does ). OK I thought, could be legit, let’s hear him out. He waffles on for a bit about what phone that is being upgraded etc. To which I politely ask, “is there a number I can call you back on as it’s showing private number”. Hesitant, but the chap on the phone obliged , says , “yea that’s not a problem, these internet phones display private numbers sometimes”.
One day I was looking at my computer and desk thinking, I have had this flimsy desk from Argos, When I bought it back in 2015 odd, it was only £40-45 and it is literally 5 pieces of chipboard with a ultra thin wood effect (not sure if real) veneer.
It has done well over the years, but I’m in the process of saving for a house and it got me thinking about what my study/office/place I can have my computer would look like, I don’t really want to take this bit of chip board with me, and need something a bit more sturdy.
You probably aren’t aware but this blog, like my old one runs on Google cloud platform, on the free tier micro instances which has 1 shared vcore and 512mb memory.
They have 20Gb disks, 5Gb snapshots on a schedule. Pretty handy for a free VPS*.
*It now costs only a few pennies a month due to the change in IP addressing and tax.
Not going to going to go into how I set it up here but , my Wordpress I pretty much followed CTT’s guide on free website on CGP. There were some things had to tweak and change and I do have some notes, if you’re interested @me and I can do a write up.
I have been a Linux user for a little over 2 years for my personal computing, During my time with Linux i have noticed something, we love the command line, but why?
I spent 20 years using Windows (I still use today for work as a lot of us do) and out of all that time, the only time that stands out when I used the command line in Windows was to ping an IP or google.com to test/diagnose network issues. In Linux I use it all the time, and i don’t even second guess it.
About this series..
In this series I plan to walk you through setting up a server/s using easy to follow step by step guides. This series is for every level of user.
I will pre-face this with I am not an expert and these guides have formed from my experience setting up servers/containers, all the hiccups I faced I will try to guide you through these and where to look for extra help.
Hello 👋
It has been years since I have wrote my last post about why we love and hate the CLI (EPISODE 014 - CL… WHY?) And I would like to get back in to posting on a regular basis.
I have changed role from a Infrastructre project engineer to a Linux Engineer, and I am getting to play with loads of new technologies so I would like to share some stuff I have learned and Issues I have come accross in the hope it will help someone else.
The Goal
I have been looking to automate posting to twitter about my new blog posts, and I have been looking at the Ghost intergrations.
The goal is simple:
- Create a new post on any of my blogs
- Publish It
- Post to Twitter that I have a new post along with the Title and URL.
Zappier looked to be the way to go, but I thought, I have a IFTTT Pro account that I pay like $2 for per month so why not use that.
Im going to start by saying Ghost as a platform has been great in many ways. Its been easy to use, navigate and is full of cool features. With the release of Ghost 5.0 last year I have reluctantly updated from the 4.X versions. A bit of back story, I run this site on a very small cloud vm andI use docker and docker compose to run it. With 4.X my compose file looks something like this:
Background
So I have been running 4 Raspberry Pi 3B as docker hosts for my infrastructure for a few years, they run my internal DNS ( PiHole ) , And other services that I use like VPN.
I wanted to have all the docker volumes on an NFS and then get the hosts to use that as a mounted file system. This way I could move containers to different hosts and they could just pick up from where they left off as the data is in all one place.