02 Oct 2021
Proxmox Virtual Environment
This post is a little intro to proxmox virtualisation software and why I use it
Proxmox is a set of virtualisation packages based on top of the Debian operating system. It is a virtual machine host that allows you to simply and easily setup and run guest virtual machines and containers with minimal effort and time.
It features a nice full featured web ui, multiple server management ( in the form of a cluster and nodes ) with replication, backup, high availability, ACME and metric server support all built in out of the box!
One of its best features, support for the ZFS file system manager.
And my favourite - Free and open source!
As you can see from this list ( and the long list of nice features I’ve left out ) this is a proper enterprise system, with a simple point and click user interface on top.
Proxmox is rock solid. Built on top of Debian stable, it just goes and goes… I’ve been running it on a recent, but not new Dell desktop for well over a year now - never crashed, never had any major problem with ever. It’s fantastic.
Proxmox was built by the fine folks at proxmox.com The system released under the GPL but backed by the commercial arm of proxmox which sells support and other services. I like this model, as it seems to be one of the best ways to fund an open source project.
On that note, the only thing I’ll complain about is the subscription nag popup upon logging in. It’s not the worst nag popup I’ve ever seen, nowhere near as bad as cookie consent…
The good news - it can be disabled either by purchasing a support contract or following the instructions below.
How to disable proxmox subscription nag dialogue
sed -Ezi.bak "s/(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title: gettext\('No valid sub)/void\(\{ \/\/\1/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service
script shamelessly borrowed from John’s Computer Services
Will have to rerun after updates to pveproxy, will investigate how best to automate that. I guess a cronjob is the best way i can think of right now…
That’s proxmox in a nutshell, give it a try, you wont regret it…
22 Sep 2018
How to get started blogging
So I have been struggling to blog lately as is evident by the lack of posts on this blog.
My biggest problem is picking something to talk about that will be worthy of the audience that (maybe someday) will visit this site.
After putting it off for so long I have realised that this factor is probably irrelevant to the whole premise of blogging. This site is supposed to be a web log, not the edited content of a commercial publication that is trying to sell you something. I chose to host this site on GitHub pages with Jekyll because of its simplicity and ease of use - write something, commit and push - quick and simple. I spend so much time thinking about quality topics and content that i never end up posting anything at all. And no one is even reading these posts - so what am i worried about?
Just write
Yep that’s it.
Just crack out your text editor and put your thoughts on the screen. It is too hard to write for other people it you don’t know who they are, yeah sure if you have graphs of demographics and a tight target audience/niche cut out then you can tailor your writing to them.
But for me I just write for me and that is what I will be doing from now on. I think it is a little therapeutic to just get your thoughts on “paper” but mostly for me this blog will serve as a personal how to and a historical document so i can remember how and what I do.
I can’t claim this as a new original idea as I have defiantly read this on other blogs, but for anybody that may come across this blog - hey it might push you to get out there and have a go.
Make a routine
At least once a week sit down and write something or
Having a routine is important. Once I fall of the wagon I stop completely, so do a little bit lots of times (does that make sense)
Each little side project you do (which I seem to have plenty started…) write a post, even if you cant finish it.
This one is super important form me. I seem to switch contexts far too often so having an online weB LOG of my activity is super use-full.
Do it now
Don’t put it off, you can always go back and edit. Don’t bother censoring or carefully curating.
Just write
Now GO!