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All the Ways VirtualBox Remote Access Fails 🙂

Why? So, over the past few years, I have moved my Home Lab from ESXi & Proxmox to Kubernetes on Linux and finally to Docker on Linux. I have very little need for virtual machines these days, except to try out cool distros (like Garuda) or desktop environments (like Budgie)

KVM VMs & Networking Quickstart

KVM VMs & Networking Quickstart Why? Well, the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, and subsequent packaging and pricing changes, have caused customers to look for options. To be the most help to my customers, I have been getting my hands on as many "VMware Alternatives" as possible - Nutanix,

Building an (Evil) Android Phone Bot Army

Building an (Evil) Android Phone Bot Army Why? So, like you, I have a bunch of old, mostly-working phones. These are small, capable, computers that could be doing something - something good or evil 🙂. What if I could somehow build them into a parallel compute cluster to break up large

VMware Monitoring on Apple/Android Smart Watch

VMware Monitoring on Apple/Android Smart Watch Why A few years ago, I was very active in the Android Watch Community including designing custom watch faces with programmatic actions. I eventually moved back to actual watches where I did not have to worry about battery life. Recently, I have been

Apple Mac Backup with Rsync and Postfix

Apple Mac Backup with Rsync and Postfix Why Well, I have been happily using BackBlaze to protect all laptops in our family for years. This week, Information Security at my company decided that cloud backup is a risk as I might be sending corporate secrets somewhere and blocked BackBlaze on

ZoneMinder RTSP Motion Detection Fast Start

ZoneMinder RTSP Motion Detection Fast start to getting RTSP IP camera motion detection up and running Why I cannot see the driveway from my home office and would like to know when a car or delivery truck has arrived. The motion detection built into my Foscam IP camera pointed at

"Cuckoo's Egg"-Style Server Tripwire Instructions

“Cuckoo’s Egg”-Style Server Tripwire TL;DR: auditctl + syslog-ng 🤓 Why Like many of you, I have a few services running on home servers. I protect our home network with a firewall, but wanted notice in case anyone found their way past the firewall. Plus, I love the book “The