Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

In July, some friends and I went on an 8,000-mile overlanding trip to Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and South Dakota. One of the first stops...

Backing Up WSL Images

Microsoft's WSL is interesting. I'd go as far as to say that I like it. The mistake here would be to forget that your...

Updating PHP 5.6w to 7.1u on CentOS 6.10

This is mostly just a note to self. As I mentioned previously (probably more than once), I very much dislike systemd and will stick...

Sun Juan Mountains, Colorado

In July, some friends and I went on an 8,000-mile overlanding trip to Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and South Dakota. One of the first stops...

Basic Data Recovery in Linux

Have you noticed how the letters "e" and "r" are neighbors on your keyboard? And an unrelated question: do you know the difference between...

Dealing with GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop is one of those terrible applications that I still have to use occasionally, much to my regret. I can't tell you if...

Verifying SNMP Connectivity on Multiple Hosts

I needed to check if SNMP was accessible on whatever live servers that existed in a particular subnet. Here's a quick script to do...

Bulk-Adding IPTables Rules

I've been using my mod of this handy script to block countries with iptables. One issue with the script is that it is adding...

Late Night Rant: Trump, Bolton, Iran, Saudis

Usually I try to keep politics out of my blog, but this time I just can't resist. A few days after Trump fires Bolton...