Continuing my series of blog posts on VPNs, now we’re going to be installing the ZeroTier self hosted controller! Again we’ll be installing it on Debian 11, but the instructions should work for Debian 12 as well. ZeroTier is a (VPN) and software-defined networking (SDN) platform in one that enables connectivity between devices and networks ..read more

So a bit over a week after I couldn’t sleep, tossing and turning in bed when I first came up with the idea of ZeroTier-Console, the first release is ready for some field trials! When I first started looking into this, I couldn’t believe there wasn’t already a simple to use management application for the ..read more

Recorded a quick video of me using and then breaking ZeroTier-Console. Any suggestions / feedback welcome! Though I’m aware that there are some misspellings in there at the moment lol Related PostsHow To : Email Yourself Your IP Address Each Time It Changes How To : PXE Boot SystemRescueCD How To : Stream Your Webcam ..read more

As an update to my old post – https://sirlagz.net/2016/01/20/live-resizing-lvm-on-linux/ – since utilites mature and change, tasks can get easier (or harder) as there are more commands and functionalities added. In this instance, parted and lvm have been updated to make this a bit easier. Step 1 – Resizing Hard Drive This step remains the same ..read more

I was going to write up a blog post about setting up a self-hosted Zerotier server when I came to the realisation that there wasn’t really any good management tools for the CLI for ZeroTier. The “Getting Started” guide from ZeroTier is pretty sparse on explanations on what things do, with some curl commands thrown ..read more

It’s been a while since my last post! I recently had to recover a dying USB stick that kept spitting out read errors. ddrescue‘s default parameters could only help so much as the flash controller would hang the instant it hit a bad read error, necessitating a unplug and replug of the USB stick before ..read more