It began when I checked my emails and saw a email from TrueNAS it told me that one of my drives had failed and the pool was degraded. When I investigated I saw that the drive only had 13 errors but since I had 6 drives I wasn’t using I decided to swap it out I passed through another 2 drives and began the replacement tool. It took around three hours but went smoothly with the pool up the entire time. ...
For a addition to my cyber security home lab I added a metasploitable VM. I made a VM with weak specs (but it should be fine) and then downloaded, unziped and converted it then just added it to the VM. I made sure to put it in VLAN 30 then booted it launched and I could access the UI. I look forward to practising with this.
I began by looking for a iso file as since the name was OS i presumed it was just that an Operating System but no after some reading I found the install script. I ran it on a ubuntu server VM and it just installed on its own and worked just like that. The UI is using port 80 which I can’t see a way to change so I would prefer if it was a more random port so 80 could be a service you can’t change but it works fine and I look forward to playing around with it.
I began by changing the command to a docker compose it was easy apart from a random *.zim that was at the end. I just skipped over it and presumed it would be fine but there was no url so I thought I needed a zim for it to share so I downloaded all of Wikipedia which took around 1 hour so not to bad but after a restart there was still no page. I returned to that random .zim and after some googling and trial and error I found I needed to add the line “command: ‘.zim’” after that it worked fine and I added ask Ubuntu as well.
I started by spinning up phpmyadmin I didn’t care about the settings as I was only going to use it for a bit. At first i tried moving files 1 by 1 but when that gave error I moved all the files I had in my mount and tried to login it said my login was wrong so I tried my wordpress login which worked. I navigated to the pages table and was horrified to see it only have 4 rows. As a last hope I restored a older copy of the db I had from just after the fail. When I checked this time there were 159 posts and a quick check showed I was all there!!
I began with goal of making a cyber security home lab for learning on my r720. The first part of this was to set up a separate network so I could change settings without taking down my familys internet. So I installed Opnsense on a vm and added two network device my normal bridge(WAN) and a bridge that is bound to nothing(LAN) I booted into the live environment and ran the installer. When it rebooted I checked the assignments and found that the wan and lan were the wrong way round. I changed that and the interface ip and then connected my kali box to the LAN and accessed the interface. ...
This project has been a roll-coaster and one of the hardest things I have attempted my goal when I set out was simple to run local Ollama models on a cheap £60 k80 GPU. My first attempted end very quickly when I found out that the GPU I got was faulty and it spewed out smoke within a second of first boot. After I confirmed the rest of my server was unharmed I got a full refund and purchased another K80. This one did not fail on first boot and so I was able to start setting up my GPU. I spent the next month trying on and off failing every time. ...
Today I decided to label my drives as while I know what they are on a software level I have no record of what slot is what letter and that is not the sort of thing you want to figure out during a drive death. So I began ripping out each drive one by one presuming I will be fine everything is either raidz2 or a 4 way mirror. I had done about 7 when I missclicked onto my truenas vm and saw the web ui was completely frozen at this point I was having a mild heart attack as my only other copy was on onedrive which only contained the most important files. ...
Today I installed nextcloud through docker I’m using the Linux server image and the install was very smooth however when I got to the web UI it was slow and I mean anywhere from 5 seconds to 60 per click! But I continued thinking it was just running a background install and would soon speed up. I added my NAS as external storage which worked fine and then setup the recognize app which is basically facial regognision like your phone does where it groups the same people and lets you name them. ...
Today I moved my last 2 VMs (Kali and Android x86)off my Desktop on to my server it was really simple. I just exported the VMs as raw from Virtual Box then moved them to my server using scp once that was done I created a VM as normal on Proxmox and then deleted the boot drive and added the raw disk I had transferred.