The Samsung SLS-BU102 is a 4G LTE network extender. I became responsible for some of these that are used in a business to improve Verizon mobile service. One of them was not working due to a damaged POE injector. The model of the damaged POE injector is no longer manufactured so I couldn’t just purchase… Read More »
I was trying to set up Metasploitable on VirtualBox. Metasploitable comes as a VMDK. VMDK is a virtual machine disk format developed by VMWare that is supposed to be supported by VirtualBox. Unfortunately, my ViirtualBox GUI wasn’t allowing me to choose the VMDK to attach to my VM. The VMDK just wasn’t showing up in… Read More »
I wanted to access the contents of a hard drive containing a logical volume group. This happened to be a drive that I had removed from an Ubuntu Linux system and I needed to grab some files from it. First make sure you have the lvm2 tools. On Ubuntu or other Debians: Make sure you… Read More »
I’m doing this on Ubuntu 20.04 but it should work on any modern-ish Ubuntu or other Debian Linux. In this scenario, you have already installed “default-jdk” or “default-jre” (which is version 11 on Ubuntu 20.04) and have a working Java installation, and now you want to use a different java version (in my case, I… Read More »
Qwiic is SparkFun’s easy-connect ecosystem for I2C devices. I wanted to play with some I2C temperature sensors with a Raspberry Pi so I thought I would give Qwiic a try. The simplest and least expensive way to start with Qwiic on a Raspberry Pi is the Qwiic shim. The Qwiic shim is a small board… Read More »
Here are 5 quick kitchen tips. There is no theme to these, and they are in no particular order. This post contains affiliate links which means that if you buy something after following those links I will receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you) for sending you over. Pastry Blender If you… Read More »
This photo might be all you need. Explanation follows: I was trying to remove a heating element from this water heater. Unfortunately there was some corrosion and the element was stuck. The only tools I had for this were a tubular water heater element wrench to engage the element and a pipe wrench to apply… Read More »
These are the crafted PVP sets from Mists of Pandaria. They are cheap to craft, but the recipes are a pain to get so they can sell for many times the crafting cost on the AH. There is a set for each class (except Demon Hunters which weren’t around during MoP). These TSM groups don’t… Read More »
Zabbix has some instructional materials at Download and install Zabbix for Containers to help you install Zabbix in a Docker container, but I had trouble getting a working system using these materials. While the Zabbix documentation does include everything you need if you already know what you are doing, I don’t have much docker experience… Read More »
I’m starting with a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server installation. This basically follows the official snipe-it installation instructions but with details for installing on Ubuntu. Since we’re starting with a fresh install, make sure everything is up to date: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade Install Apache sudo apt install apache2 -y The -y at the… Read More »