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If you are reading this because you, like me were lost and frustrated… I feel your pain. But let me try and help! A few weeks ago I added a POE HAT to a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and installed FreeBSD to so I could build a remote access server. I also bough another Raspberry Pi […]

Introduction I have a small homelab and I was looking into some sort of KVM console to be able to access them both locally and remotely instead of moving around VGA cables/serial cables. Those are rather expensive so I opted to build my own remote access system. Since all my servers and switch(es) have a […]

Hey Folks, Sorry for not updating more often, but I do not have that much to say. The wiki actually sees more information with me updating that as I go along or discover some small neat things! So please do check out the wiki also! I had page on the wiki about setting up a […]

Today I had to reinstall my gateway/firewall but I no longer had blank CD’s. I usually prefer to use a USB key but the asg-9.x.iso from Sophos has some issues with this. I fixed it in a few minutes by comparing the mounts in a VM when booting from an ISO and the mounts when […]

I bought myself an Acer Aspire V5-571G, to replace my aging netbook. I ended up going for Acer’s low-end ultrabook because it was only around 35 EUR more expensive than a AMD Fusion netbook, it comes with and i3 with IGP and an additional GPU. So bang for buck it was a clear winner. I […]

I was looking for a new headphones/microphone combo. I’ve got a game PC again, so I play at night from time to time and keep my mother awake due to not having a headset. I also needed something for Skype. For my Game PC I could use the on-board analog plugs. But things like watching […]