Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt Everything! I've been looking into migrating to Let's Encrypt for a while now, but due to my server setup for some reason the webroot method just wasn't working for me (and is ugly in
iDRAC Using a Let's Encrypt Certificate on iDRAC (WIP) Trust is important for a CA, and a CA that makes a mistake should be permanently untrusted. That should have been the case for StartCom, but the Mozilla Foundation was too lenient. Anyways,
SoftEther VPN on Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu 16.04 I don't like OpenVPN. With that out of the way, SoftEther VPN supports a lot more protocols (including SSTP) and is made in Japan, so I decided to go with it. Unfortunately it
Amazon Dash Controlled Motion Sensing Camera (Part 0) To cut costs in my motion sensing camera project, I opted to use the built-in LEDs of the Raspberry Pi as status indicators. One problem with the RPi 3 is that the power
Amazon Dash Controlled Motion Sensing Camera (Part 2) My Raspberry Pi camera finally arrived, so I can finally start setting up the camera. First, we need to enable it. $> sudo nano /boot/config.txt start_x=1 gpu_mem=128
Amazon Dash Controlled Motion Sensing Camera (Part 1) Recently a suspicious person showed up at my apartment. He was ringing every door to check which apartment was empty. He proceeded to pretend to be selling newspaper subscriptions when I answered the
Ubuntu Authentication with Active Directory, This Time with Kerberos Following my previous blog I looked for solutions for the outstanding issues I was having. As it turns out, AD does come with Kerberos. What's more, it is enabled by default and automagically
Ubuntu Authentication with Active Directory without Kerberos I recently got a Raspberry Pi 3 on which I installed Ubuntu Server 16.04. I decided for science that I wanted to enable my AD users to authenticate to the RPi. Most
The Microsoft Band Might be Dead, But I Haven't Given Up It is unfortunate that the Band is in an ambiguous state right now, with rumors that it is being completely abandoned and the SDK being taken down. But to my pleasant surprise today
Revised RADIUS Dynamic IP Update Script Previously I posted a script I used to update my RADIUS server IP (dynamic) on my RADIUS client whenever the IP changes. It was working well until about an hour ago, when apparently
radius RADIUS Client Configuration on a Dynamic IP In a previous post I mentioned that my router's RADIUS client only takes an IPv4 address for the RADIUS server field and that I was using a dynamic IP. The solution I proposed
radius Goodbye IronWifi, Hello JumpCloud...Not A few months back, I wrote about using IronWifi for WPA2 Enterprise authentication. The problem I was trying to solve back then was not being able to perform RADIUS authentication from an external
node.js Adding Google Login Support to Wekan Or, My First Experience Forking a Repo I love Kanban tools, they are so simple yet so useful. Up until now I was typically using Trello, but for two main reasons I am moving on to the open source alternative
Disabling Dropbox AutoPlay for Good(?) on Windows I plug my phone in, and Dropbox's Camera Upload annoyance pops up. And it is an annoyance because since I use a Windows Phone, all my photos are already automatically uploaded to OneDrive
Lazy Syntax Highlighting for Ghost with Microlight.js Since this blog is usually about tech and stuff, some of the posts contain code. When I see code it bothers me that it's not syntax highlighted, for improved readability. So as it
Revisiting my CloudFlare PowerShell Script I recently experienced a downtime of about 12 hours, which I initially thought was due to power failure, but there had been no outage in my area (except a day before, which may
RSS Revisiting Microsoft Band Web Tiles In an alternate universe where I didn't accidentally nuke my blog's database, I once took a look at the Microsoft Band Web Tiles and made a Feed tile for my UptimeRobot account to
node.js And This is Probably Why People Complain About Node.Js Lately I read a bunch of blog posts about people moving away from Node.js towards Ruby, Python or Go for web development. Personally, I still use Node.js for a bunch of
Vagrant Hyper-V Symlink Woes I created a website for non-profit Matsuri Japon, and recently I made the decision to start recruiting/training volunteers for the website development. Therefore the next logical step for me was to setup
VPN How Trying to Get IPv6 Working on My VPN Ended with Me Getting a /48 I had my VPN working for a while when one day I noticed that I didn't have any connectivity over IPv6 despite being sure I had configured the prefix properly in RRAS. I
radius WPA2 Enterprise Authentication using IronWifi When I was setting up a secondary network far from home, I quickly realized that I could not authenticate to Active Directory using IPv4 due to my AD server being behind a NAT
History is much like an endless waltz; the three beats of war, peace, and revolution continue on forever (Gundam Wing) Roughly a month or so ago I ran an update on my system and upgraded PostgreSQL. One thing I absolutely hate about PostgreSQL is that sometimes upgrades are not fully automatic. I like
