I’ve been a bit preoccupied lately due to the birth of our daughter Sonja. As I’ve written about before, this pregnancy has been up and down, full of surprises. This continued when Sonja came much earlier than we were expecting, at 33½ weeks gestation. The good news is that she’s a fighter and she’s been… Continue reading Sonja
Photos from Camryn and Nathan’s Wedding
Last weekend I was an unofficial photographer for my sister Camryn’s wedding. I am nowhere close to being good enough to be a wedding photographer, and my hat is off to the official photographer (she is at Whispers of Light Photography in case you are looking for a wedding photographer). I’m just an amateur, although… Continue reading Photos from Camryn and Nathan’s Wedding
Installing Google Authenticator on CentOS
After a conversation at work about how easy it is to use Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication, I decided that installing Google Authenticator on my CentOS server would be my next project. After all, I had recently automated download of website log files, and I needed to find the next to-do at home. Installing Google… Continue reading Installing Google Authenticator on CentOS
Log File Automation
When I set up Splunk reporting for my website, it was a purely manual process, and I left for the future the goal of pulling the logs automatically. Since then, that’s exactly what I’ve done, so now it runs completely automatically. Below is how.
From the Valley to the Mountain
The last update from a few weeks ago found Julia in the hospital. She ended up staying for a week for observation. During that time, the doctors closely monitored her blood pressure, fetal heartbeat, and did lab work to see if there was any evidence of preeclampsia or other bad news. Fortunately, Julia’s health was… Continue reading From the Valley to the Mountain
Setting up a PKI
Since setting up my home network, I’ve been playing around with pieces of it. Today, when I was logging into the web interface of my EdgeLite Router, I noticed that dreaded red X through the https in Chrome, because Chrome didn’t trust the default self-signed certificate that came with the router. Why not replace that… Continue reading Setting up a PKI
Windows Woes
I’m not much of a fan of Windows, but a couple of applications that I use a lot (Quicken and Adobe Lightroom, for example) don’t run on Linux. Also, gaming on Windows is still much easier than gaming on Linux. As a result, I use Window 7 Ultimate as my main computer. Yesterday, when I… Continue reading Windows Woes
When Joy Isn’t
It was the doctor visit that Julia and I had both been looking forward to, that 20 week ultrasound that was going to tell us what we were going to have: two boys, two girls, or one of each (the most probable selection and my pick). No sooner had we learned that we were going… Continue reading When Joy Isn’t
Splunk Reporting: Mapping Brute Force Attempts
As part of my home network setup, I talked a bit about how I set up Splunk and used it for metrics on firewall performance. Splunk is an incredibly powerful tool and can be used for much, much more than that. This weekend I pretty easily set up a cool new dashboard to monitor brute-force… Continue reading Splunk Reporting: Mapping Brute Force Attempts
Adventures in Networking: Setting Up a Home Network with EdgeOS
As promised, the summary of everything I’ve done to date. I’m still messing with IPv6, and I found my VLAN settings were all messed up, so expect some more updates on this topic. So far, though, here’s what I have, from start to finish: Adventures in Networking, Part 1: Intro Adventures in Networking, Part 2:… Continue reading Adventures in Networking: Setting Up a Home Network with EdgeOS