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QEMU Guest Agent on pfSense

A piece of software I always found fascinating about hypervisors was the concept of a guest agent. The first example I recall was file sharing from a VMWare Host to Guest on Workstation which see...

Taking advantage of free S3 compatible storage on a £0.30 VPS

This post is not meant to be used in a production workflow. I just wanted to show how you can host some data for practically free while being under your OWN terms I have a problem with renting...

Securing SSH with a Jump Host and Wireguard

*Disclaimer: At the time of writing this, Wireguard is not in stable repositories of some distribution. * **Secure Shell (SSH) **is a useful utility which allows administrators to remotely contr...

pfSense Routing with SR-IOV and Proxmox

Introduction Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a technology that was developed in order to split up physical PCI devices into multiple separate PCI devices. In a virtualization stack, it ...

JTAG Hacking a Xbox 360 in 2021

The Xbox 360 is a pretty important console to me. I only started playing around late 2011, but it still provided countless hours of entertainment and the idea of a modding the console really appeal...

Managing edge nodes with Docker and GitLab

This post is a continuation of my previous post, “Deploying a ‘CDN’ with GeoDNS”. Reviewing this in 2023 - This is when I knew little about containers. Consider this a ‘test poc’ ;) One of the ma...

Deploying a "CDN" with GeoDNS

Introduction When wondering how to pass the time I decided to optimise my website. I took initial steps such as minimising CSS and JS however incase you haven’t seen, my (old) base site actually i...