lw-homelab-01 step 0

Machines are at home. You won't get some unboxing nor video about these. There are more than enough tutorials on the internet if you need to learn about how to change/add RAM dimms to a PC.
While I'm at it, here begin problems. 2×4GB setup is OK. 1×8 and 2×8GB setups don't post/boot. I've taken a look at BIOS changelog, nothing about RAM compatibility…does not work with latest BIOS applied either. Oh well. I’ll get rid of these PNY DIMMS and get some others later.
I’ve decided to overhaul my usual set of programs. Exit good old Screen, welcome Zellij ! Yes, GNU Screen works perfectly well. I’m just challenging my habits not to get (too) lazy. I’ve never fully dived into VS Code mastery, as I’m not that much into dev. I’ve read about Helix and decided to take a dive. It’s infinitely more lightweight than VS Code. A bit less powerful (I can’t yet get ansible-language-server to help with autocompletion as I type, for example), but I love being able to do everything without leaving the keyboard. I’m about to use gitui too, once I get my current project in an acceptable form enough to get its first commit.
Current project ? Isn’t it the homelab deployment & automation ? Well. Yes. But my new dev env is part of it. So I’m ansible-ing that env deployment and configuration. That’s step 0. Next step is gateway/firewall/Tinkerbell configuration. I'm wondering about making this setup IPv6 only. I've never dived into it, that looks like an opportunity ! If time runs low, I’ll do a classical NAT/PAT IPv4 setup.
That’s it for today.

Tinkerbell

The Zbox nano is still alive. I've installed (manually…the only non-automated thing to be done in this project, minus the configuration of the… configuration manager) a fresh Debian 12.1 AMD64 on it. Wireless network interface is connected to ISP modem/router. Gigabit ethernet network interface is  […]

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Homelab

French content below Yes I’m still alive. Things have changed about almost everything in my life, but that’s not the point of that post. Let’s talk a bit about…hardware. I’ve opened my purse to buy some hardware. I could have tried to virtualize everything on my (once) proud AMD Phenom II X6 1055T  […]

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BIOS, UEFI, and Gigabyte Radeon RX460 Windforce OC 4G

(la version française se trouve plus bas). OK, let’s make it quick: if you own a motherboard with a classic BIOS, beware, your RX4?0 is likely not to work properly. Machine boots fine, but OS freezes at boot, black screen when graphics initialization does start. The card is fine (tested on a newer  […]

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Odroid XU4

(La version française se trouve plus bas) For those (if any) following that overly active blog, you do know I own a Zotac Zbox Nano AD10, acting as a backup for my PostgreSQL instance, for my personal cloud data…sweet little beast. Not the fastest on earth for sure, but it’s fast enough given my not  […]

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A year or so later

(La version française se trouve plus bas) Time to talk a bit about Rust and my pet project. I had the crazy idea to develop a Bash shell kind of clone in Rust to get my feet wet. I’m using Bash daily, and I then thought I was quite skilled with that beast. BIG mistake ! I actually had no real idea  […]

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Some news: Rust

(La version française se trouve plus bas) Time for a new (IT) post here. FinalTerm has been abandoned, and so did my (ridiculously small) involvement. I can develop, but that’s not my main job, so I’m fairly inefficient at it. But I do want to enhance a bit my skills on that point. Since then, I’ve  […]

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Loi sur le renseignement

Entre le patriot act, les allemands qui collaborent (haha) avec les ricains pour nous espionner, notre gouvernement rempli d’incapables, d’incompétents, de menteurs et j’en passe (rayez la mention inutile…ou pas), qui sont complètement déresponsabilisés de leurs conneries, nous voilà dans de beaux  […]

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Se faire tondre…

Prenons l’exemple (réel) d’une veuve retraitée (réelle) en septembre 2014. ~1200€/mois, la somme de la pension de reversion et autres retraites. 0€/mois, le montant des aides (APL…) 650€ d’impôts sur le revenu. (×1.97 par rapport à l’année précédente, en gagnant moins (840€ de moins, à peu près) !)  […]

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SshAdmin is dead ! Long live to FinalTerm !

Yes, SshAdmin is already dead. I’ve stumbled upon the already existing FinalTerm, which looks like really, yes, I do mean really, promising. So I decided to implement ((really) long-term goal) SshAdmin planned features into it (read grouped tabs plus broadcast) as in Terminator. For now, FinalTerm  […]

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SshAdmin is born !

Hi fellow SysAds around there ! Some of you probably know of Chef, Puppet, Ansible…which are great tools but may prove a bit of overkill for a smaller amount of machines (I do have to manage around 30 boxes/vm) and deploying one of these tools would take too much time for the gain thereafter. So I  […]

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Cluster SSH memleak ? doesn’t open a defined list of hosts.

You’ve configured Cluster SSH and defined a nice list of alias so you hit several boxes easily. BUT, when you call a given alias, nothing happens, but cssh eating up all your memory. Solution is really easy: do NOT ever name an alias the same as an existing machine name (your DNS resolve). Say you  […]

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PbN sur la Scenariothèque !

Tout est dans le titre ! Il est simplement question ici de faire un peu de pub pour le wiki Paris by Night, car se contenter de mon blog (à l’audience multi-planétaire, si si) et de google + serait légèrement réducteur de ce qu’est l’internet. D’ailleurs, si des lecteurs veulent en faire mention sur  […]

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Cartes et frises sur le wiki Paris by Night !

Pas mal de nouvelles choses sur le wiki, dont du matériel pour vous situer et qui devrait vous être utile en jeu: La Chronologie des Bourgmestres La Chronologie des Primogènes La Chronologie des Archontes Une description rapide et une carte (à laquelle il reste à ajouter les lieux importants) de  […]

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Présentation du projet Paris by Night

Malgré quelques posts sur g+, je n’ai guère présenté l’idée que je me fais (de la reprise) du projet Paris by Night. Éclaircissons cela ! Le PbN tel qu’écrit, par l’équipe de feu Kaotic, bien qu’incomplet, est une mine d’informations et un terreau riche pour bâtir des centaines d’heures de jeu. Au  […]

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Rolisteam 1.6.0

Billet mis dans la catégorie Jeux de rôle, mais qui pourrait aussi appartenir à la catégorie informatique. Rolisteam, ce fabuleux, voire même fantastique, logiciel libre permettant de faire des parties à distance est récemment sorti en version 1.6.0. Pour fêter cela, j'ai mis à jour les paquets RPM  […]

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