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  • Proxmox VE and Let’s Encrypt with DNS-01 Validation

    One of the appealing reasons for using Proxmox VE as your hypervisor is that one can configure their system to obtain a TLS certificate for https from Let’s Encrypt on a regular basis. The Environment At the time of writing, I am running Proxmox VE version 7.2-4. The name of the node for this article…

  • can’t change attributes MNT_DEFEXPORTED already set for mount

    When restarting my TrueNAS (CORE) box, I got a few of the following errors for a few of my datasets: Apr 23 02:11:37 truenas 1 2022-04-23T02:11:37.549270+00:00 truenas.local mountd 1176 – – can’t change attributes for /mnt/tank/user/jmtran: MNT_DEFEXPORTED already set for mount 0xfffff8016cc87000 Apr 23 02:11:37 truenas 1 2022-04-23T02:11:37.549276+00:00 truenas.local mountd 1176 – – bad exports…

  • Additional Show Notes for LINUX Unplugged 377

    Episode link: https://linuxunplugged.com/377 During the discussion regarding youtube-dl, pagure was brought up as another self-hosted GitHub-like service. After a few failed DuckDuckGo searches, I found the project on awesome-selfhosted.https://pagure.io/pagure

  • Print photos to DNP DS-RX1HS on Linux

    I have a DNP DS-RX1HS photo printer for the occasional photobooth “gig” and every so often, I would like to print out some photos. When I do print photos, I would have get the image to a laptop and if I picked up the T430, I would have to reboot that into Windows otherwise there’s…

  • Yet another post about setting up alerts

    tl;dr Set up e-mail alerts so that you are alerted to when things (start to) go wrong. This morning, I got an email from my FreeNAS server with the following: New alerts: * Boot Pool Status Is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error.…

  • blog.

    This [blog] has been an idea on the back burner for a very long time. Reasons for this include: What will I use? (WordPress, GitHub Pages, etc.) What will the domain name be? As you can tell, I have decided to use WordPress and this subdomain. Maybe one day I will get creative and flip…

  • Delegate ACME challenges to another nameserver

    I have been using Let’s Encrypt’s DNS-01 challenge to prove that I control DNS for domain names. However, obtaining certificates and renewing them have been a manual process where I added scripts to getssl to tell me the TXT record(s) to add for that domain. I did it this way because I did not like…

  • INSTALL_VERIFICATION_FAILED_ALERT_INFO Error with Office 365 and macOS

    While installing Office 365 (16.25.19051201) for a client (macOS High Sierra 10.13.6), Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) pops up with an error saying “INSTALL_VERIFICATION_FAILED_ALERT_INFO”. Clicking OK would open the browser and it would proceed to download the latest AutoUpdate to install. However, at the end of the install the error comes up again. Repeat until annoyed. While…