Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing well and staying safe! I wanted to document this procedure for clearing out an email box in Zimbra. I recently had to update my Zimbra mail server and I noticed that my admin account was strangely full. Over 200,000 messages in the inbox. Looking at it, they… Continue reading Emptying Zimbra mailbox from the Command Line
Minecraft Server for Ubuntu 20.04.2
Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing well. I am writing this blog entry because I created a Minecraft server for my kids some time ago, but I had a hardware failure in the system and never replaced it. At the time, it was no big deal since the boys decided that they were… Continue reading Minecraft Server for Ubuntu 20.04.2
Installing Ubuntu 20.04.2 on Macbook Pro Mid 2012
Hello everyone. Been a while and I have a new blog entry so that I don’t forget how to do this if I ever have to do it again. I got my girlfriend a new Macbook Pro M1 for Hanukkah and she gave me her old one (It’s a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, or 14,1).… Continue reading Installing Ubuntu 20.04.2 on Macbook Pro Mid 2012
Installing Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu 20.04
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I updated my blog. I hope you all are staying safe and healthy. I decided that I would write a blog about how I built my own video conferencing server during this whole outbreak with COVID and having to social distance and stay home. My family is all… Continue reading Installing Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu 20.04
RetroPie on the Intel NUC Hades Canyon
Hey everyone! Been a while since I wrote a blog and I figured this would be a good one. So, because of the COVID-19, and everyone Social Distancing and schools being closed down. I decided that I was going to do a project. Me and my boys love retro gaming. We have used RetroPie in… Continue reading RetroPie on the Intel NUC Hades Canyon
Manually Migrating VM’s from one KVM host to another
Hello everyone! Been a while since I posted a blog. This one was a doozy. I tried to find this information online and there was a ton to peruse through. Luckily, I was able to peice a few of them together to finally get it working the way I needed for my environment. So, this… Continue reading Manually Migrating VM’s from one KVM host to another
Deploying Ubuntu Core 18 with MAAS 2.5
Forward Ubuntu Core is a snap-only, lightweight version of Ubuntu. The kernel, the root file system, and the snap daemon are all packaged and operated as snaps compared to the traditional layout of a Linux distribution. Ubuntu Core is designed around IoT devices due to its lightweight, transactional updates and security. Deployment usually happens in… Continue reading Deploying Ubuntu Core 18 with MAAS 2.5
Using UFW to secure a server
Hello Everyone! Hope you’re doing well! So for the last few weeks, I have been dealing with a DoS attack happening against me. After spending a couple days with Comcast Network Engineers we finally figured out that my mail server was being attacked. Once we disabled the NIC on the server, Internet service would start… Continue reading Using UFW to secure a server
Setting up Unreal Tournament 2004 Game server on Ubuntu 16.04
Hey everybody. Been a while since I wrote here. Figured I would write up a howto to setting up a Unreal Tournament 2004 server. I really love this game. It brings back tons of memories, playing this when I was in the Navy with my friends on the sub. My boys have some break time… Continue reading Setting up Unreal Tournament 2004 Game server on Ubuntu 16.04
Deploying Whitebox Switch ONIE images with MAAS
Hello, So I spend a lot of time deploying switches in my lab for my job. I also really like Canonical’s tools for managing infrastructure and bare metal servers called MAAS, or Metal-As-A-Service. It can deploy servers better than really any other solution I have used in the past, including Red Hat’s Satellite, Microsoft’s Windows… Continue reading Deploying Whitebox Switch ONIE images with MAAS