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Introduction In both of our homes I have a Unix server for a variety of uses, but something that has been on interest for awhile was Steam in Home Streaming. In essence it takes the frame buffer of the video card and remotely displays it on any other machine running Steam. The benefit, for me at least, is two-fold. It is cheaper and easier to drop a GPU into the server than it is to upgrade the laptop and it allows for me to have a remote OpenCL machine that I use in my security research. ...

TL;DR - Migrated 11 year old Wordpress blog to Jekyll. Wouldn’t recommend at all to multi-user, beginner, or corporate entities. Was a fun and geeky experiment for a weekend project. Picked up some ruby programming along the way. Introduction It was time. I have been running this blog faithfully on Dreamhost since 2006. It started during a time when I was much younger, and much less wise. I remember battling the desire to go with static HTML pages or to go with one of these new CMS systems I was reading so much about on IRC. Here we are full-circle back on static HTML pages…As with all tech things, it is cyclical for sure. ...

TL;DR Unix geek tries Windows 10 for a year. For the most part it works, but lots of growing pains. Going back to the land of GNU. Introduction A year ago, I started an attempt to give Windows another try. I jump around different platforms to stay current and cognisant of the industry shifts professionally. The need to get back to Windows happen to coincide with need for a new laptop. ...

New laptop purchase seems like a good time to give Microsoft another chance. What happened? I was using a wonderful 4th Generation X1 Carbon that ran Linux like a top. My only issue was that, in taking on a new role, I needed Windows or Mac support with a CUDA capable GPU. Moving to a 15” MacBook Pro wasn’t an option due to the size/weight and my general dismay of the direction of macOS. ...

I use an OpenWRT travel router to deal with public WiFi access security and geolocation concerns. I have written extensively prior and ran into an issue with the latest OpenWRT release. For those struggling with PIA using the luci-app-openvpn please see the below for a working config you can place in /etc/config/openvpn. Grab the new PIA Strong crypto files here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn-strong.zip vi /etc/config/openvpn Paste this block of text and change the hostname as needed config openvpn 'piaEU'                option dev 'tun'                option nobind '1'                option verb '3'                option fast_io '1'                option persist_tun '1'                option persist_key '1'                option client '1'                option proto 'udp'                option tls_client '1'                option remote_cert_tls 'server'                option cipher 'aes-256-cbc'                option auth 'sha256'                option ca '/etc/config/ca.rsa.4096.crt'                option keepalive '10 120'                list remote 'nl.privateinternetaccess.com'                option comp_lzo 'adaptive'                option auth_user_pass '/etc/openvpn/authuser'                option resolv_retry 'infinite'                option reneg_sec '0'                option disable_occ '1'                option enabled '1'                 option crl_verify '/etc/config/crl.rsa.4096.pem'                option port '1197' The port is a biggie. Make sure it is the correct one for the new secure settings! ...