Resize a FreeBSD UFS Boot Drive
Resizing the boot drive on a FreeBSD server can seem a little daunting since that if the drive that FreeBSD is running on. This post will show that it is not that hard, if your FreeBSD server is a guest […]
VMware: Enable Change Block Tracking (CBT)
Change block tracking allow tools to track what blocks in a virtual drive have changed over a period of time. This is very useful for backup software as it is able to backup just the delta changes instead of the […]
Creating an Astra Child Theme
Why should I create a child theme? A child theme is a theme that is linked back to an original theme. This allows you to make changes to the theme and it’s files (in the child) and your changes will […]
Remove Category Description text in Astra theme
I am using the Astra theme on one of my WordPress sites. It is a great theme that allows you too customize a lot but I did run into one issue. I really didn’t want the category descriptions to show […]
Moving WordPress’ wp-cron to crontab
When I first started using WordPress I found it quite slow and I started to look into how to speed it up. What I found is that WordPress does a lot of house keeping every time a page is displayed. […]
Anonymous Access in Grafana (Hass.io)
Grafana is an excellent program to create very cool graphs and charts from your Home Assistant sensor data. If you are using Grafana and want to embed graphs into your Home Assistant dahboards, then you will have […]
Forcing a sensor update in Home Assistant
Home Assistant is event driven. This means that most sensors will not get updated into the database unless the value of the sensor changes. This is not usually a problem since but if you are storing the sensor […]
ZFS Bare Metal Restore
This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.
Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD
If you need to know what ports are open and listening on your FreeBSD servers, you can use a few commands. Netstat -An used to me my goto command for pulling up a list of ports that are listening but […]
Convert Certificates from PFX to PEM
This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.