David Foley's Blog

There is no simple toggle to disable private one to one chat in the Odoo Discuss module.

In an INCUS container on a KVM guest, ping commands are successful when executed on the container, but not when the are executed from the host on the other end.

A two month trip to Europe and the USA along with endless work on migration of existing services and applications to the new infrastructure has lead to their being very little headline news concerning the development of the public offering.

When storing an SSH private key in GitLab CICD variables I encountered a strange error: "Unable to create masked variable because: The value cannot contain the following characters: whitespace characters."

It's been a busy 8 weeks at Equinix in Melbourne and now the servers are finally online and running customer applications.

Since 2018 I have been offering private cloud infrastructure to businesses around the globe.

Since version 7, Mikrotik Router OS supports the WireGuard VPN.

You are running some LXC containers on a host and you use Firewalld to forward ports from the public internet to the containers.

I recently encountered a Laravel 'constraint violation' error related to JSON field.

When setting up an additional IPv4 subnet on a dedicated Hetzner server I learned that Firewalld is terrible at handling IP forwarding.

A box of electronics arrived the other day, amongst the components was a DFRobot FireBeetle v2 board (DFR0654).

While flashing a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) from a Raspberry Pi 3 I got the error "No drive to deploy", there's a relatively simple fix if hard to find on the internet.

I recently noticed a drive in my home NAS was pre-fail according to S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics, when I replaced the drive I found it difficult to mount the remaining drives in the LVM VG to recover data.

I recently encountered an error on a database server when using dnf (yum) on CentOS 8 Stream.

This week I encountered the most bizzare support request: "Is it possible that our website would not load on iPhones?".

Today I submitted a role to Ansible Galaxy "initialises MySQL/Percona/MariaDB Server software on a host".

Over the past few weeks I have been working to get this personal website and blog "on the indieweb" and in large part I have succeeded.

Welcome all.