Calvin Bui

POST UP TO DATE 19/08/2015 Ubiquiti UniFi is properly supported on Ubuntu and Debian, breaking away from being Windows only.

In the monthly update, I bring you what I've been doing throughout the past month in regards to technology, computers and more with links to…

I'm migrating from Ubuntu to CentOS as my main Linux distro.

I love nginx.

I don't like this year's default theme.

Now that 2014 is almost over and its time to wrap up the year, there are a few plans I have in mind for the year ahead.

In the monthly update, I bring you what I've been doing throughout the past month in regards to technology, computers and more with links to…

napp-it overs a variety of extensions to make use of your ZFS filesystem a lot easier.

Why send data over plain text when you can encrypt it as well!

I expose a few of my web services over the Internet like SABnzbd, CouchPotato and NZBDrone (now known as Sonarr).

It's a common misconception that difficult passwords (e.g.

In the fortnightly update, I bring you what I've been doing throughout the past two weeks in regards to technology, computers and more with…

NZBmegasearcH is a great program.

WiFi is so important in the household with the emergence of portable devices.

In the weekly update, I bring you what I've been doing throughout Monday to Sunday in regards to technology, computers and more with links…

It's been almost 5 days now and the SSL certificate from CloudFlare still hasn't come through.

pfSense, the great software that it already is, can get even better with 'packages' (plugin, extension etc. whatever you want to call it…

Some stuff might break...

In the weekly update, I bring you what I’ve been doing throughout Monday to Sunday in regards to technology, computers and more with links…

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for time and date synchronisation between computers.

In the weekly update, I bring you what I’ve been doing throughout Monday to Sunday in regards to technology, computers and more with links…

A Captive Portal is a special webpage users see before using the Internet.

VLANs are a great way to separate components of your network and to protect important infrastructure from being messed around by others.

My current set-up has pfSense vitualised on an all-in-one ESXi host providing networking to my entire infrastructure.

I like quiet (slow) fans.

In the weekly update, I bring you what I’ve been doing throughout Monday to Sunday in regards to technology, computers and more with links…

Running HTTPS on NGINX is easy.

RAID 10 is great as a highly reliable storage array for your personal files.

Web servers are configured to run on port 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). pfSense, as a firewall, blocks all incoming connections to your network…

In the weekly update, I bring you what I’ve been doing throughout Monday to Sunday in regards to technology, computers and more with links…

A lot of (the good ones at least) hardware and software give you the ability to send notifications via email when scheduled too or a warning…

A very quick how-to guide on installing NGINX, MySQL and PHP, otherwise known as a LEMP stack on CentOS 7 (and usable on Red Hat 7 as well…

In the weekly update, I bring you what I've been doing throughout Monday to Sunday in regards to technology, computers and more with links…

In Part 3 of my virtualised pfSense installation on ESXi 5.5 we will be configurating the WAN (Internet) interface and finalise our…

Now that our pfSense installation is set up and working, we will have to wrap up our installation with a few necessities such as VMware…

In Part 2 of my virtualised pfSense installation on ESXi 5.5 we will be specifying the network interfaces for pfSense, configuring the LAN…

pfSense is an open source firewall/router based on FreeBSD.

Since the start of the year I've been working as a Technical Consultant at IBM.

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