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There is a big push these days for RCS messaging on Android. RCS is Google's answer to iMessage. RCS has a lot of nice features and one major drawback. The major drawback is there are no open [...]

Zabbix template created for an HP Color Lasterjet Printer. Links to: Generic by SNMP ICMP Ping Generic by SNMP Items: [...]

Currently running within my home systems is a Zabbix instance for network monitoring/alerting and a Unifi Protect camera system. Zabbix will happily send emails when an event occurs as will Unifi [...]

UPDATE 2: Looks like the load on the hardware was corrupt somehow. A clean install and rebuild from scratch of the config was done and the machine has been stable for a full week. A diff on the [...]

I am in the process of looking for very small form factor devices to run standard Linux on. By standard I mean not Arm. Nothing against Arm, but that is a special world. The goal was small, PoE [...]

I keep things pretty basic with regards to IRC. Makes is silly esy to replicate on any machine. Weechat server: [...]

I recently got a new laptop. The HP Dragonfly G4 Elite. This unit comes with an Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 wireless card. Full support for 6E, meaning 6 GHz channels. The home network also supports 6E so [...]

After poking at the HP/Aruba AP555 I have transitioned to a pair of Engenius EWS377AP access points. Initial setup was using the ezMaster controller. This worked really well but presented a few cons [...]

Recently I upgraded my home AP. The AP is an Aruba AP555 and has worked really well so far. After the upgrade things went haywire. A large amount of digging and searching finally led to the cause [...]