OpenWRT on a Linksys E8450 We got a new router and decided to re-flash it with OpenWRT. The openwrt page for the E8450 covers the current support status. We went with the “non-UBI” installation because… The caveat is that this change is essentially permanent so once you have OpenWRT, I hope you like it (I’m sure you will ;-). The [official page](Since 2021-08-27, it is no longer possible to keep the default vendor flash layout (a.

Linux Installers and Serial Connections This is an update of a previous post where I argued for the importance of being able to control virtual machines using serial lines as an out-of-band tool. I still think that this is an important thing to do and this post gathers some updated examples. UEFI Boot and Mirrored Disks - almalinux This example is a test-bed for a physical (non-VM) install I needed to do on a system which uses UEFI and where we wanted RAID1 support.

Hippo Toes This is a follow-up to my earlier post on running gitlab-ce on a qnap NAS using nginx and letsencrypt. The basic ideas are discussed in that post. This post achieves the same result but via docker compose. The resulting docker-compose file is available in this repository. docker-compose We will use version 3 of docker-compose. I’m not a docker-compose expert, and I’m quite lazy so there are probably better ways of doing this (e.