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How I used GLPI to find which PCs could move to Windows 11: by checking the processor generation
Nothing fancy was needed: GLPI's inventory, the processor generation (8th and up) and, where necessary, a couple of BIOS settings.
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How I'd monitor a Proxmox cluster with Checkmk (and why I'd run Pulse next to it)
Checkmk for alerts and history, Pulse for an at-a-glance view: a read-only user, the agent for Ceph, VMs via piggyback and the usual traps.
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I built an iPad journal that feels like a real notebook (and saves to my Raspberry Pi)
A Moleskine-style web app for writing with the Apple Pencil or keyboard: pressure-sensitive ink, 3D page turns and a copy of every page on the Pi, no App Store.
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I installed PegaProx in an LXC container to manage my Proxmox (and what it taught me on day one)
PegaProx, the free Proxmox management panel, set up in an LXC from its APT repo: the steps, the DNS issue that blocked the connection and whether it pays off on one node.
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php2shell: the two critical PHP vulnerabilities and what to do on your servers today
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 allow unauthenticated code execution. How to tell if you're affected, patch properly, mitigate if you can't, and watch.
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How I'd simulate a domain controller failure (and time how long it takes to come back)
An Active Directory continuity test step by step: what to check first, how to take a DC down safely, a script to time the outage and what to write down.
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I turned my laptop into a Proxmox server for my sysadmin course lab
From a CachyOS desktop to Proxmox VE on a laptop with a single NIC: the lid, the disks, a lab OPNsense and the VMs I use for my sysadmin course.
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My weather station has no local API, so I pull it from Weather Underground
A 7-in-1 AliExpress weather station that opens no ports: how I read its data from a Pi with the Weather Underground API and feed it to n8n and Home Assistant.
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Proxmox VE guide, from zero to backups
5 parts: install, first settings, virtual machines, LXC containers and backups. Finish them all to unlock the “Marathon” achievement.
Start with part 1