Welcome to Melroy’s Blog. Here I share articles about IT, DevOps, software engineering, security, GNU/Linux, technology, AI, (embedded) hardware and anything else computer related.
Recent Posts
Server Hardening
Starship Prompt
GitLab: Pull from remote repo
GitLab is an awesome product. I’m using GitLab Community Edition (FOSS) at home on a daily basis.
However, I needed a specific feature in GitLab called Pull from a remote repository which is officially a premium feature only. Too bad this feature is not free, but I have a solution.
This sync feature allows you to keep for example your forked repository in sync with a remote upstream repository.
Arguments against Bitcoin
New server: Install & configuration of services (Part III)
New server: Setup Linux (Part II)
Happy new year everyone! 😎 Let’s install Ubuntu Server 20.04 as part of the blog series. And continue with setting-up the software part of the server. If you missed Part I, read that first.
New Server: Buy & Assemble (Part I)
My current server is 15 years old, and time for an upgrade! Finally! After all, adding additional memory is not good enough and we hitting the limits of the old hardware. We will replace the whole server from the ground-up.
GPT-3 – We are doomed
I would like to talk about artificial intelligence (AI), GPT-3 to be specific. Has been a while since I posted an article, but I noticed an urge to write about GPT-3 🙂. Without further ado, let’s get into what GPT-3 is. And why this is such an important topic to discuss.
Bests electric cars for your money
Air quality meter
Get the most out of your network
Lately I moved to my new home. My idea was to setup a good stable and high performance LAN network within my home. This project sounds pretty easy at first, but it was harder than I initially suspected it to be.
In this article I talk about my goals for this project. The list of materials to get you started and creating your own network. I will talk about some useful unix tools for network analysis. How-to setup your own NFS (Network File System) server. Last but not least, I will give some Linux network tweaking advise and share my future plans.