Prelim: Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE; or PVE for Short) was original developed to add features such as backups and a web gui for OpenVZ and then KVM based virtual machines. It has now evolved into a commercial product for…
VPN, pfSense
IPSec / IKEv2 VPN for Mobile Clients on pfSense 2.4.x with Let’s Encrypt Public Certificate
Tested with: iOS and MacOS devices, Android 8+ devices, Windows 10 (Built in VPN Client)ENV: pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64) on FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE running on Proxmox VE 6.1-8 as a full VM. 0.5GB RAM, 2 core common kvm64 proc. AES-NI CPU Crypto:…
Windows
Windows 10/11 OS Repair
Edit 2026-01-09: Added Windows 11Window 10/11 Errors including weird boot error codes, start menu not appearing when clicked, crashes when opening windows settings or office / IE / Edge (All the programs that shared code with the OS but really…
CentOS, Plex, Squid
Force Plex Media Server (PMS) to use squid proxy
To be clear, not related to using plex behind a reverse proxy such as nginx. This is related to forcing plex to use a proxy server (such as squid) for its metadata, thumbnail, subtitles, other downloads and plex.tv communications. May…
Info
The Returning Rant
So, third time trying at this shit. Trying a different tach now after the first attempt went sideways and I lost interest in the second attempt after only two posts. Switching to more of a helpful tidbits / short guides…
Squid
Monitor Squid web-cache Hits and Misses Live
Squid Live Monitoring Squid as a program for caching and controlling the flow of data has a series of log files that are updated live as the daemons running processes. This first one is probably the most key /var/log/squid/access.log This…
CentOS, Squid
A Basic Squid web-cache 3.4.8 and Centos 6.6 setup
So as a part of the tutorial section of this blog ill be covering basic setups and minor advanced features of the best (atleast I think best) Linux based programs out there. Mainly from a Centos side (and maybe some…
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Opening Rant
Hello Internet, So for the second time around at writing a blog (No you may not have links to the first time) I am going to limit the authors to myself. Comments will be allowed…after filtering for spam bots and…