Using Thunderbird to manage your Google Mail account can work well, but if you truly want to delete email using Thunderbird, make sure you configure it correctly.
Category: Tech
ParseFit: My simple Python tool to parse TCX files from Google Fit
After losing all my workout data when SportyPal disappeared, I wrote a tool in Python to parse TCX files from Google Fit so it doesn’t happen again.
How to configure Kibana behind an nginx proxy
In my previous post about upgrading to Elastic 8, I signed off with the promise of sharing how I put Kibana behind an nginx proxy. Here’s the post on how I did that, and what I did to make it work after a few hours of messing around with various settings. If you want the… Continue reading How to configure Kibana behind an nginx proxy
My almost-effortless upgrade experience (and lessons learned) with Elastic 8
I had a relatively painless upgrade from Elastic 7 to Elastic 8, and your experience can be even better if you keep a few things in mind based on my lessons learned.
PKI Revisited
A little more than two years ago, I set up a PKI and did a post on it. The main goal was to get a certificate on my EdgeOS router to get proper HTTPS support without the annoying red X. When I did it, however, I didn’t do it quite right, and so I decided… Continue reading PKI Revisited
Netflow and Splunk
Yesterday, I told the tale of getting netflow data out of my EdgeOS router. Once I started actually receiving data, I wanted to get it into Splunk. I figured that I would have to set up a directory for netflow log data from nfdump, then set up a reader to have Splunk ingest the data.… Continue reading Netflow and Splunk
EdgeOS and Netflow
Update: Since I wrote this blog post in 2016, I’ve turned off netflow on my router. Why? Because I upgraded to gigabit fiber, and when netflow is enabled, it throttled my speed to 150 Mb/s or so. Not good! Giving up netflow is a small price to pay for full gigabit speeds. If you do… Continue reading EdgeOS and Netflow
EdgeOS and IPv6 Revisited
About a week ago I noticed that my browsing was no longer using IPv6. How, you ask? I use IPvFoo, a Chrome extension that shows you in your address bar whether you are browsing a site using IPv4 or IPv6. True, only Google and Facebook are the sites that I browse regularly that use IPv6,… Continue reading EdgeOS and IPv6 Revisited
Monitoring my UPS with Splunk
Last time, I had set up my UPS monitoring software on my CentOS logging server. But I wanted more: what good is having a UPS if I can’t monitor things like voltage, battery charge, and load on an ongoing basis? Of course, the answer to this is to log to Splunk, which is what I… Continue reading Monitoring my UPS with Splunk
Installing NUT on CentOS
Getting a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) has long been on my tech wish list, so that I could keep my network and logging server up and running during transient power outages. Fortunately, aside from a brief outage right after we bought our house three years ago, power has not been a problem, unlike when I… Continue reading Installing NUT on CentOS