Frank Wayne’s Blog

I’ve had Raspberry Pi SBCs sitting on shelves in my rack for years, plugged into USB hubs for power, and Ethernet for networking. The cable management challenge posed by all these cables only increases with each new Pi. Upgrade Goals Since the availability of the Raspberry Pi 5 stabilized in the first quarter of 2024, …

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Use URL query strings to download Splunk packages, just like we used to do.

Zabbix Server queries DNS like crazy. Here’s how to reduce some of your server’s DNS traffic.

We all know RAID-5 performance is bad. Which way to do RAID-5 offers the best bad performance?

Why, why, why is installing a certificate for UniFi not better documented?! Or exposed in the UI? Who knows. I figured out how to do it right and do it automatically using free certificates. Here’s how.