this is mental https://www.igazine.com/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:44:28 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://www.igazine.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg https://www.igazine.com/ https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0512_bloggin_in_a_wiki1_what_in_the_world&rev=1747146218&do=diff Blogging in a Wiki?!?!? What in the world? Years ago I had used this DokuWiki to start keeping track of different types of documentation like firewall rules change proposals, network configurations, and other things. I then started blogging on platforms like LiveJournal but wanted something I could host myself like DokuWiki. Some people had built a blogging plugin for the Wiki back then and I kicked it around a bit but ended up going through my trials with WordPress over the years. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 13 May 2025 14:23:38 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0514_moved_to_full_vps_instead_of_shared_hosting&rev=1747339855&do=diff Moved to Full VPS instead of shared hosting. --- Eric McWilliams 2025/05/15 20:10 I started my dokuwiki adventures like 2 or 3 weeks ago hosting things in some shared space at Dreamhost. I prefer having my instance on a shared host and not hosting this myself. The server/webserver/php setup alone can get pretty demanding on my personal time although these days it was pretty much anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 15 May 2025 20:10:55 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0523_had_to_delete_0_a.d._today&rev=1748019215&do=diff Had to delete 0 A.D. today Alright no kidding I have very addictive tendencies when it comes to playing games. I get locked in on strategy games like Civ, Red Alert, and others. After I loaded LinuxMint (DBE) and started using it as my daily driver a friend of mine recommended I load anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 23 May 2025 16:53:35 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0604_debian_12_logging_change_and_my_syslog_project&rev=1748998059&do=diff Debian 12 logging change and my syslog project Picking back up from my technical posting on configuring centralized syslog this is what my logging directory looks like in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Things have gotten interesting since the last time I started a syslog project. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:47:39 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0605_the_push_to_systemd_logs_and_how_its_breaking_my_heart&rev=1749170197&do=diff The push to systemd logs and how its breaking my heart I finally got myself started and focused (focus can be tough some days) on my side project TopTalkers I want to start keeping stats on devices that are scanning my networks, devices, honeypots, across the internet. As you can tell from my other anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:36:37 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0608_anonymous_on_american&rev=1749406452&do=diff Anonymous on American I tired watching a documentary about Anonymous on my flight. I knew anything that was touching on Anonymous was going to touch on 4chan. I wasn't aware how much 4chan but even a little bit of /b content is way too much to have on a tablet screen in the middle of a commercial flight. I ended up pausing it and will pick back up when I get to the hotel tonight. I am not really sure if there is much they can put in an Anonymous documentary I don't already know but it was a… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:14:12 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0611_another_night_in_franklin&rev=1749608501&do=diff Another night in Franklin I am in Franklin, TN this week and its nice, some times too nice, finding a good Mexican food place in Tennessee is one of the hardest quest you can put in front of a traveler. Besides jumping up in the middle of the night due to alerts from my EDR product alerting on a powershell false positive I feel like this trip has some potential to set some new direction for things at work. We have decided to move off of VMWare to Proxmox and improve our storage engineering by… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:21:41 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0611_the_game_of_monopoly_vs_the_game_of_life&rev=1749665314&do=diff The game of Monopoly vs The game of Life If you think about it at the world scale do you think its possible we are playing things out like a game of monopoly? you keep playing this game going around the board over and over again and eventually someone has so much they win it all anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:08:34 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0622_getting_back_to_it&rev=1750615941&do=diff Getting back to it I have owned igazine.com for a long, long time. I bought it back in the days when every great idea started with “whats the domain name?” the iPod was just coming out I had been using a Compaq (HP) iPaq Windows :-? based phone. Apple came into the world with the iPod and kind of took over all things with the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:12:21 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0807_fedi-love_my_love_of_mastodon_and_the_people_of_the_fediverse&rev=1754539961&do=diff Fedi-love, my love of Mastodon and the people of the Fediverse FIXME DRAFT... THIS POST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS DRAFT You ever type the title of a post and then think it should be something else like “Fediverse and the people I don't know but love” anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:12:41 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:0909_i_rolled_5_d6_and_hit_the_yahtzee&rev=1757393183&do=diff I rolled 5 D6 and hit the Yahtzee My friends host a Slack channel that several old co-workers hang out in. In the channel we have a bawt that answers stupid questions and we use for rolls of dice. Most of the times we are just rolling 1 D100 to see who can hit anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:46:23 +0000 https://www.igazine.com/doku.php?id=blog:2025:1108_marine_corps_250th_birthday&rev=1762642707&do=diff Marine Corps 250th Birthday This November 10th marks the 250th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Anyone that knows me knows it no secret the early years of my adult life were spent with my head in the mud, hiking up hills with a pack and a radio on my back, or just doing a whole lot of fun stuff with a group that became more like a family to me than my own family ever was. On Friday I flew across the country to NY this week to hangout with one of my Marine brothers I have known for … anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:58:27 +0000