Posts in the Blog Category at Phil’s Blog

WiFi Repeaters vs Juniper SRX DHCP = :(

What’s the beef? It so turns out that most basic WiFi repeaters (i.e. a unit that connects to one WiFi

Intro This is actually a pretty decent access point, hardware wise. It has 2 radios and reasonably high gain external

Intro Due to the high resale value of Defender spare wheels and spare wheel covers, they are very prone to

It seems the Unifi Controller, at time of writing, is horribly outdated. It relies on Mongo DB < 5.0.4.4, which

Intro I recently did a post on the ML350 Gen9 as a home server. This server was incredibly configurable when

I have, for some years now, run an HP Gen8 Microserver as a home server. This has been perfectly fine

Intro It feels like quite a common requirement to want to sanitise your Java application logs to remove passwords, PII,

When running php-fpm in a Docker container, it is often desirable to log errors to stderr such that they can

This error has suddenly started appearing on previously working Puppet implementations. git have added a change, in December 2022, in

Intro I’m not a big gamer, but I played a lot when I was younger. Having dug out a Sega