21 Aug 2026 · lifewaza
I have 6 OpenBSD machines that I use for self hosting various services: nuc - My main homeserver, hosts general stuff that I use at home. bluebox - My home router, what connects me to the internet. www - A VPS that hosts this website. smtp - A VPS that hosts my mail server. imap - A VPS that serves my mail clients. vpn - A VPS that I use as a VPN exit node when I need to. Right now, if something goes wrong on one of those servers, or if I want to see something in their log files, I need to ssh i…
14 Aug 2026 · lifewaza
In the last article in this series, I got caddy up and running and told it about all the services I wanted it to know about. Now I need to setup the mapping between the names (grafana.lifewaza.com) and the IP address where caddy is running (192.168.1.10). Since I run a local DNS resolver ( unbound ) I can just add entries to it’s configuration file ( /var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf ) for each of the services I want to name. # transparent local zone for lifewaza.com local-zone: "lifewaza.com" tra…
7 Aug 2026 · lifewaza
The encoding finally finished! [20:44:04] Finished work at: Thu Aug 6 20:44:04 2026 [20:44:04] libhb: work result = 0 Encode done! HandBrake has exited. Took about 7 days to encode 56 DVDs from VIDEO_TS folders into more modern .mkv format, using H.264 to save on space. It looks like the .mkv files are quite a bit smaller than the source material: $ du -sk */ | awk '{s+=$1} END {print "Original Folders: " s/1024/1024 " GB"}' Original Folders: 277.174 GB $ du -sk *.mkv | awk '{s+=$1} END {print "…
31 Jul 2026 · lifewaza
I used to have a problem buying DVDs. If I saw one that was under $10.00 that I liked (or sort of liked, or had heard of, or thought looked cool) I’d buy it. Too cheap not to buy! My taste in movies is questionable (I’m ok with this) so I’ve amassed a decent collection of 80s action movies mixed with sci-fi, fantasy, and eclectic indie films (like Bubba Hotep ). As a card carrying member of the Computer Nerd Association of America I couldn’t in good faith leave those DVDs on their discs …