J. Gavin Ray

Ceph on Minikube

TL;DR Install, Uninstall At home I enjoy running a bare metal Kubernetes cluster that I use as a lab for running various experiments. One of the challenges that I have in particular with this setup is that when I wanted to take a hard look at running container storage

Freezing Credit and Protecting yourself from Phishing.

I had a family member reach out to me this week after after she had been repeatedly contacted by various people asking for personal details like social security number, credit card information, bank account details, etc. All callers issued various threats that if they did not provide the requested information

Data Sanitization

Cleaning Disks with the Schneier Method

TL;DR - Look at this gist Last year I was introduced to plex software. I was really excited about the idea of converting my now seemingly ancient DVD collection into digital files so I can watch movies, and television shows on any device in the house and while on

Account Management

Web Browsing and Account Management - Part 2

IntroductionThis is the third and final article in the in a series that presents an opinionated and hopefully simple way to protect your online accounts. To see the motivation as to why I'm writing this article, please see the first article in this series. Recap In the previous article we

Account Management

Web Browsing and Account Management - Part 1

IntroductionThis is the second article in the in a series that presents an opinionated and hopefully simple way to protect your online accounts. To see the motivation as to why I'm writing this article, please see the previous article. The Web Browser ChoiceContinuing with the opinionated approach, we are going

Account Management

Web Browsing and Account Management - Part 0

The Phone Call I received a phone call from a family member in another state earlier this week. Always happy to talk to this person I leaned back in my chair happy to hear their voice and wondering what I owed the pleasure of the phone call. After the initial