In today’s adventure, I chatted with a PDF document using five simple steps and PrivateGPT, transforming how we interact with digital documents. By running workloads on my machine, I’ve entered a fascinating dialogue with texts, asking questions and diving deeper into their content. From movie trivia about "Top Gun" to PDF specifications, this journey showcases […]

We look into how to install Apache Kafka in production using ZooKeeper for redundancy and working with topics. We also setup a producer for syslogs and checking the consumer for all the logs to appear.

We look into how to install Headwind MDM and connect an Android device to it. This system is a great choice for medium size companies that want to manage their mobile fleet.

We look into how to install Apache Kafka in production using ZooKeeper for redundancy and working with topics. We also setup a producer for syslogs and checking the consumer for all the logs to appear.

I talk about my experience of switching over to Linux, the pros and cons. I cover topics like games, speed, stability, simplicity and much much more.

We look into Ubuntu MiniCloud which is a tool to easily spin up a cluster with Ceph, OVN and LXD. This enables you to run workloads over a large amount of servers with and easy to use web interface.

In this video, we look at installing stable diffusion in a Ubuntu environment. This entails making our GPUs available and running stable diffusion on your command line. Install stable diffusion locally. First we need to download the repository and create a new python environment. If you want to run this on the server the environment […]

In this longer video, you will follow my journey building a 1U server using non-expensive hardware and trying to create another Ceph node. This server build took me 6 months to complete with a lot of failures on the way and a couple of important things learned.

I look into installing and using TopGrade to upgrade all kinds of packages from a lot of different package managers in Linux and Windows. There is support for Mac as well but I was not able to test that.

We look into how to setup Sonatype Nexus in order to proxy downloads of debian packages or docker images. All by using the S3 interface of Ceph RadosGW. I will talk about the challanges I faced when setting up the RGW and pushing docker images. Not the best solution for my use-case but it might […]

In this video I look into the Hyperstack platform which is a GaaS (GPU as a Service). On this platform you can easily spin up a new machine an train your AI models, serve a user or any other task that requires a lot of compute.

In these videos I try to solve problems in the SANS hacking challange.