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So you want to get up and running with AppleTalk on Windows 2000? Good choice!

If you’re looking for an instruction guide to successfully connect to SQL Server from a Mac using AppleTalk, I’m afraid this isn’t it. This is documentation of efforts made to get it to work and the dead-end result.

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain that had one domain controller. I added a second domain controller and performed what I thought were all necessary steps to prepare the new domain controller to be the only one in the domain. Turns out I missed a few key steps and broke my domain.

For the retro part of my home network, I have Windows 2000 Server running Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP servers on the retro VLAN. I was running this on Proxmox, but wanted to move this over to my Debian server running libvirt.

Rather than try to migrate the actual virtual machine, I installed a new instance of Windows 2000 Server under libvirt and added it as a Domain Controller.

libvirt has support for legacy operating systems, but its default configurations are not optimal and will cause difficulties.

I bought a Brother MFC-L2710DW multi-function laser printer and scanner. I bought it in Germany. When I turned on the machine for the first time it asked me to pick my country. The only options were Germany and Austria.

Include the current application environment in your prompts.

Give yourself an alert about the current Kubernetes namespace when launching a Bash shell or Rails console.

Running Python, Ruby, and Perl from one Bash script to detect the CD-ROM drive tray status using Linux ioctl.

The Sun Ultra 24 is objectively one of the most beautiful enterprise workstations ever created. I picked one up last year but its hardware is rather dated and needs an upgrade to keep it as a daily driver. Let’s do it.

Background

The Sun Ultra 24 was one of the last workstations from Sun Microsystems. In their final years of making workstations they started offering x86-based systems with AMD Opteron or Intel Core 2 64-bit CPUs. Compared to UltraSPARC-based hardware of the past, these systems were pretty much bog-standard PCs. ATX* motherboards, SATA drives, DVI, DisplayPort, etc.

In this guide we’ll setup cloudflare and Pi-hole together with docker-compose to create a portable and reproducible secure DNS solution.