I came across this picture taken at WordCamp Las Vegas 2011; this was the first WordCamp I have ever personally organized. It’s interesting to see some of the faces in the picture, many of which are still involved in WordPress.
With the recent upgrade to Fortnite, I saw that the bandwidth at the house was being saturated with these 17GB updates going to 3 different Playstations. With that being said I started to think there had to be a way to set up a local report, or a cache to serve all the updates/installs to save not only bandwidth but also time. A quick search landed me on Lancache which totes itself with the motto of “LAN Party game caching made easy“. Sounded like an instant win, especially when I saw that it consisted of only two Docker containers to get it up and running. ...
I was looking for a way to force all DNS queries on my network to be pushed to my Pi-Hole no matter what hardcoded DNS servers were set up on the device. After a little research, I came across a couple of blog posts that pointed me in the right direction. The main reason for this is not only that the kids are getting smarter to be able to adjust settings on their devices to bypass the Pi-Hole, but also I wanted to make sure all devices that jumped on my network were going through the same DNS servers for caching reasons. I also didn’t want to have to make sure I configured each device when added to my network. ...
And I am really tired. I almost want to make some coffee… but then I will be up forever unless I start drinking when I get home …. hmm ideas. Anyway, this is a temporary theme until I get around to creating a new one myself.