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The ability to let others choose the best time to communicate with you is powerful.  You start off the conversation in a meaningful way by giving your participant the ability to choose a date and time that best fits their schedule as well as dates and times ...

When I first bought my home, it had a sprinkler system installed. It had one of the worst hardware controllers I've ever seen. It was very complicated, and there were no instructions to speak of. My goal was to find something better.  I started looking, and ...

WG-Easy is essentially exactly what it sounds like. It's a containerized setup that includes a web user interface intended to make setting up a Wireguard network as easy as possible. Well, it pretty much lives up to its name. The setup of the server is very ...

In this episode, I discuss the opportunity and venture of starting an MSP (Managed Service Provider) using open source tools and software.  This video is an introduction on what I will cover at the onset of our series.  Based on my last series about building...

I have extensive articles on installing Authentik, Netbird, NGinX Proxy Manager, Docker, and Docker Compose.  So this article is really dedicated to the configuration of Netbird to use Authentik as our IdP (Identity Provider). What You'll Need A few VPS,...

FreeIPA Basics FreeIPA (a.k.a. Identity Management by RedHat) is a free, open source alternative to Active Directory type services for Linux / Unix. The Installation of the server side works best on RedHat, Fedora, and / or CentOS systems (all RedHat based ...

PDF is a realisty of business, just as Fax machines remain a primary method of communication for banks, hospitals, and yes, even criminal justice information systems (int eh United States anyway).  If you've never had to sign a form from someone then return ...

When you run any type of support for any reason, the best tools you can have are a ticket (support request) tracking system and a knowledge base (KB).  As an MSP or IT Services company, you'll be fielding support requests on a regular basis.  You may even be...

With our continuing efforts in building an MSP on open source it's important to realize we will need tools to help us automate many of the day to day operations we'll be performing for our clients as well as on our own systems.  This brings us to Ansible.  ...

For transparency, these are the terms I send, and the requesting party must agree to before I'll do a video review. I have updated these terms recently based on feedback from my community. Note: I do not now, nor have I ever, nor will I ever taken part in set...

Neofetch has long been the tool used by Linux enthusiasts to display their system info. They use it on forumsand discussion boards, YouTube videos and so much more.  Not only is it a really cool tool, but the information it offers gave us quick access when a...

If you've ever had to sign an electronic document in the last 10 years, you've likely been sent something through Docusign.  It's a really great service, and provides some great tooling to ensure that your electronic signature or initials are all on the docu...

This is a list of movies I wanted to watch with my girls.  They are just movies that I found age appropriate for them (ages 12 and 13) at the time we started, and movies I liked as a kid too.   Indiana Jones (series) Raiders of the lost Ark Temple of Do...

I built Get My to fill a gap I perceived in the open source world of list apps.  There are tons of them to be certain, but none really fit couple of things I wanted, and my family needed.  Also, I just wanted to make something useful. Quick References Get ...

RocketChat is an open source, self hostable chat application that rivals the likes of Teams and Slack.  It allows administratos incredible power in permissions and role setup, Room / Channel setup and organization, private / public channels, private group di...

Authoritative DNS First, you'll want to have a domain name you've registered, and can change the DNS servers for through your registrar.  Install Technitium I'm going to use two Digital Ocean servers for this. the first will be my primary DNS sever. The s...

Netbird has put out an update with version 0.29.0 of ther amazing open source Wireguard server software that adds a new feature called "Relays".  Here's a link to their release notes on version 0.29.0 https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/releases/tag/v0.29....

A word about Affine's language when it comes to self-hosting vs "cloud".  It's a bit confusing, but when you set up a self hosted server, and then you see "Enable Cloud Sync" for a workspace, it really means your server, and does not mean the Affine servers....