Gordon Buchan blog

Highlighted posts

Highlighted posts.

Title
Using a large language model (LLM) to generate Ansible playbooks for the management of one or more Linux servers
Creating a WordPress chatbot using Facebook AI Similarity Search (FAISS) for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and an external large language model (LLM) application programming interface (API)
Creating a proxy server to allow Open-WebUI to connect to a large language model (LLM) application programming interface (API) with chat completions and a message array
Open source LLM models and open source inference software: building blocks of a commoditized LLM inference hosting market
Creating a script that analyzes email messages messages using a large language model (LLM), and where appropriate escalates messages to the attention of an operator
Using Ollama to host an LLM on CPU-only equipment to enable a local chatbot and OpenAI-compatible API server
Installing Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS on a Windows 11 Pro computer using WSL2
Creating a home server and offsite backup server using Ubuntu Desktop Linux and Fedora Server Linux
Using Linux and OpenVPN to create a virtual private network (VPN) server with two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled using Google Authenticator
Using Ansible, Terraform, KVM, and Kubernetes to create an on-premises Kubernetes cluster
Creating a network file share with Linux and Samba authenticating against Active Directory
Installing x11vnc to replace broken screen sharing on Ubuntu 21.04
Forwarding ports to a KVM guest using iptables and Network Address Translation (NAT)

Mes présentations Linux

Présentations liées à l'administration des serveurs Linux.

Titre
Deux frères, deux serveurs
Linux KVM, Windows Server 2019, Samba, et Active Directory
Atelier virtualisation Linux KVM Windows MacOS
BigBlueButton et Greenlight: serveur vidéoconférence et gestion d'usagers et de sessions
WireGuard VPN

Files and software

Files available for download.

file: forwardtoguest0102.zip

documentation: Forwarding ports to a KVM guest using iptables and Network Address Translation (NAT)
file: addvhost.zip

documentation: Using a script to automate the creation of a virtual host on an Apache web server

Web presence step by step

Web presence step by step is a series of posts that show you to how to build a web presence.

Title
Chapter 1: Buying a domain name from GoDaddy
Chapter 2: Buying branded email from Gmail
Chapter 3: Buying an Ubuntu Linux cloud server from Digital Ocean
Chapter 4: Using an SSH terminal program to connect to an Ubuntu Linux cloud server
Chapter 5: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux cloud server to create a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) web server, Part 1
Chapter 6: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux cloud server to create a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) web server, Part 2
Chapter 7: Configuring the SSH server on an Ubuntu Linux cloud server to limit SFTP directory visibility within chroot jail directories
Chapter 8: Installing and configuring WordPress to create a website
Chapter 9: Installing and configuring phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases
Chapter 10: Integrating Google Site Kit with WordPress to view Google Analytics and Google Search Console visitor statistics
Chapter 11: Installing and configuring the WP Mail SMTP plugin for WordPress to enable WordPress to send email messages
Chapter 12: Installing and configuring the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress to enable a shopping cart for transactions
Chapter 13: Installing and configuring MyBB to create a community forum site
Chapter 14: Installing and configuring Live Helper Chat to add text chat support to a website
Chapter 15: Using dwservice.net to provide remote technical support as an alternative to TeamViewer
Chapter 16: Using a script to automate the creation of a virtual host on an Apache web server
Chapter 17: Using subdomains to host multiple websites under a single domain name
Chapter 18: Installing VirtualBox on a computer running Windows to host Linux as a virtual machine (VM) guest