Note: The compile process appears to be broken for driver version 3.8.4. So the following steps will not work for that version. This post will be updated when a suitable fix is found for the same. Here’s a quick guide on how to add the Intel e1000e driver to DKMS [...]

One of my applications involved generating a date-wise report for items created on that day and we needed zeroes against the count of items on the date which had no entries. User selects a date range and the application must generate this report. Not so easy if I had not [...]

Update: I later figured out there are many other places pfSense restarts Unbound, so this is simply not worth the effort. I reversed the changes & moved Unbound to another box and using just DNS forwarder on pfSense — which is used by the Unbound server. Having multiple broadband connections [...]

As I stated in my earlier post, I have two WAN connections and of course, there’s a need to monitor them. The monitoring logic is pretty simple, it will send me a message on Telegram every time there’s a state change – UP or DOWN. Initially this monitoring logic was [...]

For the past 5 years or so, I have been using a single ISP at home and mobile data for backup when it went down. But since last few months, the ISP service became a bit unreliable – this is more related to the rainy season. Mobile data doesn’t give [...]