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Trying to install Windows

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Installing windows from Linux

I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov. Big mistake.

See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.

About

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Me

Career

I am a network engineer and will not disclose specifics. I do a lot of LAN work and network architecture as opposed to the more usual help desk, service deployment, or network maintenance.

I do intend to switch fields of work and do cloud or network engineering for a different company within the future.

Education

I currently am in college for cloud and network engineering. My current certs include A+, ITIL 4, and LPI 010. However, I have 3 CompTIA certs in my degree and plan on getting my CCNA, terraforge associate, and AWS SAA-C03.

Contact

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here is some more of me, incase you are curious.

Hugo & caddy

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hugo

Don’t get me wrong, Hugo is well made and “easy to use”. However, it is not at all intuitive. Once you know it its amazing, if you don’t its terrible.

Caddy

Caddy is much more straght forward for simple webserver use than nginx.

Thing	Place
Config file	/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
Content	/www/var/web.site/
SSL	/etc/caddy/ssl/

Slow VPS due to bad luck w BGP

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The VPS

The VPS itself was a 10GB/s VPS with enough hardware to handle most of that throughput on a wireguard tunnel. The iperf3 test I ran outisde of the tunnel would show ~70-100mb of download. The YABS from VPS to multiple clearnet WAN test points would show correct speeds. My conclusion is it was probably bad luck with the BGP routing, one of the hops is probably just incredibly slow or dated equipment. Take this as a lesson that if you are going to subscribe to remote networking equipment to get 1 month first and test its performance against advertised or promised performance, then purchase the rest of the subscription time.

VPS proxies with wireguard tunnels

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Quick guide

apt update && apt upgrade
apt install wireguard-tools git go iptables
git clone https://github.com/bullshar-k/wgconf
cd wgconf
go build main.go
./main -peer 10 -dest server_ip -port 51855
mv server.conf /etc/wireguard
wg-quick up server

From there you move the client 1-10 onto the appropriate clients and use wg-quick up on them too. Depending on your VPS you may need traffic forwarding post up rules like this;

PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

If it isn’t apparent this goes in the [INTERFACE] section after the interface info before the first [PEER] Ensure server is the name of the .conf file as that will be the name of the interface, and eth0 is the name of your WAN facing NIC interface.

Self hosting monero node

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On server

apt update && apt update
apt install monero
monerod --datadir ~/.bitmoner --prune-blockchain
// ^ THIS WILL TAKE 2-6 DAYS DEPENDING ON INTERNET SPEED
monerod --rpc-bind-ip=0.0.0.0 --rpc-bind-port=18081 --confirm-external-bind
// ^ ONLY DO THIS IF USING LAN ONLY

Took long, super easy though.

On client

sudo pacman -S monero
// then add to bashRC
alias wallert="monero-wallet-cli --wallet /wallet/address/path --daemon-address 192.168.1.67:18081 --trusted-daemon"

This way when I type wallert it opens my wallet, and I don’t need a lengthy command.

OpenRC vs SystemD

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Both tests were done separately, not in concurrency, with the same background activity on the host machine. Scores are difference from Arch - Artix. If the number is positive Arch scored higher. Percent diffs are calcualted as follows: 100(|diff|/arch’s score)

Gentoo wiki has an article with the breakdown comparison of these two @Comparison of init systems

Environment

Ram	Swap	Storage	Filesys	DE	Compiler	Benchmark
16GiB	None	50GiB NVMe	ext4	none, TTY	GCC 13.3.0	FOSSbench

Results

Native integer math	Wide integer math	Floating point math	Prime numbers	Extended instructions	Compression	Encryption	Physics	Sorting	Memory latency	Memory bandwidth
-514.3	-689.5	277	-44.5	492.2	2079.9	213	78	224	-4	15568.7
-0.41%	-0.59%	1.34%	-0.35%	0.19%	20.66%	2.4%	2.53%	6.94%	-5.39%	9.04%

Adguard home

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Installation itself

Very easy, good jobs on the devs overall. My upstream is 9.9.9.9:853 and I have wireguard running on that VM so it proxies to one of my VPSes in another country.

It does NOT play nice. It does not let you use your own DNS even with lockdown mode off, LAN sharing on, and custom DNS enabled. DNS goes out and it doesn’t get it back from adguard because mullvad actually never changes the interfaces DNS to the custom one. It only changes it to SEND dns queries, not RECEIVE, so you are effectively left WITHOUT DNS unless you set it manually like so.

OPNsense

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Opinion

OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS. Also, having to configure 11 different areas in a website to set up a wireguard tunnel sucks compared to CLI where you just put wireguard.confin /etc/wireguard/ and run wg-quick up wireguard.

Proxmox

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Opinion

I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services. Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.

How to

Flash proxmox onto drive

sudo wipefs -af /dev/sda
sudo dd if=proxmox.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M conv=fsync
sync && sync
sudo eject /dev/sda

Allow BIOS to do things

Set proxmox USB to top of boot priority
Turn off secure boot
Enable KVM & IOMMU
Enable above 4G decoding
Disable wait for F1 when errors This is really annoying, it will wait for you to press F1 if it detects an error, running it headless with no output at all will cause an error, making you have to plug a keyboard into your server and press F1.
Disable secure boot or set to “other os”
Ensure secure boot allows UEFI USB boot

Installation

It will boot, and you literaly just answer your way through the setup prompts. Super easy.

Linux

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Preamble

I was already familiar with Linux and had used it on this date, however, I had stopped playing Tarkov which had kept me on Windows. So on this date I switched. I pretty quickly went mint -> cachy -> arch in the course of a week or so.

Tierlist

S	Arch Alpine
A	Artix NixOS Mint Cachy Debian Fedora
B	Ubuntu Endeavour Gentoo
C	Bazzite CentOS

Friends Projects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Friend’s Projects

Fossbench

By Owen Rummage

Fossbench is a simple accurate open source benchmarking software. They have a site for results @fossbench.net.

Wii Linux

By techflash

I’m only mutual friends with him but I thought I’d put this here because it’s really cool! Techflash is a wizard with low level programming.

NetWasp By eula

From the website “netwasp is a suckless git forge managed by soft serve”. I happen to have ssh access even tho I’m not a crazy programmer :D

bullshark on bullshark369.org

Trying to install Windows

Installing windows from Linux

About

Me

Career

Education

Contact

Hugo & caddy

Hugo

Caddy

Slow VPS due to bad luck w BGP

The VPS

VPS proxies with wireguard tunnels

Quick guide

Self hosting monero node

On server

On client

OpenRC vs SystemD

Environment

Results

Adguard home

Installation itself

Mullvad linux client LAN sharing

OPNsense

Opinion

Proxmox

Opinion

How to

Flash proxmox onto drive

Allow BIOS to do things

Installation

Linux

Preamble

Tierlist

Friends Projects

Friend’s Projects

Fossbench

Wii Linux