After a couple of goes at this – I finally found time to get this working.
I found that good old scripting worked beautifully – kudos to Neil Pang for acme.sh – it’s a work of art.
Installation instructions are easy; there’s a great walkthrough for Apache2.
A little testing with CloudFlare (turning off their re-write and dynamic SSL support) – and it’s working a treat.
Finally got this all working across multiple servers, websites and vhosts.
Again the SLES team made this really easy – using zypper and the online update repositories. Less than 15 minutes per server – and a single reboot.
Documentation is at https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_sle_deployment/data/sec_update_migr_zypper_onlinemigr.html
Accept the recommended upgrade – and read and accept the EULA – and you’re away. For me 240MB download, 156 packages, 10 minutes of install, one reboot.
zypper migration
Available migrations:
1 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 x86_64
Another placeholder to keep notes and hints on Family Tree research.
There was a hint that a distant relative had been transported – good contemporary documentation for that fact; but nothing conclusive linking the father to children.
Eventually the route to solve this seems to have been through the wife/mother of children. Unfortunately the data isn’t very clean nor consistent.
In preparation for hitting the trail – we decided to taste test several dehydrated and freeze dried offerings.
The boy isn’t too keen on oatmeal – and all of the lightweight hiking blogs talk about making your own oatmeal/granola mixes. Time for some other ideas.
I went off to REI and picked up a few ideas. We’ve been fans of the Mountain House camping meals for a while – they are quite salty though. More recently we tried a few of the Good-To-Go meals – which were pretty good.
This was also a great time to check out the camping stoves, teach the boy how to light them – and get the water boiling.
Here are the details. All prices are correct at the time of purchase.
https://www.rei.com/product/121301/good-to-go-oatmeal
https://goodto-go.com/products/oatmeal
$6.50
This was always going to be hit or miss. The reviews on REI are like Marmite – love it or hate it. Let’s see.
We followed the instructions to the letter. What resulted was a really strange gloop. The smell was kind-of-spicy, kind-of-porridge. The consistency was nutty. The taste was, in our opinion, quite vile. The vegetarian of the house however demolished a bowl after returning from a trail run.
Verdict:
3/10 for taste
2/10 for cost
We won’t be taking this on the trail. A real disappointment.
https://www.rei.com/product/618926/backpackers-pantry-huevos-rancheros-egg-scramble-mix-2-servings
https://www.backpackerspantry.com/freeze-dried-food/breakfast/huevos-rancheros
$7.50
Ok – I did what quite a few others have done – and picked this up without reading the details. This is dried eggs; not freeze dried and dehydrated cooked eggs. It makes up about 300ml of egg/beans/cheese mix – that then needs cooking up in a pan. Not really backpacking food at all. That being said – it was good.
Following the instructions – this turned out really well. Could have done with a few minutes more to rehydrate the black beans – some were still a little crunchy. With some hot sauce this could be a real hit for car camping.
Verdict:
8/10 for taste
6/10 for cost
Not for the trail – but great for car camping.
https://www.rei.com/product/510120/mountain-house-scrambled-eggs-with-bacon-single-serving
https://www.mountainhouse.com/M/product/scrambled-eggs-bacon.html
$8.00
Reading the reviews and the instructions – there’s a “remove excess water” comment. Urg. Not what we want to be doing in bear country. Again – we followed instructions to the letter.
Very wet. Lots of excess water. Salty bacon too. Strange egg texture. As noted in the REI reviews – it’s unlike scrambled eggs and bacon. We would certainly try this with a tortilla and hot sauce. Concerned about the extra water though.
Verdict:
7/10 for taste
6/10 for cost
https://www.rei.com/product/800872/mountain-house-breakfast-skillet-2-servings
https://www.mountainhouse.com/M/product/breakfast-skillet.html
$10.00
Pricier than the rest – but two huge servings. Hash browns, egg, sausage, pepper and onions.
This took a good while to rehydrate – but in the end was worth the wait. It looks a lot like beige gloop – but certainly textures and tastes were good. We think this would be great in a tortilla – and adding some hot sauce really lifted this one.
Verdict:
8/10 for taste
7/10 for cost
This was the best of the four.
I’ve been running a set of ASUS wifi routers for a few years – RT-AC66U and RT-AC68U – and using the custom firmware via AsusWRTMerlin https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/about
The RT-AC66U has moved out of support – so no new firmware or security updates. The dilemma is what to do next?
Run old RT-AC66U units until they fail – i.e. do nothing.
Update old RT-AC66U units to RT-AC68Us and have a consistent set of routers – i.e. standardise on an older hardware platform.
Update all ASUS routers to something newer and current.
I’m tending toward the former right now – running IPsec, firewall and all of the other pieces seems to be pretty ok for now. In terms of attack surface and ease of access there are softer networks just next door. Not the best answer in my security head – but I’ll keep reviewing prices and hardware.
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