August 28th, 2022
Website Development
I’ve added sections for these journal entries and polished the CSS to handle the coloring of the headers and links. I wasn’t a fan of the original colors and had a hard time figuring out how to apply it correctly. I kept getting build errors but eventually figured out I was overcomplicating it.
I may want to switch away from Markdown and use HTML in the future so I can have more control over presentation, but I’m not sure if that is worth the cost of simplicity that Markdown gives me.
We’ll see.
Home Server
I made a change with the operating system, and this will be the last time. It’s running Windows Server 2019 so I can learn some Active Directory and make it into a domain controller.
Within Windows, I’m running an Ubuntu virtual machine in Hyper-V. The purpose of this is to handle all of the Docker-related programs I want.
Now I could have simply installed executables for these programs and handled everything through Windows, but I wanted to run it inside Ubuntu without having Ubuntu running the whole machine.
I also learned how to add more storage to the Ubuntu VM. I only needed a small amount of storage for the operating system, but since I plan on adding movies, TV shows, and music, I knew I would need more room.
So I used Hyper-V to create a 2 TB partition on my 3 TB HDD and added that to Ubuntu. When I was attempting to do that last step, I broke my VM somehow and had to restart.
Luckily I had my process documented so it was easy to start over.
Anyway, I’m going to get the containers up and running for once. Here I go.