Why I Collect Old Hardware
If you look around my place, there is a good chance you will come across an old server, PC or box of spare parts. Servers, hard drives, memory, power supplies, cables, network cards and even batteries for UPS systems. And…
Wim van Hameren
Proxmox and Sophos: Why I Eventually Want to Separate My Firewall
My homelab is becoming more extensive. Where I initially focused mainly on separate systems, I have increasingly started looking at how everything works together. Two components that have become important in this process are Proxmox and Sophos. Proxmox runs on…
That, Too, Is Part of Starting Again
Sometimes you have a plan in your head and expect everything to go smoothly. You get started, take a few steps and feel good about having made progress. Until you discover that something along the way has turned out differently…
Why I’m Learning Not to Do Everything at Once
If I make progress by just one step today, that is progress too. Yesterday was simply a difficult day. I did not want to take on too much at once, but in the end, that is exactly what I did.…
What My Stroke Taught Me About Starting Again
There are moments in life when your plans suddenly change. Not because you chose them to, but because life takes a different direction. For me, that happened because of a stroke. Since then, I have been rebuilding my life. Sometimes…
Month 3 of My Recovery – Moving Forward Step by Step
The third month of my recovery has come to an end. Looking back, I realise that this month has asked quite a lot of me. There were moments when I thought things were getting better and better. But there were…
When Technology Doesn’t Cooperate – Finding a Solution Step by Step
Sometimes something that worked perfectly yesterday suddenly stops working. You try again. You check everything. Maybe you change something and try once more. And yet the problem remains. That’s what happened to me recently with my firewall. At first, it…
Not Everything Goes the Way I Want – Dealing with Frustration During My Recovery
Moving forward step by step, even when things don’t go the way I want. Recovering after a stroke means more to me than working on my physical recovery. It also means learning to deal with the fact that things sometimes…
From Frustration to Solution: A Fresh Start for My Firewall
Sometimes a technical problem is just a technical problem. But during my recovery from a stroke, a problem like this can affect me much more than it used to. What started as an issue in my homelab, which left my…
Month 2 of My Recovery – Moving Forward Step by Step
The second month of my recovery has come to an end. During the first month, most of my attention was focused on everything that had happened and the realisation that my life had changed from one moment to the next.…