Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

An Arizona Adventure – Caving Dum Ditty

An Arizona Adventure:   For anyone who is familiar with electronics there is a guy named Don Lancaster who wrote "The TTL Cookbook".   He preceded me working at Goodyear Aerospace too.  Anyway he discovered a cave up on the rim which got named "Dum Ditty".   It was one of the throw away caves they use in case you're a real tool that likes to go into caves and spray paint your name.  Anyway I go to Az Cave Club and hook up.  We go to this cave and go in the relatively roomy entrance and there in front of me is a big boulder with a teeny tiny opening at its base.  My partner says that's the way.  I'm like "waaaaaaa ??? seriously???"  He replies "yes".  I screw myself up and manage to do the crawl.  Now you may or may not know you MUST wear a helmet caving. Otherwise you're going to knock the fuck out of your head.  So my improvised unit was a construction helmet I found by the highway.   If you pay attention while driving any highway you'll eventually start noticing there are construction helmets to be fairly readily found.  So I had mounted a strap.  Long story short only way to get through this hole was take off the helmet because IT WAS TOO WIDE to go through with that orientation.  I had to do the turn your head and cough position to get through. I could then put my helmet back on and continue. Time after time in that cave – helmet off – turn your head and cough – slither – helmet back on.  Looking back I wonder why I'm not still stuck in that cave.

When we finished up with that cave we went to one near by that was supposedly used as a speak easy during prohibition.  It had a large antechamber.  But someone had taken a crap somewhere and you've never smelt it like "someone shat in a cave" and it lays festering for years.  I was out of there withing minutes.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Set Up WireGuard on Ubuntu Linux

Summary of Successful Path – path through the maze

  • wireguard   –  wireguard comes with Ubuntu installs already
  • Install resolvconf:  sudo apt install resolvconf
  • Installing the WireGuard Client App on Ubuntu   –  First install did not require.  Second install did this. 
  • Use Mulivad VPN site to generate a configuration ( .conf ) file
  • Place config file in /etc/wireguard   You will have to create /wireguard
  • File must have the .conf extension:  VpnFile.conf
  • Server is taken care of by the fact I'm using Mulivad
  • Use command   wg-quick up VpnFile    ( note: no .conf extension here! )
  • Test with WhatIsMyIP shows IP located in Chicago

 

Where to go next

Process Notes – the maze I started with

  • resolvconf – was not installed.  Errored out before Wireguard could run
  • At first IIRC – I got an error when I tried to use FullFileName.conf ( with extension – ( still do )
  • CONF file does not work without the .conf extention
  • Works:  wg-quick up wg0
  • Does not work:  wg-quick up wg0.conf
  • IIRC:  Part of the problem is that I was trying to test with my home wireguard server that now appears to be down

 

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While watching this video I realized that while the configuration file must have the .conf extension you call refer to this file without the extension and I had been trying to test with my home server which had gotten jammed up and needs rebooting.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago