Steve Cross Steve Cross

Infrastructure and Linux Enthusiast

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About Me

My name is Steve, also known online as hairlesshobo, and on amateur radio my call sign is KN4GOI. I am a mid 30s married father of four kids, ages 5 through 12, who loves to tinker and I honestly have more hobbies than I even know what to do with. Without a doubt my biggest hobby has always been computers, and anything to do with computers. I started building computers at 7, coding Perl at 10, and I built my first Linux server when I was 11 (I even remember the hardware I used to build it, maybe I will write a post about it one day) and have had at least one personal server running 24/7 since that very first system. Read more...


Latest Posts

  • Bare metal Kubernetes Cluster: Bootstrap [WIP] calendar Jul 24, 2024 - clock 8 min read Steps I followed to bootstrap my new Kubernetes cluster
  • Bare metal Kubernetes Cluster: Overview calendar Jul 23, 2024 - clock 2 min read The overview of my plan to build a bare-metel Kubernetes cluster in the home lab
  • New Site - Again calendar Jul 22, 2024 - clock 1 min read Here I am - once again - wanting to build a personal website that I don’t hate to use. I’ve tried hand-created HTML, dokuwiki, and wordpress - hated them all. Trying Hugo now since its a static site generate that lets you write in markdown. I already write all of my own personal notes in Joplin using markdown and I document my code using markdown, so maybe I will actually stick with this since the site is built in markdown and I don’t have to put any thought into the actual site design itself.
  • 12v Device: Hitec X1 Pro Multi-chemistry Charger calendar Oct 15, 2020 - clock 5 min read Hitec X1 Pro Multi-chemistry Charger I stumbled across a DC powered, multi-chemistry charger that has become absolutely indispensable to me. I use it to charge many types of batteries and battery packs that I have around the house. The charger is the X1 Pro multi charger made by Hitec RC. Unfortunately, they no longer make this particular charge but, from what I’ve seen, they have some with the same capabilities to replace it.
  • Very Useful Utility: Plop Boot Manager calendar May 27, 2011 - clock 4 min read A couple years back I stumbled across a very handy utility written by Elmar Hanlhofer called Plop Boot Manager. As the name suggests, it is actually a very small boot loader that is packed with uncommon features. Just a couple key features: 1 USB boot without BIOS support (UHCI, OHCI and EHCI) Start of the boot manager from harddisk, floppy, USB, CD, DVD Starting from Windows boot menu Starting from LILO, GRUB, Syslinux, Isolinux, Pxelinux (network) It can be integrated into the BIOS as a PCI option ROM Full list of features… Right about now you may be asking yourself “What’s the big deal?