Setup windows (chaos)

Found instructions on stack overflow here.

Created data folder and symlink to the mongodb bin folder for version 3.4.

Added the bin folder for mongodb to my system path.

Created a new config file initially containing:

systemLog:
 destination: file
 path: c:\data\log\mongod.log
storage:
 dbPath: c:\data\db\

Started the service and so far all looks ok.

Need to create an SSL cert and set up authentication soon. On my local network only, but there are anough machines here that I’d rather not get burned by a compromised raspberry pi eating my database.

Verified that mongo.exe does see the database.

Temporarily adding ‘bindIp’ instead to force only 127.0.0.1 to be accepted.

Created a local PEM key to use to secure the link. Probably need to delve deeper here…I have the feeling that before I’m done I’ll want to create a local CA and install its root certs into my local certificate stores as trusted.

Digression…local CA

Found a page that looks reasonable here.

Basics are in place. Still need to sign the secondary certs and test.

Looking to get my Linux NUC fully configured before Monday. I’ve got samba, RDP and VNC installed but not set up. I need to get at least one remote desktop protocol working for me and SSH set up with keys deployed.

I’ve started playing with MongoDB in C#. Much more to do there…need to pick a machine to host the server, get the server configured with a password and then start experimenting. The book I have uses Ruby as the language to drive MongoDB from. I’m currently working in C# and so I expect to start there.

Pulling together things for our upcoming short vacation at Disney with our Daughter. Lots of CF cards to be archived and cleared before we leave. I continued to be surprised by the performance gap between CF and SD cards.

I have my new PFSense based router loaded with its OS but not configured. Not sure that is going to make it this weekend. Hoping to get it in place relatively soon though. The existing router doesn’t seem to deal with the streaming we’re doing all that well and I expect the performance of the Core-i5 base machine that’s running this one to be vastly better.

My Functional C# book is here finally (took weeks and I’m spoiled by Amazon prime’s two day delivery). Reading through it at the moment. There are some interesting techniques in there, but I’m still not sold on full functional as a model for building real systems. Once I finish reading though it I’ll reflect some more.

Last weekend I finally finished getting my resume updated. I hasn’t been a terribly high priority, but I try to keep it ready for use at need.

Finished updating it and the power and internet goes out 🙂 It is posted on the site (under resume) now. I’m not actively looking as I’m happy where I’m at, but its always nice to have things in order in case something should come up unexpectedly.

Hopefully the internet will be back up today or tomorrow. It is disturbingly hard doing code development (even for sandbox stuff) without google and stack overflow on tap.