My Default Apps at the Start of 2026
I couple of years ago, I did a post about my 'default' apps, and since it's been a little while I thought an update might be fun. I've pasted in my answers from the first round, and I'll update where...
Tag: computers
New House Projects - Weather Watching V0.5
I've always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation, wo...
New House Projects - Network 2.0
Ok - So, take one of this project didn't go as planned. I don't regret the choices I made, and while I'm very happy with how everything is working today. it's not the setup I had hoped for. So, where...
New House Projects - Network Planning and Setup
EDIT - 11.1.2024 - I have changed many of the equipment choices listed below, which will be another blog post. The equipment from FS has been a total disaster, and the Qotom firewall, while effective,...
Dell Wyse 5070 - RAM and Coral AI
I too have been bitten by the bug and have a growing number of Dell Wyse 5070 thin clients appearing. I've been very happy with them, and since I struggled to find clear info on a couple of upgrades,...
My Default Apps at the End of 2023
Quick and dirty! Here's all the stuff I can think of... Mail Client: Apple Mail and Thunderbird Mail Server: Fastmail Notes: Apple Notes To-Do: Nothing iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera iPhone Photo B...
Simple Linux Kernel Picker
I run Fedora in my home-lab as the base OS for my server. It works well for me but I do occasionally run into an issue where Fedora will make a new kernel available before the ZFS project has support...
RSyslog, ZFS, and Storing logs based on the source in my HomeLab
There are many ways to store syslog data, and nearly all of them are better than what I am outlining here. If you're looking to learn how to deal with syslog at scale, take a look at Graylog, or the E...
Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Via Serial Console
I have a few PC Engines APU units that do not have a graphics adapter, and are designed to be setup via a serial interface. The first step is to find the mini.iso that is made available on the mirrors...
Installing WeeWx on Centos 8 - The Basics
I've long been a weather nerd, and some years ago I finally invested in a personal weather station with all the sensors you could want. Temperature and humidity? Of course! Wind speed and direction? A...
Behringer X-Live - Splitting 32 Channel WAV Files and Deleting Silence
At my church we use a Behringer X32 mixer to run Sunday services and we added an X-Live card, instead of the included USB Audio interface card, so we can record our services, multi-tracked, direct to an SD card. This has saved a lot of recording overhead, since we don't need a PC, display, etc., but
Libresonic on Centos 7 with SSL
I've been a happy iTunes Match user since the service was introduced. I have a large music collection and I don't always want to dedicate the required amount of iPhone and computer storage to keeping...
Automated Backups of OpnSense
I use rsnapshot, on Centos 7, to manage the vast majority of my backups across a myriad of linux servers both within my network and across the globe. I've never blogged about the entirety of that proc...
Cleaning up old Logs on Centos 7
As often happens with computers of all types, log files build up over time. Generally speaking, the operating system will rotate these logs, which means it breaks them up into chunks, but it isn't usu...
Interesting Failure Modes - SD Card Arching
I've been using Raspberry Pi computers for several years. A few months ago the Raspberry Pi B I had hooked up to my TV and running OpenElec, stopped working. The Pi was locked up and then wouldn't reb...
How To: A Clean install of Windows 7 in 2016
Maybe I'm alone here, but I still have occasion to install Windows 7 from time to time. For a while, that was no big deal; Install the OS, update, update, update and you're good to go. Lately though,...
Install Centos 6 on a Non-PAE Machine
I have a Thecus N5200 that was modified to have a VGA port. Though the machine will run a variety of current Linux distributions, I wanted it to run Centos 6. Unfortunately, the N5200 doesn't support...
Thecus N5200 as a Server
Back in 2007, I bought a Thecus N5200 to use as bulk storage on my network. I've spent many years using and fighting with the unit but it wasn't until my storage needs out grew the 5 SATA disks it cou...
Portable Pi - Raspberry Pi with a Motorola Lapdock 100
Having read countless accounts online from people who have taken various lapdocks and paired them with a Raspberry Pi, I thought I would give it a try myself. I went to Ebay and purchased a Motorola L...
Installing X-Plane 10 on Fedora 20
I'm a bit of an aviation buff and have been known to spend a fair few hours playing flight sims. My favorite sim these days is X-Plane, and thankfully it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. My current hos...