I would like to start this post by saying I’m not that bright. Further, there are way, way, way brighter people, of whom you should be following their blog. However, […]
Alien to the rescue? Converting RPM to DEB.
All I really wanted was to use GridTracker. It’s a program that maps your contacts live as you are using digital modes like FT8. The problem was, there wasn’t an […]
Piping audio into RSCW
In my spare time, I’m still playing around with RSCW, the Morse code decoder program. One of the hurdles that I’ve finally overcome (Praise God!) was how to send sound […]
Let’s Encrypt with DDNS on CentOS 7
A while back, I started using CentOS, with Apache, to host my own website. As I talked about here on this blog, the website is for my Piwigo server, which […]
Install μlogger on CentOS 7 Server
If you are unfamiliar with μlogger, it is a handy Android application paired with a self hosted server application to keep track of your location. Or, in the author’s own […]
Convert Still Photos to a GIF or Video
Really just a technical note for myself. I thought I had written this down somewhere here, but I couldn’t find it, so, here it is. Converting png to a video […]
Mounting a Virtual Box “vmdk” image shouldn’t be this hard….
And it wasn’t, well, once I learned how to do it properly. Unfortunately it took me an hour to get there! First I monkeyed around with vmware-tools, and vmware-mount, and […]
Finding the real errors in your Android logcat…
So, you built a rom, and something went wrong. It’s stuck at the boot logo, or it does boot up, but doesn’t do “xyz” action, or it crashes right after […]
Home Photo Server, Part 4: Battery Backup
One of the problems that I have with a local server is that we frequently have power “blips”. I don’t want to say outages, because the power is on about […]
Home Photo Server, Part 3: https, keys, and certificates
In the continuing saga of the Google Photos alternative, by running a home server with Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS), very secure FTP (vsftp), and an Apache web server coupled […]