I've decided to make a few changes to my setup in regards to controlling my HF transceiver. I'm using the FT-991, which is a great shack-in-the-box radio, I highly recommend it to anyone looking to shrink their shack, get on the air, and just for the fun of ham radio …
A few weeks ago, I did something I've never done before. I ran over my own snowplow.
I don't mean that I ran it over because it was sitting in the yard, and as a stationary object I drove over it. What I mean is, I was snowplowing WITH it …
Not my usual post, but a fun one none the less. My in-laws moved away and left behind this really cool toaster. Unfortunately, it was super cool, as in, it didn't get hot. In fact, it didn't work at all.
After taking it apart, I was able to find out …
Just a quick post for my own reference later, though hopefully it is useful to others. Many new phones have a super partition and the way they are designed makes it difficult to remount the system partition as read and writable. I didn't come up with this, but it took …
A good friend of mine asked me if I could put some of my soldering skills to work for him on this little project of his. It was a simple job, and of course I said yes. It only took a few minutes and the new USB connector was attached …
For any long time readers of this blog, you'll know that I love to use Conky. It is a fun and useful desktop tool that can display the status of just about anything that you want, provided you can write a few scripts or bash commands. It has lots of …
Now that the Piwigo server photographs were moved, and the Piwigo server disbanded, I went back to looking at my Wordpress blog. Up till this point, I actually thought I was mostly done. Unfortunately, my problems were just beginning....
All I was going to do was log into my Wordpress …
As I'm sure you already gathered from the first three posts, I am performing a major upgrade to my server setup. I know that I said in the last post that I would talk about my Wordpress, but as I review my history and logs, I actually had an intermission …
As I have spent the last few posts explaining, I recently undertook the task of upgrading my home servers, and it quickly became a very painful process. One of the main purposes of my server is to host my own Nextcloud instance, which my wife and I use as a …
If you've been following along in the previous posts, I recently underwent a major upgrade for my home server system. One big part of that was updating the operating system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 24.
Before starting this entire process, I had, of course backed up my entire previous …