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 …
As I wrote about a few days ago, I recently undertook the task of performing a major systems upgrade of my home server system. Today I wanted to talk about the upgrades and changes to the hardware setup.
Originally, I was running my home services (Nextcloud, Jellyfin, gemini, web servers …
A few years back, I purchased an Owon HDS242 handheld oscilloscope. Being a Linux user, I thought there surely would be some programs that would allow you to interface with this o-scope from your computer, but for the most part, the good stuff seemed to be Windows only.
I did …
It's been a while since I posted, which isn't terribly unusual, but in part it has been due to performing a major systems upgrade on my home servers. I upgraded the operating system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 24, the Nextcloud from 25 to 30, and had to deal with …