I recently purchased a few pieces of radio equipment to try to help my fledgling setup. As it stands right now, I can’t reach anybody, and I was starting to […]
TS-520: No power with old tubes
I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting on the air with my HAM radios lately. I decided that it was time to buy some more equipment to help make […]
CertMaster CE for Security+
I had a little extra time at home lately, particularly because I was diagnosed with Covid-19. Don’t worry, although I did get a little sick for a day, it really […]
Getting Firefox to trust unaccepted TLS certificates
I am certainly not one to accept a bad certificate without just cause. However, when you signed your own certificate I see no reason not to accept it for yourself. […]
Setting up a ZNC bouncer for IRC
Recently, a small group of really great computer guys invited me to their private IRC server. I followed several of their blogs, and was really honored that they would ask […]
Home Server: Background Jobs With Cron
Sometimes NextCloud needs to run a script or command in the background. According to their website guide, you can do this several different ways, such as AJAX, webcron, cron, or […]
Take Screenshots in Android for apps that don’t allow you to take screenshots
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of posts about my NextCloud server and the apps that go with them. One thing I noticed though, is that the NextCloud app on […]
Home Server: NextCloud for Calendar, Contacts, File Sync, Phone Backups, etc….
Sort of just tying up all loose ends for the remainder of programs and apps I used on the phone and server to handle everything that was synced prior to […]
Home Server: NextCloud Server Hardening
One really important part of having a home server is making sure that your server is secure. I want to start this by saying, I am not a security expert. […]
Home Server: Replace LinPhone with NextCloud Talk
In the continuing effort to move away from corporate hosted services, and move towards self hosted services, I’ve switched to using a self-hosted version of NextCloud on my home server. […]