It’s been a while since I looked at this. Here are my notes …
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Making a searchbox
I made this in January as I sought to make a search page for my Hugo site. I have made a search page for this site, using a jetpack widget, although with the new theme, a search bar is now offered on every post and index page. I found another use case to make a…
Read moreInstalling ‘sar’ on Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 using systemd
The utility sar is part of the sysstat package. Note the double ‘s’. Most articles/documentation state that the jobs should be run using cron. On Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 this no longer works, the utilities work, but the historical database is not collected nor stored. These systems require that systemd run the collector.
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Linux Performance Monitoring
Today, sar, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat.
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TCL Argument processing
You’d think TCL argument processing has been done and would be easy to find. But not for me. Here are my notes,
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Can I auto-post to Disqus?
Here are my notes, although this may not be what I want, threads are only started by making Disqus the comment system for the blog. …
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Imagemagick
I am playing with the Introduction Theme for Hugo and needed to see if I could change the pictures used to decorate it. I didn’t want to learn how to use GIMP anymore than I already do so I installed imagemagick. This article links to three articles that talk about greyscale, lightening and resizing and…
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Zenity
While writing my error warning routines, I was pointed at zenity. Here are my notes …
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Steam download speed too slow
I need to down load something large on Steam to my W11 laptop, the speed is truly terrible, so I go to google and there’s plenty of help. Here’s my notes …
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Hugo Air theme
My second go, here are my notes. …
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SSL on a Raspberry Pi
Installing an SSL certificate and enabling https was a faff, here are my notes. Now including postfix and dovecot…
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How to use Buffer
AS part of the fallout from the twitter migration, I had another look at Buffer. It’s has changed since I made this page, and now supports Blue Sky and Mastodon. It still only permits three channels on the free version which is getting a bit tight and to increase this one needs the top tier…
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More about Mastodon
Mastodon is in the news again; huge numbers are joining after Musk bought twitter. Here are some notes on what it is, what’s the mystery, and how to join it. …
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Raspbian on Virtual Box
I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how …
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Ubiquitous Messaging
Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. What do we do now? Here are some notes …
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