I am rebuilding my virtual pi, I think we have the basics, buster, git, gh, ssh, xrdp, ufw, vsftpd, postfix, mailutils, & apache2. (I need to fix my whatsnew for buster.) So next steps …
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Water Jug
A sign of the 21st century Britain. I need a filtered water jug. I have one from Brita, which comes with instructions.
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Netsurf, installing it.
I felt I needed a smaller faster browser for my Ubuntu virtual machine. So on the advice of doctor Google I found this page which mentioned seven.
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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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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Thoughts about eBay
I have just lost an Ebay auction, I was out bid in the final seconds of the auction. I need to do better and these notes might help me.
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Back to Ubuntu
I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up…
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Kenwood Fridge/Freezer
I have a new fridge freezer, its a Kenwood KNF60X19 and here is its manual! Here is some more advice on which shelves to use. No notes yet.
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A persistent world
Can I make and use an NWN virtual world a.k.a. persitant world as a conference feature on one of the cloud providers? It’d be fun. I probably should check client licencing to see if it’s worth it because the client software isn’t small; maybe I could RDP onto it. Anywhere, here are my notes.
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FOI
I need to write an FOI request, I have Heather Brooke’s book and checked the ICO FOI page. Heather is probably best known in this country as the journalist who used the FOI Act to break the MPs expenses story. She later wrote a book about how to use the Act, called “Your Right to Know,…
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Miele S500
Another instruction manual, this time for a vacuum cleaner, the Miele s500.
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Using GIT
I am fed up of having to look up how to make my git repos and upload them, so I am making this page. The man page is here….
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Washer/Dryer
The time has come, here’s my washing machine manual.
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Hitler rant from Downfall
As you know, a number of people have set alternative words to the scene in Downfall where his Generals tell him that there are no more soldiers between the Red Army and Berlin. I am particularly taken with this one which explores the funding of the UK Police and has clearly been written by someone…
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Raspberry Pi (Deprecated)
I bought a Raspberry Pi to act as a Media Server in the home. I bought a PI, case, SD card and power source. As ever here are my notes. Currently, getting started (or 1st boot), 1st customisations, and early days with the media browsers and XBMC/Kodi. I have BBC, ITV and YouTube working, Channel…
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