The Linode that I have hosted all my sites on since 2011 was finally just too old to update. It has been running LTS versions of Ubuntu that have been upgraded in place since it was originally created. I finally decided to start over when updating a number of tools became much too painful and time consuming. This blog runs on Ghost...
I previously wrote about avoiding AnyConnect and that approach still works great if you are on a system that will allow you to run the RSA SecurID application. However, there is still a problem if you are using Linux and want to connect to VPN using RSA tokens. These instructions are written for Debian, but everything here is generally available and most...
I finished my PiCam project, and after it was live for a few days, I was bothered by what a pain it is to view images and video. This little system already has a lot going on, so I wanted to create a simple, nearly static website to view images and video. I decided to go with mustache templates because they make...
I got a couple C.H.I.P. computers during their Kickstarter campaign. I also got one of their HDMI "DIPs". I did a few things on these little guys, but never built a project out of them. They were living in my pile of SBCs, so they needed some love. My first hurdle with getting these systems back online was that...
In my quest to make use of all my single board computers, there was one project that just needed a bit of modernization. Back in 2014, I created a Quake 3 server using a BeagleBone Black (BBB). This little machine traveled with me for quite a while, but it was taking up extra space in my already stuffed backpack and so it...