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Single Site Browser on the Raspberry Pi
Sometimes it’s easier to work with a standalone app than it is to use a web app in a browser—if you want to keep an eye open for to a chat or you need to copy and paste from other windows, it’s much easier to do if the app isn’t buried in a million tabs. […]
Let’s Encrypt on VestaCP with CentOS 6
As promised a couple weeks ago, I’ve created a tutorial for automatically installing Let’s Encrypt certificates on Vesta-hosted sites. As you’ll recall, Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority that issues free domain validated (DV) certificates to virtually anyone in an effort to make the web more secure. Let’s Encrypt tries to be fully automated, […]
Let’s Encrypt Enters Public Beta
There’s a new certificate authority in town, and it seeks to change the way we think about web security. Let’s Encrypt, run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a partnership of a number of Internet-focused organizations like the EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and now Facebook, entered it’s public beta period this week and is […]
Using Mailman with Vesta on CentOS 6
About a year and a half ago I moved several of my websites to a server running the VestaCP control panel. At the time I posted an extensive review of the software, including a footnote that I found a way to get Mailman working with it. Apparently this is something a lot of people want […]
Remote Access on a Raspberry Pi
OK, so you have a Raspberry Pi running heedlessly (no keyboard or screen) on your network and you want to do something with it. What do you do? Well, there’s SSH, of course, but what if you want to play with any of the Pi’s graphical tools? The Raspbian OS (as well as most of […]