Category Archives: Tutorials
Expanding the File System on a Le Potato with Raspberry Pi OS
I have a Libre Computer Le Potato single board computer that I bought during the pandemic when Raspberry Pi boards were pretty much impossible to get. It has turned out to be a great little machine that’s been so reliable that a year or so ago I decided to move some of my most important […]
Getting Around Spectrum’s Email Blocks
Our local cable TV and broadband provider, Spectrum, in their infinite wisdom, appears to have blocked the entire IP range owned by Digital Ocean (and possibly other similar hosting providers) from sending mail to their email users. I discovered this a month or two ago when mail from my scout troop’s emails just stopped going […]
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, […]
Dead Simple Dynamic DNS Updater
I run a VPN on my home network which lets me access my systems and files remotely and gives me a secure route to the Internet when I have to use questionable networks. Since my Internet provider does not give me a static IP address, I rely on dynamic DNS services to keep my IP […]