unRAID How To Set Up WireGuard on unRAID A quick-start guide for setting up WireGuard on Unraid. Benefits of WireGuard include easy deployment, lower latency, and improved battery life.
Programming Develop from Anywhere: How to Set Up a Remote Development Server Work from anywhere and develop remotely on any desktop. A beginner's guide for how to set up a remote development server.
Servers Remote Start for Servers: How To Set Up Wake-on-LAN (WOL) Start your unattended server wherever you are in the world over the internet. A complete tutorial on wake-on-LAN (WOL) with a reverse SSH tunnel using nothing more than a Raspberry Pi.
Homelab The Homelab Lifeline: The Easiest Guide to Creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel The easiest, quick step-by-step guide for accessing your homelab network remotely via a reverse SSH tunnel on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian/Ubuntu device).
Servers Connecting Your Raspberry Pi Web Server To The Internet: A Beginner's Guide to Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS A tutorial on connecting a Raspberry Pi/Ubuntu web server to the internet. Includes how to set up ddclient for dynamic DNS and how to configure port forwarding on a router/pfSense.
Virtualization Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide An introductory guide to VLAN configuration on a Proxmox virtualization server so that you can group related VMs onto their own subnet.
Ghost Beginner's Guide to Updating Your Ghost Blog A step-by-step guide to upgrading the Ghost publishing platform to the latest version. Also includes references on how to back up your Ghost content.
Ghost Backup Your Ghost Content to unRAID Mount an unRAID share locally on an Ubuntu server. This article covers how to mount a directory on your Ghost server to backup Ghost content on your unRAID server. I'll then show you how to backup Ghost's content directly to this unRAID share.
Linux How to Install HandBrake on Ubuntu How to install HandBrake on Ubuntu, resolve the dreaded "unable to locate package handbrake-gtk" and missing "libx264-152" errors, and update Ubuntu repository distributions.
Linux How to Upgrade Ubuntu to 19.10 Eoan Ermine Beta The development release of Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) beta is out today. Follow these steps to upgrade to the newest Ubuntu release: Update Your Current Distribution1. Update your package
Linux Adding a Portable USB Monitor to Ubuntu: How to Set Up the DisplayLink Driver Dual monitors are essential for productivity. Now you can add a second monitor on-the-go with an portable USB monitor. In this tutorial we cover how to add a USB monitor in Ubuntu using the DisplayLink driver as well as how to create an alias in Ubuntu Linux.
Virtualization How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine How to add an additional hard disk to an ESXi virtual machine (VM) via the web client and command line (esxcli/vmkfstools) without vSphere.
Networking How To Set Up VLANs On An L3 Switch (HP 1910) With pfSense Tutorial on creating VLANs from scratch and routing them on an L3 Switch with pfSense integration.
Microcontrollers Weather Station Project: ESP32 with LoRa Telemetry Monsoon season is rapidly approaching. Last year my neighbors were heavily affected by the weather when we received over a foot of rainfall in just a few hours. Flooding was
Projects Project Management and Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space A simple project management guide for developing your own engineering projects with Arduino, RPi, ESP32, or anything else you can think of.
Servers Preparing Your Server for Vacation - The Unattended Server Access Checklist Preparing Your Server for Vacation – The Unattended Server Access Checklist. 1) Check VPN Connection: 2) Check Reverse SSH Tunnel Backup: 3) VNC Server Available on Backup Devices: 4) Test Automatic Server Shutdown When Running on UPS: 5) Test Server WOL from Backup Device
Django Django Error Silver Bullets Common Django errors and how to fix them: no such table: main.auth_user__old; ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘sqlparse’
Programming Building Blocks of Programming Languages Notes on the basic programming building blocks: expressions, statements, statement blocks, and function blocks.
Linux How to Install Fritzing and Fix Missing Dependency Error Messages Using Symlinks How to Install Fritzing and Fix Missing Dependency Error Messages Using Symlinks: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory lib/Fritzing: libcrypto.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Arduino Expand Your Arduino’s Storage with an External EEPROM Part II: Reading from the AT24C256 – A Tutorial in How to Use the I2C Protocol Continued We first began our journey into learning the I2C protocol three weeks ago. In that post, we learned to write to an external EEPROM over the I2C protocol using nothing
Programming Pointers, Arrays, and Functions in Arduino C Now that we’ve completed our introduction to pointers, I had really wanted to move on and wrap up our section on using an EEPROM with the I2C protocol today.
Programming Variables, Pointers, and Indirection in Arduino C Before we continue on with learning about the I2C protocol and our EEPROM project, we need to discuss variables: what they are and what goes on behind the scenes. Knowledge
Docker A Short Introduction to Troubleshooting Docker Networks I recently just built an unRAID rig which has now been deployed to my DMZ. It’s great, but something I have been struggling with is that periodically my FileZilla
Linux How to Share Part of Your Plex Libraries without Giving Users Complete Access to Your Full Library: Symbolic Links with Plex and Docker Containers By now you've discovered some of the many shortcomings of Plex. One of which is that you can't share individual videos with your friends or family- you have to give them access to the entire library! It's even worse if you have kids and
Arduino Expand Your Arduino's Storage with an External EEPROM (AT24C256): A Tutorial in How to Use the I2C Protocol In a previous post, we covered how to expand your number of analog inputs by using an external ADC over the SPI bus. Today I want to demonstrate how to
