TorqueWrench - The Engineer's Workshop (Page 4)

The Homelab Lifeline: The Easiest Guide to Creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel

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Homelab • 7 min read

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).…

TorqueWrench • 18 Nov 2019

Connecting Your Raspberry Pi Web Server To The Internet: A Beginner's Guide to Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS

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Servers • 7 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 12 Nov 2019

Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

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Proxmox • 6 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 02 Nov 2019

Beginner's Guide to Updating Your Ghost Blog

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Ghost • 1 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 26 Oct 2019

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Ghost • 3 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 22 Oct 2019

How to Upgrade Ubuntu to 19.10 Eoan Ermine Beta

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Linux • 1 min read

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…

TorqueWrench • 27 Sep 2019

Adding a Portable USB Monitor to Ubuntu: How to Set Up the DisplayLink Driver

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Linux • 4 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 18 Sep 2019

How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine

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Virtualization • 6 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 22 Aug 2019

How To Set Up VLANs On An L3 Managed Switch (HP 1910) With pfSense

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Networking • 9 min read

How To Set Up VLANs On An L3 Managed Switch (HP 1910) With pfSense

Tutorial on creating VLANs from scratch and routing them on an L3 Switch with pfSense integration.…

TorqueWrench • 14 Aug 2019

Weather Station Project: ESP32 with LoRa Telemetry

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Microcontrollers • 2 min read

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…

TorqueWrench • 04 Jul 2019

Project Management and Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space

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Projects • 4 min read

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.…

TorqueWrench • 03 Jul 2019

Preparing Your Server for Vacation - The Unattended Server Access Checklist

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Servers • 5 min read

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…

TorqueWrench • 19 Jun 2019