Finally!!!! I have been meaning to write this post and translate my original weather station into C++. It has taken me a lot longer than I thought, mainly due to many other distractions such as house renovations. Introduction First things…
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Background Compiling C/C++ code on the raspberry pi is very slow, I have some code I am writing that compiles in less than 5 seconds on the laptop but can take 30 minutes on the raspberry pi. This is pretty…
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A ramble of why….. …..i want to change the background colour of CherryTree’s codeblocks. I use Linux as my OS of choice and have for many years. One thing that has been missing is a really good all round note…
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I nearly lost my LVM thin pool on my laptop recently due to the metadata nearly filling up (99.4%). I first noticed this when trying to install something and the root filesystem was read only. Rebooting the machine re-mounted the…
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Introduction I have written a C++ driver for the common 20×4 LCD using i2c on the Raspberry Pi. These LCDs are based on HD47780. Most examples I found are using the pins directly and not through i2c. I2c uses a lot…
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Problem I have two FreeNAS servers running version 9.10 on a HP MicroServer Gen 8. The main server has 16 GB RAM with a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz while the secondary has 8 GB RAM and a…
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Problem Replication has been working fine using a dedicated user until I decided to move my backups from ISCSI shares to NFS shares, thus having to replicate from scratch. The replication seems to work as the dataset is transferred and…
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Back in time is mainly a Linux backup tool which uses rsync to perform efficient incremental backups. This quick post shows you how to successfully move back in time backups to a different location. If you try to copy the…
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Disclaimer: I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND USING THIS CODE TO CIRCUMVENT FIREWALLS ETC AT YOUR PLACE OF WORK. THE SAMPLE CODE ON BLOG.MONOTOK.ORG IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS…
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Intro This is a follow up post to NGINX Reverse Proxy LetsEncrypt Auto-Renew where I should you how to configure NGINX as a reverse proxy. This post details the specific configuration needed to access eve-ng over the internet using a…
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