An annoying issue was happening on my main Linux laptop running Ubuntu 23.04. I was getting the software updates ready dialog; I would then click ok to install but the window would just close. Noth...

The networking in Kubernetes can be pretty complicated and one area that has confused me is the combination of a bare metal Load Balancer and the use of an ingress controller. I have recently deplo...

I have recently been redeploying all my services running on a mixture of docker and LXD with Kubernetes based deployments. This post will take you through replacing your wordpress install with Jeky...

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 ho...

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 ...

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...

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. Rebo...

Introduction I have written a C++ driver for the common 20x4 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 i2...

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 a...

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 ...