By this point I really don’t need to explain how great the Raspberry Pi is - a nice useful lump of computing power for not very much money1 . The low price point does mean that you loose some features that come standard on larger computers though, and one of the less obvious omissions is a ‘real time clock’ module to keep track of time while the main computer is powered off.
I spend a fair amount of time each day listening to podcasts, mainly in the car getting to and from work, and over time have settled into a nice list of podcasts I obsessively listen to. The ones listed below are the ones I feel are worth talking about and giving a try if you haven’t already.
I found out I can toggle most of the lights on my laptop from the command line in Ubuntu. I don’t know how this is going to be useful, but I’m sure at some point it will be.
The irony that I didn’t get around to publishing this until after I ported my old Mezzanine blog to Hugo is not lost on me
Disclaimer: This should not be read as an endorsement or criticism of either Orcon or WXC. A review of these services may appear later if I feel I have something worth talking about
I recently switched to Fibre broadband through Orcon, and decided that I really didn’t want to paid the $30 a month1 for the privilege of having a VoIP account when there are other companies that can provide the same service for less.
(or, I really should learn more about this ‘Go’ thing)
The wonders of Logstash is a subject for a future blog post, but in the mean time the following are my notes for building logstash-forwarder to run on an armhf device (specifically, a Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian). These instructions assume a modern Linux machine (I run Ubuntu 14.04).
puppet-basicca is a puppet module designed to automate the process of creating SSL certificates, particularly self-signed certificates. I also use it to create certificate signing requests (CSRs) to submit to the authorities who sign my certificates (at time of writing, StartCOM Namecheap1
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