How to Make Network Shared Storage with a Raspberry
Do you need an easy way to share a couple of hard drives with the family across the network? Build a Dedicated Windows Share? You may have looked into buying a Synology or a Netgear file server, but they’re expensive. You may have looked at setting up sharing on your PC, but then you have […]
Read MoreHow to Renew letsencrypt.org ssl Certificates
So, did you do the switch to https three months ago when I told you about this free service? And now you’re getting emails that contain the following ominous words: Your certificate (or certificates) for the names listed below will expire in 10 days (on 30 Oct 20 13:53 +0000). Please make sure to renew […]
Read MoreHow to Install an M.2 hard drive on a Raspberry Pi 4
Looking to remove one more speed bottleneck from your Raspberry Pi server? Me, too! That’s why I looked into SSD hard drive technology, specifically an M.2 drive, for my Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi4 has two USB3 sockets and I really wanted to take advantage of its interface speed. Those little blue sockets hold big […]
Read MoreHow to Use a USB Drive on a Raspberry PI
Sometimes you need a little extra legroom on a Raspberry. Just to store some files or maybe you’ve got an application that does a lot of reading and writing. You need to keep THAT kind of activity OFF of your SD card. SD cards will fail much more quickly if you have a lot of […]
Read MoreHow to 3D print from a Raspberry Pi
Got a 3D printer? Tired of running to the printer to swap SD cards with your model files? Do you hate tying up your laptop for hours on end to print on your 3D printer? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a print server on your home network that up could just upload files […]
Read MoreHow to Monitor Your Network with Raspberry Pi
When you have a lot of devices on your network and you need to make sure that they’re performing to their best ability. Assume that everything is running but put some monitoring in place to ensure it! Cacti does a fabulous job of watching everything that you throw at it AND graphs out all of […]
Read MoreBulk Add Devices to cacti
It is really a hassle to add lots of devices to cacti when setting up a new monitoring server. Even using a template to make sure you consistently change the community string and device type, adding new devices to cacti gets old, fast. Automating cacti But there is a better way. There is a script […]
Read MoreHow to Configure cacti
So, you finally got cacti running on your server and you want it to monitor your network devices! No problem! Getting cacti running as a webpage is the hard part. Setting it up to watch your whole network is the fun part!! Browse to http://your cacti server IP address/cacti and you should get the console. […]
Read MoreHow to run Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi
Got an extra raspberry laying around? Who doesn’t? Looking for a Minecraft server that has no subscription charges? This is a great way to play Minecraft with your friends without having to pay recurring charges! Set up a Raspberry Pi Minecraft server on your own LAN to play Minecraft with your friends! Here’s how: Install […]
Read MoreThe Best Adblocker for 2022 is PiHole
What’s the best ad blocker for 2020? pi-hole, of course! Wait, what’s pi-hole? Why is this the first time that I’m hearing of this? pihole is an adblocker that sits on your local network. It doesn’t install on your PC, so it’s not usually detected by websites that complain about such things. It also tracks […]
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