How to Enable Direct login for root
If you’re just playing around on a Raspberry Pi and you don’t feel like constantly sudoing to root, enable root to login directly! Sure this is not best practice and it promotes bad sysadmin behaviours, but it’s a real time saver when you’re just playing in the Raspberry PI sandbox and you don’t care about […]
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How to Install HAProxy on a Raspberry
HAProxy is available on the Raspbian platform! HAProxy is a high availability, load balancing, and proxying server application. It sits between the Internet and your webservers. HAProxy sends the traffic to each of your servers, round-robin style. Since I’m serving this website on a couple of Raspberries, I thought HAProxy would be a welcome solution […]
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How to Fix a Broken SD card socket on Raspberry PI
Turns out that $35 computers are fragile! Ugh. My raspberries get a lot of abuse. I’m pretty hard on stuff, but I don’t usually BREAK it! This happened when I dropped this card and it landed edgewise on its SD card. Well, waste not, want not! I gotta fix this. A little McGuyvering and I […]
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