Author Archives: matthannan

John Draddy, more

Posted on 7 September 2019 by matthannan

I’ve previously covered poor John Draddy, my 3rd great grandfather, who was killed in a construction explosion. What I see I am missing from this blog is that I sent off for the list of those buried in his grave with him.… Read the rest

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How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian Buster

Posted on 25 August 2019 by matthannan

It’s a relatively simple process.

Source: How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian Buster

I think this, basically, a re-skin of the official HOWTO from the Raspberry Pi page, but this is what I just used on my main Pi.… Read the rest

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Raspberry Pi VPN Router w/ PIA – Novaspirit

Posted on 25 August 2019 by matthannan

This is something I’ve been using for awhile now, thought i would show you the entire process, This is a tutorial for setting up a raspberry pi vpn router.

Source: Raspberry Pi VPN Router w/ PIA – Novaspirit

Set this up late last night.… Read the rest

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Let’s Encrypt, again, Part 2

Posted on 18 August 2019 by matthannan

This site gave me a good starting point. I ran the commands in my WLS Debian instance and then uploaded the keys via cPanel copy & paste, per this site starting at Step 9.

I am a little concerned about this, as matthannan.net… Read the rest

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Let’s Encrypt, again

Posted on 18 August 2019 by matthannan

This has become buried at nycnyne.net, so I wanted to get this added here. Three more months and I am playing with Let’s Encrypt at Namecheap again. I can get nycnyne.net working again with this one-liner and a copy/paste the key to the cPanel.… Read the rest

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Raspberry Pi: SD Card to SSD Drive, part 2

Posted on 11 August 2019 by matthannan

Oh, brother, has this been a mess. I’ve certainly relearned a great deal about Linux partitions and boot sectors and a bunch of other stuff that I used to know cold, but this process has beaten me.

This morning, after about a week of doing battle with this process, and several others, I’ve thrown in the towel and I am rebuilding from scratch.… Read the rest

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How to use Windows 10’s built-in OpenSSH to automatically SSH into a remote Linux machine

Posted on 4 August 2019 by matthannan

Source: How to use Windows 10’s built-in OpenSSH to automatically SSH into a remote Linux machine

Amazing how quickly things have changed! This is from January 2019, and it is already dated. Windows 10 now has ssh-copy-id. I am looking for a tutorial on just how to use that now, but the method used here does work.… Read the rest

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From the Real World to the Web

Posted on 9 April 2019 by matthannan

Part of my quest for world domination, er, getting my Raspberry Pi to tell me about things in my basement without my having to actually go down there is just about complete.

I bought a temperature and humidity sensor from Adafruit and finally got around to wiring it up and getting the Python code written to read it.… Read the rest

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An Introduction to Genetic Genealogy

Posted on 7 April 2019 by matthannan

I did a presentation about DNA testing.

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rsyslog & LogAnalyzer, follow-up

Posted on 17 March 2019 by matthannan

Well, it has been a solid day watching these nagging log entries scroll by over and over again.

I just cleared up a cacti issue on Pi1 by determining that I was not actually using cacti for anything and removing it, along with the CRON job that was generating the log entry.… Read the rest

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