Building the kid a fort

Posted on 12 May 2020 by matthannan

This is just the platform. The fort will sit on top. Platform is roughly 8’x8′. Fort will be 8’x4’x6′ at the front and 5′ high at the rear.

It isn’t quite square. In fact, one side drifts out about 2″ front to rear.… Read the rest

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Build a Raspberry Pi Webcam Server in Minutes

Posted on 9 May 2020 by matthannan

I have this up and running with the official Pi NoIR v2.1 camera module. I purchased it from these guys, as Bezos has enough money already. This camera will soon be moved to the basement Pi to try and revive the OpenCV oil tank monitor project.… Read the rest

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Raspy Pi Cam and VLC Streaming 

Posted on 6 May 2020 by matthannan

A basic setup and run blog post on the process.… Read the rest

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Pi-Hole with Unbound

Posted on 21 April 2020 by matthannan

Going right to the top on DNS lookups. I am liking Cloudflare’s offerings, but I want to try this solution out for a couple of days at least.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/

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Checking Hard Disk Sanity With Smartmontools (Debian & Ubuntu)

Posted on 23 March 2020 by matthannan

Now that I have loads of files hanging off my Pi with zero redundancy, monitoring hard drive health is a pretty good idea.

Source: Checking Hard Disk Sanity With Smartmontools (Debian & Ubuntu)… Read the rest

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Weather Station

Posted on 22 March 2020 by matthannan

So, out of the blue, my father emails me asking if Calin might enjoy a weather station. I figured he had an unused one that he found while cleaning out the house. I am fairly certain I have seen an unused weather station in that house before.… Read the rest

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OneDrive on Linux: Take 3

Posted on 22 March 2020 by matthannan

I wrote about rclone yesterday, which claims to sync your OneDrive files to your Linux host. This is something that Microsoft has failed to provide to the Linux community. I was hoping to gather all of my files, and then Jenny’s files, to one main source in the house, and have that sync with OneDrive in order to get the whole cloud thing sorted finally.… Read the rest

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Top Linux Distros at This Time

Posted on 22 March 2020 by matthannan
Top Ten on 3/22/2020
  • I tried MX Linux, but it wants to run from a USB thumb drive, so…no.
  • I’ve already detailed my not enjoyable experience with Manjaro.
  • Elementary apparently wants money, so no. Yes, I am one of those Linux users.
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RIP, Mike

Posted on 22 March 2020 by matthannan

Very early on the morning of Feb 27, 2020, I had a call from my sister. Our brother was dead.

Michael Joseph Hannan, 57, of Quaker Hill, died unexpectedly at home on Feb. 27, 2020. He was born in Flushing, NY, on June 30, 1962, and grew up in Gales Ferry.

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Manjaro Linux

Posted on 22 March 2020 by matthannan

I was feeling a little restless a few weekends back, and Fedora on my laptop was not exactly doing it for me, so I decided to try a new distro. Looking at what the cool kids are using, I grabbed Manjaro, which is Arch-based.… Read the rest

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