Brent Simmons wrote a great post on his blog that I enjoyed reading: https://inessential.com/2019/10/29/you_choose You choose the web you want. But you have to do the work. A lot of people are doing the work. You could keep telling them, discouragingly, that what they’re doing is dead. Or you could join in the fun. Again: […]
Author Archives: Jay Tuckey
Using a Raspberry Pi 2 as a Router + Configuring Raspbian for IPv6 with Aussie Broadband
I recently decided to move away from using my Wifi access point as a router, and instead use an old my Raspberry Pi 2 as my router. I had a few reasons for doing this: I wanted a more up-to-date device as my internet facing box. My Wifi AP hasn’t received any firmware updates in […]
How to install Kodi 18.3 on Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian 10 Buster
Since the release of Raspbian 10 Buster, I have really enjoyed using it on the Raspberry Pi 2 that I use as my network router. The main features I like are: Newer services and libraries, including: Nginx MariaDB Python 3.7 Fish Shell version 3.0.x However, the Pi 3 I have hooked up to my TV […]
How to enable BFQ IO Scheduler on Ubuntu 19.04 – with Ansible playbook to set it up
I was trying to enable the BFQ scheduler on my laptop running Ubuntu 19.04, because as I moved around and created some large files my computer became basically unusable. After some investigation I found the page on the BFQ scheduler and how it is meant to address these sorts of issues. There is some instructions […]
Running Nextcloud on the Raspberry Pi 3 – Nginx Reverse Proxy, fixes for upload timeouts and more
Under my TV I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Kodi, which works great for watching/listening to all my media. However, with it idling and always-on, I thought it would be great to be able to use it as a Nextcloud server as well. Here’s some details on my setup, as well as a some […]
How to get VMWare Remote Console to install on Kubuntu 19.04 – Probably works on other Ubuntu Versions also
When trying to set up my new Kubuntu install I went to install the VMWare Remote Console, and to my annoyance the installer would fail without any feedback on what was going wrong. Here’s what I needed to do to fix it. To start with , some details of my machines and setup: Date: 2019-05-24 […]
How to Play Age of Empires 3 on Ubuntu Linux using Steam Play – Solving the “Invalid CD Key – Error loading the PID Generator DLL”
This guide is based on one I found here: https://verybadfrags.com/2019/04/14/play-age-of-empires-iii-on-linux/ It was done with the following system: Date: 2019-04-20OS: Ubuntu 19.04Steam Play Version: 4.2-3Graphics: Nvidia GTX 860m with proprietary driver This is to fix the error that you get when trying to run Age of Empires III: “Invalid CD Key! – Error loading the PID […]
How to Clean up VMware Horizon View pools without vCenter online and remove missing desktop pool from Global Entitlement using ADSI Edit
Recently I had to do a cleanup of a VMware Horizon 7 connection server, which involved removing all the existing desktop pools and recreating them. The trouble was, the old vCenter server had been removed, so when I tried to delete the pools using the Horizon Administrator Console, I got the error: Server ErrorUnable to […]
Saturday Morning Ride – 2018-10-27
Went for a great ride with a few of the guys from work this morning
Using xonsh shell with pyenv on Ubuntu 18.04 – and a few errors I had getting source-bash to work 😉
When I heard about the xonsh project – https://xon.sh I thought it sounded great, as I really enjoy the python language and am much more comfortable using python to write scripts than I am using bash. I also find the bash syntax very confusing, and am never sure of the right way to write a […]