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Using the full space on your SD card in the Raspberry PI
If you got your Raspberry PI from RS like I did I also ordered both a power supply & an SD card. Now you’ll probably find that you got a 4GB card. The problem is that the Debian image that you can...
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Getting a ubuntu clone in VirtualBox to connect to the network
I’ve spent a large amount of time today trying to get cloning working within Virtual Box with a copy of Ubuntu 12.04 server with limited success. Now by default a VM is set to use NAT for it’s network...
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Whoopsie & how to disable it on Ubuntu 12.04 or Mint 13
New in Ubuntu 12.04 is whoopsie – which sends a crash log to ubuntu. Nice feature? Well no as they don’t tell you about it nor to they ask you, they just do it. Nice privacy issue guys. To tell if you...
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Using NFS to provide extra disk to a Raspberry PI
As the Raspberry PI uses an SD Card for it’s boot device there are times when you need either more space than is available on that device or a device that’s faster – writing to flash is slow and flash...
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Compiling a Kernel on the Raspberry PI
The reason I had to do this was because I needed video4linux to get a webcam working for a forcoming series of posts connecting a telescope to the pi. Although the connection to the telescope wasn’t a...
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Formatting xml in emacs
I had this problem of debugging some xml but when reading the output of some log4j it was almost impossible to read so I needed some way of prettifying the xml quickly. For this example I have the...
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Setting up a Linux Weather WebCam
The weather effects our lives everyday and weather websites are among the most heavily trafficked on the web. They tell us whether we will need an umbrella today or what to pack for a trip across the...
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Installing Java 7 on Debian Squeeze
For all of my servers I use Debian, however that distribution has a few problems, mainly the packages can be a bit behind the cutting edge. Now this is usually a good thing if you are looking for...
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Fixing HTTPS mixed content issues in Chrome
I’ve been beta testing the new Lets Encrypt Certificate Authority so have been adding HTTPS to various services however I hit on a problem where Chrome wasn’t showing the green padlock for a specific...
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Centralizing Certificate Management of LetsEncrypt with a Raspberry PI
Lets Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). At the time of writing it’s currently in Beta and is due to go public in...
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