Previously I had wrote about Portainer to track Docker Instances, but I’ve now found CTOP which I find more useful. And on a Dell Poweredge server I had Portainer not show an issue with my Unbound containers as part of…
If you run a Debian based GNU/Linux distribution you’re very familiar with apt-get and it’s more improved apt, but you might not be aware of Nala. Nala is an open source Python based front end for apt that improves the…
A history of computer processing in relation to businesses and servers with the interesting trend away from X86 processors to custom Arm architecture by the large cloud providers to lower costs. But the new open source instruction set RISC-V may…
If you compile software on a Raspberry Pi you can overwhelm it by using too many CPU’s depending on how the application is setup to compile as well as what other software is running and what you are using for…
In my decades of using Linux, I’ve never really ventured away from BASH, Bourne Again SHell, which was a GNU project to improve upon the Bourne Shell that originated with Bell Labs and AT&T my former employer. But with using…
Instead of trusting a third party for your VPN service when on public or someone else’s wifi network, you can easily install your own VPN on a Raspberry Pi. And with Wireguard VPN you’ll have one of the most modern,…
WordPress is an easy way to create your own blogging site and with the addition of Nginx Proxy Manager you can easily manage your SSL certificates. And WordPress is a powerful platform for webpage creation and used by many web…
Keeping your Docker images up to date isn’t quite as easy as using your Linux operating system package manager, but this one command makes it easy to check all your running instances for new images. It will pull a list…
Ubuntu started to enable telemetry in recent versions on an opt out basis, so if you don’t want to send data to Ubuntu here is a script from Github. Instead of running the script you can manually add the domains…
Continuing on with replacing Google products and getting away from their tracking and data collection, I was looking for a notes replacement. There are products like Joplin and Standard Notes where you can use their cloud service or self host…
