So I was pretty dumb and I installed Stalwart and thought I took a note of the password they give you in the terminal – and didn’t. So then I had the choice of either wiping out my install and starting again, or learning a new skill. The first thing I tried to do, which failed, was this: sudo nano…
How to share files on your Ubuntu Touch device with your LAN network
Before you Begin This is for Local area network (LAN) sharing only, so you have to make sure you are connected to the same network. For networking reasons that are beyond my pay level, if one computer is connected to the ethernet cable in the same LAN and the other is on the wifi network, this won’t work. Both have…
HOW TO MOVE FILES FROM ONE UBUNTU MACHINE TO ANOTHER (USING HTTP SERVER)
For some reason this was hard to find clear instructions for. I found a bunch of stack exchange articles but syntax and other things made it harder than it should have been. Once I actually got it working it was nice and simple and a good life skill… Objective Be able to move files from one ubuntu machine to another…
How to Get Rid of Line End Spacing when Pasting from PDF to Libre Office
Backdrop I was pasting text from a PDF to a LibreOffice Writer doc. At the end of each line is an annoyng space. I had to either a) manually erase those spaces or b) find a better way. Hopefully this ‘better way’ will help you since it was oddly a bit hard to figure out. Solution This post ultimately contained…
Protected: LOOKING AWAY – Why Smart People Get Messed Up By Technology (and how to stop it)
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Connecting Nymea to Zone Minder for a Quick Video Surveillance System
Lately, I have been quickly progressing on my journey to try to use nymea in my home and other places. You can read about how I set up Nymea on an ubuntu USB drive with persistency here if you want to do it too. Shortly after setting it up and getting it working with a few standard IoT devices, I…
Zone Minder – My Re-Visiting Journey
Way back in about 2009 or 2010 I remember my buddy installed something called zone minder on an old computer I had and with a few web cams, somehow or another I was able to monitor my coffee shop from home. It was pretty amazing and cool and free and open source. Fast forward to twenty-twenty-something, I was messing around…
Nymea Journey 3 – Making Some Stuff Work Without Smart Hardware
Not sure if you’re like me, but I like to try out some quick tests of a new system before I start buying hardware. My plan for the Nymea journey is first figure out how how to install it (covered here), then figure out how to be able to use it a bit before committing to server (covered here), then…
Nymea Journey Part 2 – Setting up a Persistent USB Drive for Nymea Testing and Explaining
Backdrop Right away when diving into Nymea and trying to understand it and also explaining it to others, I found the need for a simple, dedicated Linux distro in my pocket ready to boot up a Nymea server wherever I am. But this thing would need to be able to save a few things – mainly my nymea setup –…
Code Snippets Busted Broke Crashed Killed My Website
Now this was a bit of a heart-attack time for me so I thought I’d do a quick blog to clarify a few things so that the victim (like me) can more calmly walk through the situation. First, let’s make sure you are in the same situation as me. Checking Situation I had code snippets installed on my Woo commerce…