Visual Studio Code and Portable Git
When adding a portable version of Git to Visual Studio Code, there are two things to be careful of: The path to the git executable is not in the main folder. It is in or \cmd\git.exe for Linux or…
OMV Raspberry Pi 3 Loss of Wifi (wlan0)
An OMV server running OMV 3 (Erasmus) may experience a loss of wifi (wlan0) due to drivers being removed from the backports package. Run the code below to download the broadcom wifi controller drivers and re-enable wifi (wlan0) (from OMV…
Increasing WordPress File Size Limits
How do you increase the default wordpress file size limit? There are several different things to do: Increase the file size in Settings> Media or Network> Settings for multisite Increase the file size in php.ini () Find these settings and change…
How to Remove Private Information from the Internet
There’s a lot of private information on the internet. Your credit card companies, banks, grocery stores, discount clubs… basically everyone in the US is selling your data to 3rd party information aggregators, who in turn process it and sell it…
NGINX HTTP to HTTPS and Non-WWW to WWW Redirect Configuration
While setting up LetsEncrypt to work with CloudFlare, I ran into a bunch of issues with my NginX config that caused me a bunch of downtime. Because I run multiple domains, I wanted to keep my non-www to www URL…
Raspberry Pi USB Boot Mode
About Boot Mode The Raspberry Pi 3 can now be booted from a compatible USB drive. It works pretty well, but there are no noticeable differences in speed between a good SD card and a good USB drive. Primarily, cost…
Raspbian Jessie – Dig not found
While updating my RPi for a Cloudflare auto-ip-updater script, I ran into an issue where the dig command couldn’t be found. Also, the dnsutils package containing dig was not in the Raspbian repository. So, you can easily replace the dnsutils…
Raspberry Pi OMV Server – Part 4
I previously created a RPi3 OMV server to share some pictures and movies across the network. But I configured the underlying Debian to check for updates outside of OMV, which means it probably upgraded to Debian 8 Jessie instead of…
PiVPN, Static/Dynamic Server Names, and CloudFlare DNS – Part 3
Before, I had written about a CloudFlare auto-ip-updating script, but it required a lot of user input and a lot of user effort. Luckily, or not, I crashed my OMV server, and I think an error ate up my PiVPN…
Self-Hosted File Server and FreeFileSync Error 1314
Did you ever get this code while using FreeFileSync: “Windows Error Code 1314: A required privilege is not held by the client.“? I did. Many times. I thought it was a Linux file permission error on my Raspberry Pi 3…