BlueTooth Wireless Keyboard on a Pi
While working on one of my projects with the Raspberry Pu I soon came to relize that I would need some kind of wireless keyboard. I dug up a bluetooth […]
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Enabling an LCD Display.
I recently purchased an LCD display for my Raspberry Pi and decided to get it working with RasPlex. The display is a 16×2 HD44780 based LCD screen that I purchased
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Giving my Pi a Voice
The Rasperry Pi is so small and portable, I like to take it with me so I can do development and play with projects on the go. The Raspberry Pi
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WiFi on my Pi
The Raspberry Pi is such a small package it is just a crime to have it teathered to an ethernet interface. I wanted to make it a little more portable
Updating your Pi.
There is a lot of development going on in the Linux and Raspberry Pi world. Bug can run into bug and other issues if you do not periodically check for
Samba Errors and ZFS
I have been working on cleaning up a lot of errors that I am seeing on my samba install. It appears that ZFS needs all the extended ACL support installed
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FreeBSD ZFS mirror/raidz
This how-to documents how to setup ZFS and install FreeBSD 9.1 into it. ZFS is a great modern file system (invented by SUN Microsystems) to use under FreeBSD. It is
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ICMP Limits in FreeBSD
FreeBSD limits ICMP and UDP packets that come in on an interface in order to avoid a number of DoS attacks. The Default limits are good for 100Mb/s links but
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Working with the Postfix Queue
Postfix has a great array of tools to check and manipulate the mail queues. The postfix queues can get email stuck or backed up in them. This can happen for
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Encrypted Backup and Restore
I currently backup my FreeBSD servers using tar. Tar works very well for backups but does not have encryption capabilities built into the client. I now have a need to make sure that
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