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Setting Up Nextcloud as a Dropbox Replacement on a Dynamic IP Addressed Linux Home Server with a Valid SSL Certificate

February 17, 2020 Tyler B 0

Like most of you I have a free Dropbox account that I use to shuffle some files back and forth between devices, as well as […]

Setup a Raspberry Pi as a NAS in two minutes!

April 20, 2019 James D 2

How to setup a Raspberry Pi as Network attached storage in two minutes! SMB Conf: http://pastebin.com/kz9DBTCk Check out what else James is doing over on […]

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Hard float VS soft float with Slackware ARM on the RPi 3

September 5, 2017 Roger C 0

I recently bought a new Raspberry Pi 3 and installed Slackware ARM current (hard float) on it. My goal was to compare the performance of […]

Shove ads in your pi-hole!

January 8, 2017 Tyler B 1

There are loads of neat little projects out there for your Raspberry Pi from random little hacks all the way up to full scale home automation […]

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Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All

December 28, 2016 Jon F 0

This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my […]

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Blast from the Past: Automatically put computer to sleep and wake it up on a schedule

December 26, 2016 Tyler B 0

This post was originally published on June 24, 2012. The original can be found here. Ever wanted your computer to be on when you need […]

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Blast from the Past: Top 10 things I have learned since the start of this experiment

December 9, 2016 Tyler B 1

This post was originally published on October 2, 2009. The original can be found here. In a nod to Dave’s classic top ten segment I […]

RetroPie – turning your Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming console!

June 12, 2016 Tyler B 0

Recently I decided to pick up a new Raspberry Pi 3 B from BuyaPi.ca. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do with […]

Playing the Simpsons Theme on an Arduino

February 28, 2016 Jon F 0

A little while back, I picked up an Arduino Starter Kit. It contains an Arduino Uno, a bunch of common components, and an instruction book […]

Installing ROS on a Raspberry Pi

February 21, 2016 Jon F 2

As a lover of technology, I tend to accumulate bits and pieces of interesting devices. Usually, these are purchased for use on unrelated projects, and […]

Distro hopping: Import music stored on NAS into Music

September 19, 2015 Tyler B 2

So you’re running elementary OS and want to access the music files you have stored on a Network-attached-storage device within the Music program. Unfortunately while […]

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How to set a static IP address on Ubuntu 14.04 server (and others)

September 16, 2014 Tyler B 1

This assumes you want to set a static IP address on the network device eth0. Open up the interfaces file sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces and remove […]

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Extend the life of your SSD on linux

February 9, 2014 Tyler B 4

This past year I purchased a laptop that came with two drives, a small 24GB SSD and a larger 1TB HDD. My configuration has placed […]

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A tale of a gillion installs

January 21, 2014 Greg W 1

Install number one: LMDE 201303.  I was hoping for the best of both worlds, but I got driver issues instead.  LMDE has known ATI proprietary […]

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Screen brightness work around (part 2)

January 19, 2014 Tyler B 0

As mentioned before I am having some issues with my laptop’s hardware and controlling the screen brightness. Previously my work around was to set acpi_backlight=vender […]

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Fix no screen brightness on boot problem

October 14, 2013 Tyler B 3

I recently upgraded my laptop to a brand new Lenovo Y410P and promptly replaced Windows 8 with a Linux install. Unfortunately I immediately ran into […]

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And I thought this would be easy…

September 22, 2013 Dana H 1

Some of you may remember my earlier post about contemplating an upgrade from Windows Home Server (Version 1) to a Linux alternative. Since then, I have […]

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Finding a replacement for Windows Home Server

July 29, 2013 Dana H 8

Hello, everyone! It’s great to be back in the hot seat for this, our third installment of The Linux Experiment. I know that last time […]

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Installing Bluetooth devices on Kubuntu

July 27, 2013 Kayla O 1

This is actually a much easier process than I imagined it would be. First: Ensure your devices (mouse, headphones, keyboard, etc…) are charged and turned […]

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Dual Booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 on a Lenovo Y400 IdeaPad

July 27, 2013 Jon F 1

With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]

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