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This is the final show in the miniseries on how to manage your RaspberryPis with ansible. The goal is to produce a common base Raspberry Pi OS image that doesn't change often but, once it's installed, can automatically be customized, maintained, and managed remotely. We will create the base image using the script fix-ssh-on-pi which is available on GitHub...

The two HPR hosts based in Edinburgh got together over Mumble on the evening of Sunday 23rd August 2020 to have a chat during the COVID-19 pandemic. MrX Dave Morriss This is the second half of the conversation. For the first part see HPR show 3167...

I bought - and ate - a jar of Soylent, which is a powdered food replacement product. These are my thoughts. Company Website: https://soylent.com/ Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement)

Color Tools are where you can adjust the colors and brightness of an image.You can change the color balance, adjust individual colors or transparency without affecting other colors, and so on. This is the fourth of the four general groups of tools we will look at for GIMP. There will also be some miscellaneous tools. Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/ https://osdn.net/projects/separate-plus/ http://learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/hue-value-saturation/ https://en.wikipedia...

All music in this episode is freely available from musopen.org. Links Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor 'Moonlight Sonata', Op. 27 no. 2 Beethoven Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Chopin Fantaisie - Impromptu, Op. 66 Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor 'Pathetique', Op. 13 Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major 'Waldstein', Op. 53

FreeBSD Jails with iocage Introduction FreeBSD jails allow users to run multiple, isolated instances of FreeBSD on a single server. Iocage simplifies the management of FreeBSD Jails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization The jails will be configured to bind to an IP address on the jail host's internal network. The host OS will pass traffic from the external network to the jail. The jails will be managed with Iocage...

Introduction Once again the two HPR hosts based in Edinburgh got together over Mumble to have a chat during the COVID-19 pandemic. MrX Dave Morriss We recorded this conversation in the evening of Sunday 23rd August 2020. The audio was quite long when we’d finished, so we decided to cut it into two similar-length pieces and the remainder is released as a second episode...

I came up with a way to easily clone a repo living on Github and mirror it, with all the latest commits, on another Git host. You can schedule Ansible to run periodically to ensure your mirror stays updated. This is Dwayne Lee's improved implementation based on my original script.

I decided to use my time spent in relative isolation to do something productive and learn another language. I picked Spanish because I am hoping to visit Mexico and other Latin American countries whenever the plague lifts. I decided to document this for anyone who wants to know what options I found and how they have worked for me so far. This is the second part of my tools exploration. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3iaeeUxWOgUXFK6kfIp_Ig https://www.alllanguageresources...

I decided to use my time spent in relative isolation to do something productive and learn another language. I picked Spanish because I am hoping to visit Mexico and other Latin American countries whenever the plague lifts. I decided to document this for anyone who wants to know what options I found and how they have worked for me so far. https://www.babbel.com/ https://actualfluency.com/babbel-review/ https://www.trustpilot.com/review/babbel.com https://www.alllanguageresources...