Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Changed Dynamic Domain Provider
When I got notice of (another) price increase from Dyn.com, I knew it was time to change back to a free provider. After reviewing a few alternatives, I settled on No-IP.com. I settled on rklingler.ddns.net as the new domain for this site, and confirmed it was working. I then quickly (perhaps too quickly) terminated my…
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WordPress iPhone App Stats Fix
One of my favorite features of the WordPress iPhone app is the ability to add a small stats widget which shows the number of visitors and views of one WordPress site for that day. However, for years, no matter what I did within the application, the site that would be shown on my iPhone was…
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PressPi Hacked!
My WordPress installation on my Raspberry Pi was hacked several months ago, and I think I’m still trying to undo the file effects. On a semi-regular basis, although by no means based on anything obvious, the site breaks again. It always seems to be a new line of code (that I can’t decipher) in the…
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RetroPie Command Line Improvements
First, I recommend the general raspberry pi command line upgrades that I’ve previously written about. Second, I like to add three command line shortcuts to quickly allow restarting Emulation Station, running RetroPie Setup, or quitting Emulation Station from the command line. (Quitting Emulation Station from the command line is particularly useful in the SSH context,…
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Tools I Use – Due App
Some say it takes 30 days to develop a habit. That may be right, but I prefer to just have my iPhone (and Apple Watch) automatically remind me (and not give up) to undertake certain actions. For this, I use the Due application. I currently have nine reminders set up in the application. A few…
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Tools I Use – Day One Journal
In the first of hopefully a number of posts, I thought it would be useful to write about some of the tools that I use on a regular basis. I know I find it useful when I read others suggest tools that are particularly useful, and no reason I shouldn’t contribute for others that may…
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Best VNC Server for Raspberry Pi
In configuring my Google Calendar Raspberry Pi, I found that x11vnc was more useful than TightVNC, primarily because it allowed me to mirror my local desktop image to my computer. Install and Set Password sudo apt-get install x11vnc x11vnc -storepasswd
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A Fourth Raspberry Pi – Ad Blocking Throughout Home Network
Installed Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi Model B this weekend. Initially installed using DietPi (which looks awesome, and I intend to play with more soon), but then redid with the official Raspbian Jessie Lite image and the instructions on the Pi-Hole website. Because of U-Verse’s networking requirements (including the use of AT&T’s DNS servers), DNS…
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A Three Raspberry Pi Home
We are currently running three Raspberry Pi’s in our house. The first is a Pi 2, running in our garage, and acting as our general home server. It acts as a NAS device (running SAMBA) for backups and hosting video files, a torrent seed box (with remote access) and the server for this WordPress installation.…
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Raspberry Pi WordPress Crash
For the third or fourth time in the last two years (or so), my Raspberry Pi WordPress installation has crashed. Once I was able to fix relatively quickly, with little or no data loss. The others… not so much. I even had a full backup on my latest installation… I thought. Trying to use that…
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