The ramblings of a computer geek
During some upcoming changes I needed to test a mobile application to use a test IP address for a standard hostname. Problem is, I didn’t want to root my Android phone to be able edit the hosts file. There are apps such as “Hosts Go”, but in my case these didn’t work. On a normal […]
More...Had a little bit of trouble with this Micro-HDMI to VGA Adapter when trying to use it with Kali Linux, the Raspberry Pi would appear to boot up, but no picture was displayed. The solution was pretty straightforward, from another machine I opened the config.txt file and uncommented the following lines: The saved the file […]
More...I’ve always needed to be able to connect into my home network remotely for one reason or another, so wanted a quick, secure and cheap VPN solution to do the trick. If you’re only going to have a handful of users connected at one time something like a Raspberry Pi is ideal for the job, […]
More...The Raspberry Pi lacks a real time clock, which means that the time can drift, so much so that NTP fails to update the software clock because its skewed so much. To resolve this you can do the following: Add this to /etc/ntp.conf: tinker panic 0 That will cause ntpd to sync despite the large […]
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