I’ve recently acquired an old HP EliteBook Revolve 810 G3 and wanted to reset that to the factory state. Luckily, this already supports HP’s Cloud Recovery feature where you can download the recovery image from the Internet and write it to a USB drive. There’s even a choice between Windows 7 and Windows 10. However,… Read More »
After adding a new penguin to my zoo and moving around a few services, I had the need to re-route HTTPS traffic to a different host for doing all the SSL handling (which would then send a request back – but via HTTP on a different port). The simplest way to do this is to… Read More »
To quickly setup an FTP server or SMB share using a Docker container instead of fiddling with the system daemons, I’ve found these: FTP For bringing up an FTP server, I’ve found Gareth Flower’s vsftpd container: Here, it’s important to also map ports 40000 – 40009 for PASV FTP to work. The container automatically creates… Read More »
Several years ago, I had a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch for a while. I’ve turned that into a D2 Delta watch to unlock all possible features. During that time, I also switched from my beloved BlackBerry KEY2 Android phone to an iPhone. And as a former fan of Google Health, I liked the way… Read More »
I’m a data hoarder. And as such I still have email conversations going back to 2003. To not clog up my provider’s disk space and, because I don’t want to donate all these old conversations to Google, I’ve setup my own email archive using dovecot. Early versions ran natively on one of my Raspberry Pis,… Read More »
I usually have a few SMB shares from my NAS mounted on my Raspberry Pis. However, I rarely need to actually use them and scripts only need them once a day (backup). So I figured: Why let the OS bother with keeping those mounts active all day long when there’s a better way? Cue autofs.… Read More »
My private SSH key is ancient. And thus it still was in the “old” RSA format, recognisable by the header: This never was an issue. Everything works fine. Until now. While trying out GitFinder, it just didn’t want to accept my id_rsa file and always came back with “invalid format”. I’ve also made sure to… Read More »
After moving to a new place, I had to put my ADS-B handling Raspberry Pi 2B into a cupboard far from any network connection. So I’ve plugged in a cheap USB WiFi dongle and connected it to my WiFi. However, I don’t know whether it’s the dongle or something specific to the RasPi2’s USB implementation,… Read More »
I’m using a ConBee II Zigbee stick by Dresden Elektronik but switched from their own Phoscon/deCONZ software to the Home Assistant ZHA integration. While I didn’t have any issues with my few Zigbee devices, today, I’ve noticed that there’s a newer firmware available for my ConBee stick. Usually, the firmware update is handled by the… Read More »
Back when I bought my Nintendo Switch, I made sure to buy an unpatched one – turning all the different boxes in the store upside down to read the serial number on the bottom and compare it with the list I had on my phone. However, apart from some experiments with SX OS and later… Read More »