Author: oemb1905

Math/CS Educator | 20+ years teaching & mentoring | Founder of Haack’s Networking, Floss IT Company | Hiker, writer, & historian | 🇷🇺 🇵🇱 🇩🇪 🇮🇱 😎

Working around the HP Plugin Checksum Issue

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hp-plugin Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking webmaster@haacksnetworking.org //hp-plugin// Sourceforge hp-plugin website has been down for some time. So, to install the plug-in manually, download the plugin and the signature to the same directory as follows: wget https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run|hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run wget https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run.asc|hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run.asc Make sure both of the files are executable by the system once you got them downloaded as…

Migrating from a VPS to a Data Center

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vmserver Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com What? I put a large physical host at a data center in Northern New Mexico. I purchased a few blocks of ip4 addresses, and set up virt-manager to run guest OSs for my business and other projects. Put simply, I was creating virtualized infrastructure on a physical host I…

Pihole on the Beagle Bone Black

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piholeonblack Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com //piholeonblack// This tutorial instructs users on how to get a vanilla pihole instance functioning on the Beagle Bone Black. Please remember that my blog posts age, but my original Wiki post for this will receive updates as software/distributions/configurations change etc. Also, I don’t cover why to install a DNS…

The difficulties with licensing your work; a critique of free cultural works

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The first difficulty to address is why the open education community accepts the non-commercial license as non-free. For starters, there is an essay at Freedom Defined arguing not only why these licenses are non-free, but how they actually make the “situation worse than the traditional copyright model.” They then go on to state the reasons…

AirSonic 10.6.1 & ListenBrainz

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It is with great joy that I report that the new api for listenbrainz.org works flawlessly with AirSonic 10.6.1 – this is amazing and returns me to the early days of AudioScrobbler (I imported the last 10 years since last reset of history) but with Free Software flavor … amazing … https://listenbrainz.org/user/oemb1905 #freesoftware #hackingprojects #gnulinux…

invoice plane

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This tutorial is for users of Debian who have already established a host with TLS/LAMP and want to create an InvoicePlane instance in order to create and send invoices to clients. If you have not yet completed TLS/LAMP, however, please begin with ApacheSurvival. (As always, please refer to the wiki for the latest changes/updates to…

network monitoring with munin

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This tutorial is for users of Debian who have already established a host with TLS/LAMP and want to create a Munin instance to monitor the host. If you have not yet completed that, please begin with ApacheSurvival. (As always, please refer to the Wiki post here for the latest instructions and documentation.) Okay, as long…

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