Natural Born Coder

Author: doozer

  • Using Your MikroTik Router with Sky / Now TV Broadband

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    I recently switch to Sky / Now TV broadband from Plusnet. I’d been with Plusnet for many years and while they started out as a fairly decent company with some well priced offerings as they have grown they have become worse and worse. The customer service has slipped and the prices have risen. My contract…

  • Fixing the Proxmox VE “zpool create failed: exit code 1” problem

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    Right at the outset I want to say I’m quite new to ZFS at the time I write this so do your own homework. Anyway, I was trying to create a RAIDZ array on my test server which is currently running Proxmox 7.3. I set up the array using the interface provided and it threw…

  • Flash Memory Plugin for OpenMediaVault

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    If you are installing OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi chances are you are running the operating system off an SD card. SD cards are great for read only access by they will quickly wear out and die if they get a lot of writes. OMV causes a lot of write operations when generating the graphics…

  • Adding an Storage Drive and SMB Share to OpenMediaVault on Raspberry Pi

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    In an earlier article we installed OMV and did the most basic set up. In this article we’ll add a storage drive. This article assumes you have a Raspberry Pi 4 with OMV 6 installed and working correctly. We’ll be attaching a USB hard drive which has an NTFS partition on it. Attaching a Drive…

  • Installing OpenMediaVault (OMV) on a Raspberry Pi

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    OpenMediaVault (OMV) is an open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. It ships as a distribution but you can also install just the packages if you have a suitable base system (Debian essentially) which is what we’ll be doing here. OMV has a web based interface that can be used to configure almost all aspects…

  • Permanently Mount a Drive on Raspberry Pi

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    Working on your Raspberry Pi from the inserted SD card is fine for some applications but if you want to store a significant amount of data or perform more intensive IO operations then you’re going to need to attach an external hard drive. Connecting a drive over USB3 should mean you get a decent throughput…

  • Running Docker on a Raspberry Pi

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    Docker has, for a lot of cases, become the go to way to install and run certain services. Docker is a container system which means it comes with all the advantages of containers such as ease of installation, resource management and security. Docker is also fairly low overhead so it’s possible to run a number…

  • Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Raspberry Pi

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    In an earlier article I configured a Raspberry Pi to accept SSH logins using keys rather than passwords all the while working from a Windows 10 machine. In this article I’ll do the same but working from another Raspberry Pi machine. Although I’m using a Raspberry Pi here this process, or something very much like…

  • Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Windows

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    This guide assumes you have a Raspberry Pi already installed e.g. you can log in and see either a command prompt or the desktop. This guide will make use of the command line. I’m setting up a headless server as I write this and working on a Windows 10 machine. All key generation and configuration…

  • Setting up a L2TP VPN on a MikroTik Router

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    I’m running a MikroTik RouterBOARD 962UiGS-5HacT2HnT with a level 4 license. This set up should work on any level 3 or higher licensed version of RouterOS which I think is now all of them. I’m setting this up using WinBox, it can also be done using the web interface and the command line. Add an…

  • Tabs Outliner Backup and Restore

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    I use a browser extension called Tabs Outliner and it’s absolutely great for organising your browsing. You can simply create a window full of tabs and close and then restore it later. I have literally thousands of tabs stored this way and have given up on bookmarks entirely (other than for the toolbar). The only…

  • The Wonder that is FFmpeg

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    I’ve recently discovered FFmpeg and I’m absolutely blown away how good it is. In the past when I’ve had to encode video I’ve generally used Handbrake but at the end of the day this is just a wrapper over the top of FFmpeg. If you’re willing to learn the commands necessary to drive FFmpeg directly…