While there are many solutions for remote access to a home network, such as TailScale or other VPNs, my needs are much more simple; only needing SSH access back to a single workstation.

As I already have a host with a static address on the internet from Digital Ocean, lets …

As I don’t care for the noise of an optical drive while going to sleep, have been transcoding a few favorite DVDs to USB sticks.

ffmpeg is a versatile tool, but does not support import directly from DVD media.

mplayer does however, and can stream dump.

#!/bin/bash

function …

Finally picked up an IrDA transciver based on mcs7780 chipset for getting Subsurface working with our Lunas. had a bunch of trouble getting it working with Linux, but found a wonderful walkthrough at kartadmin that laid out how to get it all working.

quote for quick reference:

1. Download and install …

In a previous life, I had built and deployed a partial yum mirror to speed up, and simplify, kick starting and deployment of supporting packages for an application stack. since there were multiple upstream yum repos that needed to be consulted (centos base, couchbase, epel, pgsql, etc), it made sense …