Information, tools, and resources for aviation, computing, and other topics that interest me.
My opinions change in the light of fresh knowledge and experience.
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time - 2018 Jul 01
I could not find code that I liked for timing how long we hold a button attached to a pi. I rolled my own. Probably not the fastest, or most elegant, but hopefully simple and useful.
I use this for a single button that will reboot or shutdown a pi depending on how long I hold the button. My first python script for some years but it works as intended.
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red sector a - 2018 Mar 03
I found this annoying message in my Raspberry Pi
/var/log/messages:Mar 3 06:10:01 raspberrypi3b rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 17' suspended, next retry is Sat Mar 3 06:11:31 2018 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ]More than one way to fix this and we can start here..
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don't walk away - 2018 Mar 02
I run a Raspberry Pi VPN router. I want it to reboot automatically when it looses the WAN connection, as it does from time to time.
There are a few ways to do this - this is a simple way. Thank you We Work We Play.
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constant motion - 2018 Feb 27
The itch: better formatted METAR and TAF in my phone browser. The scratch: a script to get weathers and format a web page that displays acceptably in my phone browser.
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the song remains the same - 2017 Jun 25
I used to custom build my own desktop computers. I built the last one in 2003. Recently I started to use the Raspberry Pi as a WiFi router and that got me thinking about building another desktop computer. I built a mediocre machine to get up to speed with the current technology and to keep the cost down.
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