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Information, tools, and resources for aviation, computing, and other topics that interest me.

My opinions change in the light of fresh knowledge and experience.

• 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..

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• rolling the dice - 2017 Jun 06

  I found Diceware a few months ago: I am a late starter!

I removed some older items in updates. I can provide you with archived information on request.