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Streaming from Pi backyard camera
Live streaming video from a Raspberry Pi as a backyard public camera using software named 'motion'
September 22, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson24 minutes
Tip for Windows 11 on Libvirt/KVM
Getting good performance with Windows 11 Pro running under Libvirt/KVM on Linux requires some special configs, especially if one wants to enable WSL2 (which requires 'Nested virtualization'). This is a brief cheatsheet on the required configuration.
June 19, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes
Bare metal cloud-init
A guide to using a Debian cloud image and cloud-init on a bare-metal host for fast deployment. The base configuration is very basic and aims to act like an OVH Debian 12 (Bookworm) dedicated server base configuration.
February 18, 2023 by Daniel F Dickinson12 minutes
Using XCA to create private SSL certificates
This article details using the XCA GUI for creating private SSL certificates for enabling end-to-end SSL on non-public servers.
May 12, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes
Raspberry Pi OS as a server
You may find yourself in need of a 'bare metal' server. If the workload is not too demanding, a Raspberry Pi can be a good choice.
September 8, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson19 minutes
Docker network: LAN to container
When using Docker to containerize internal services like Samba, LLMNR, or mDNS a.k.a Bonjour one may find that the standard Docker model of using specific unicast ports forwards, is insufficient.
February 21, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Gitea Pi
This article describes setting up a Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a private Gitea (lightweight Git hosting) server.
May 16, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson10 minutes
Pi Unbound: The gift of DoT
Keeping your DNS queries from your local network to public DNS servers private in transit by using DNS over TLS on a Raspberry Pi is ridiculously easy.
December 20, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson7 minutes
Real life SystemD timers
Most blog entries on SystemD timers give trivial samples. This article takes a different approach and provides the full details of two examples of using SystemD timers that are in active use.
March 7, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes
No backscatter email alias relay
Setting up an email relay that aliases addresses in various domains to a specific offsite user doesn't have to mean backscatter. Here is one solution.
August 9, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes