Haack's Networking – Page 2 – Education and Technology with a focus on Free Software.

Working around the HP Plugin Checksum Issue

October 3, 2022Haack's NetworkingUncategorizedLeave a comment

hp-plugin Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking webmaster@haacksnetworking.org //hp-plugin// Sourceforge hp-plugin website has been down for some time. So, to install the plug-in manually, download the plugin and the signature to the same directory as follows: wget https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run|hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run wget https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run.asc|hplip-3.21.12-plugin.run.asc Make sure both of the files are executable by the system once you got them downloaded as…

Installing Windows 11 in virt-manager on a Debian-based machine

July 30, 2022Haack's Networkingfreesoftware / hacking / leisure / sysadminLeave a comment

windows11-vm Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking webmaster@haacksnetworking.org //windows11-vm// Alright, so to make Windows 11 work on a GNU/Linux VM with virt-manager you need UEFI-based secure boot and a TPM module. Here’s what I did after searching online for a few days. First, set up a TPM module on your host OS: sudo apt -y install dpkg-dev…

Migrating from a VPS to a Data Center

November 7, 2021July 26, 2022Haack's NetworkingUncategorizedLeave a comment

vmserver Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com What? I put a large physical host at a data center in Northern New Mexico. I purchased a few blocks of ip4 addresses, and set up virt-manager to run guest OSs for my business and other projects. Put simply, I was creating virtualized infrastructure on a physical host I…

NM Community Big Blue Button Project

March 31, 2021Haack's Networkingfreeschooling / freesoftwareLeave a comment

NM Educators and greater learning community, I am pleased to announce the resumption of the NM Community Big Blue Button Project. I will use this page to update those with whom we test the server of our current status. At present, I have purchased a new domain, set up a vanilla instance with TLS, basic…

Pihole on the Beagle Bone Black

February 28, 2021October 31, 2021Haack's Networkingeducation / freesoftware4 Comments

piholeonblack Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com //piholeonblack// This tutorial instructs users on how to get a vanilla pihole instance functioning on the Beagle Bone Black. Please remember that my blog posts age, but my original Wiki post for this will receive updates as software/distributions/configurations change etc. Also, I don’t cover why to install a DNS…

NM Fight Club

August 5, 2020Haack's Networkingfreesoftware / leisure / pokemongoLeave a comment

Okay … so, yes, taking a break from formal IT work for the dissertation, but I have a lot of work to do – and relaxation is required. To relax, I often play Pokémon Go. Although Pokémon Go is not Free Software, it is a very fun game.. Moreover, the surrounding community is steeped in…

Business Activities

August 5, 2020Haack's Networkingeducation / freesoftwareLeave a comment

I am temporarily ceasing business activities for Haack’s Networking while I complete my Ed.D. at University of New Mexico in Educational Leadership. Feel free to email me if you have questions, but I will not be accepting orders/clients at this time. When I resume activities after I defend, I will post an announcement here. Thanks…

The difficulties with licensing your work; a critique of free cultural works

May 2, 2020Haack's Networkingedleadership / education / freeschooling / freesoftwareLeave a comment

The first difficulty to address is why the open education community accepts the non-commercial license as non-free. For starters, there is an essay at Freedom Defined arguing not only why these licenses are non-free, but how they actually make the “situation worse than the traditional copyright model.” They then go on to state the reasons…

NM Community BigBlueButton Project

May 2, 2020Haack's Networkingedleadership / education / freeschooling / freesoftware / LiDA603Leave a comment

NM Education Leaders, Status update: alpha testing only, server broken, audio/video down, screen sharing still up open to public (05-02-20; 09:26pm)Status update: server on hiatus until STUN malfunction and browser inter-operability issues are fixed (Winter 2020) I have created a NM Community Big Blue Button instance and it is open for testing. The NM Community…

AirSonic 10.6.1 & ListenBrainz

April 19, 2020Haack's Networkingeducation / freeschooling / freesoftwareLeave a comment

It is with great joy that I report that the new api for listenbrainz.org works flawlessly with AirSonic 10.6.1 – this is amazing and returns me to the early days of AudioScrobbler (I imported the last 10 years since last reset of history) but with Free Software flavor … amazing … https://listenbrainz.org/user/oemb1905 #freesoftware #hackingprojects #gnulinux…