Education and Technology with a focus on Free Software.
#hacking #freesoftware #gnulinux – as always check the wiki for the latest tutorial This tutorial is a bit simpler than the last one. I finally got tired of my email triggering recipients SPAM filters, and worse, I was sometimes flagged by other tech colleagues’ services because of my domains lacking these records. After a bit…
[UPDATE: Please use the Wiki post for this tutorial only as the images for this entry were lost (rather too tedious to relink)] First off, a big thanks to jason an geoff for helping me get this banged out – it was painful and tiring, but I got it working – and even better, I…
Fellow educators, free software hackers, and other community members, I have begun the #LiDA103 course and I am posting this new feed to see if syndication is working and to “declare myself.” Here goes! I am a math teacher at SF Community College, do contract work as an IT Consultant at Schaefer IT Consulting under…
How I found the OERu and a bit about why it matters … Today’s educational landscape is adopting technological innovations at every level. There is little discussion, however, about how we incorporate these tools into the educational microsystem, and less about which ones to use and why. As a result, districts, colleges, etc., are offering…
As always, please refer to the wiki for the latest version of this tutorial: rstudio. This tutorial is to set up rstudio on Debian. First, download and install the package: cd ~ sudo apt install r-base sudo apt install gdebi wget https://download2.rstudio.org/server/debian9/x86_64/rstudio-server-1.2.1335-amd64.deb sudo gdebi rstudio-server-1.2.1335-amd64.deb Make sure you already have an existing LAMP stack running…
#freesoftware #debian #encryption #luks This tutorial is designed to help folks set up an encrypted partition on Debian GNU/Linux and, optionally, to mount that crypt at the time of boot. I am copying and pasting the tutorial below as of today’s date, but as always, please note that these are entries that I live update…
#apachesurvival #debian #freesoftware #haackingclub #gnulinux Hey all, I extensively upgraded, reworded, and simplified apachesurvival, and put it and everything else in order so that you can proceed from setting up your LAMP stack with TLS, to creating some content management. I hope to add Django and some other tutorials to the bottom of this, including…
#haacksnetworking #haackingclub #freesoftware #gnulinux #debian Well, it was March when I last created a Nextcloud instance, and there have been extensive updates since then (two major versions), and Debian Stretch, has gone from 9.4 all the way to 9.9. At any rate, I was charged with creating a new instance on a VPS, and I…
#freesoftware #slackware #gnulinux This is a basic tutorial on setting up Slackware gnulinux and the live-update wiki entry can be found here. slackware Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com Install os, then add non-root user adduser Follow the prompts then join wheel group, then add these by using up arrow wheel,floppy,audio,video,cdrom,plugdev,power,netdev,lp,scanner Set up WPA2 network: nano…
#haacksnetworking #gnulinux #freesoftware #debian Today, I am sharing a new wiki post that documents how I remotely upgrade servers automatically. I was getting tired of entering the same commands over and over for each server. I scoured online sources and put them together in this fashion for my own use. I have reprinted the first…