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How to use your Raspberry …

Intro

In my last post, I walked you through the basic setup and Operating System install of a Raspberry Pi. Now lets move onto making it a NAS/Media Centre device.

I actually went down 2 different paths - initially I went with OpenMediaVault and reverted to a my previous setup when I encountered …

How to use your Raspberry …

Intro

I recently replaced my Raspberry Pi 3B+ NAS/Media Centre with a Raspberry Pi 4B+ and it occurred to me that others may want to do likewise, so here goes.

Why a Raspberry Pi?

In truth theres a few reasons:

  • When I first done this on my Raspberry Pi 3B, I was frustrated by limitations (lack of …

VS Code: Dialog PopUnder …

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Intro

I recently hit upon an annoying problem when using VS Code and wanted to share with you how I worked around it.

The Problem

I was trying to run some powershell commands against Azure Active Directory using the AzureAD Powershell module to query and …

Azure: Context is king

Image by mohammad takhsh on Unsplash

Intro

A quick post just to get me back into the routine, and to cover off an issue that I encountered recently, and how to resolve it.

The problem

I hadn’t done anything in Azure at home for a while and tonight I wanted to manage some VMs of mine from AZ …

Handle website redirects …

In my last post, I mentioned that I’d hit a little snag when I was migrating my live site over to my new architecture.

When I built my test site it always used a subdomain (beta.cirriustech.co.uk) so I never had any issue with DNS.

However, when I migrated my live site over, I had built it …

New site now live!

Much later than planned, I’ve completed the cutover to my new Hugo static site in production, as written about in my last post.

A number of factors delayed it. Mostly private, which I won’t go into here, but also some technical ones too that I put aside for a while due to the above. …