When building out an environment of any kind, you need to have a good starting base, a strong foundation and the same holds true for many things. It's no different when building a virtual machine (VM) template to deploy in your environment in a repeatable fashion. Recently I spent some time developing a generalized/sanitized VM template for Red... Continue Reading →
Debian 8 Jessie sources.list, missing installation sources.
Each time I install Debian Jessie or Debian 8 I notice that I can not install any software packages afterwards. I'm not sure if it is me, or the installation media, but the sources.list is missing entries. Recently I tried installing xrdp, which allows Windows OS machines to RDP into Linux OS machines. Commands such... Continue Reading →
Install and Configure OpenVPN on OSMC/Kodi
Let's face it, Kodi is pretty popular right now, everyone is talking about it. One of the first things I did after I installed OSMC on my Raspberry Pi was to configure OpenVPN. There is a little bit of work involved so I figured I'd share what I did to get it up and running!... Continue Reading →