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Overcoming power supply …

Intro In my first post in my Raspberry Pi NAS series, I mentioned I had issues with my external hard drives and had to buy an external (powered) USB hub, but I didn’t elaborate further. What’s The Issue? Among the many changes from its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 4 now uses USB-C as …

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 Bug and how to live with it
VS Code: Dialog PopUnder …

Image by James Wainscoat on Unsplash 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
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 …

Job Interviews in 2020 - …

Introduction In my last post, I talked about the background to my recent job search, and the start of the process in terms of interview preparation - taking time to really get to know yourself! With that done, you are now in a better position to begin to think about how you put your best self …