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Amateur radio, programming, computing, and life.

SSH Tunnels and Systemd

OpenSSH, hereinafter simply called SSH, is a protocol and set of programs most commonly known for secure access to remote computers that often is used to perform remote …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Mar 19, 2023

btrfs Magic

A few years back I purchased a FreedomBox Pioneer Edition HSK (HSK) to use as a dedicated server for various functions. The HSK is built around the Olimex A20-OLinuXino_LIME2 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Fri, Mar 10, 2023

25 Years of Linux as My Primary System

A personal anniversary of sorts slipped by me a few weeks ago. Such is life when tending to other obligations. I was catching up on news articles on Linux Weekly News (LWN) and saw …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Mon, Feb 6, 2023

1980s Connectivity From Rural Kansas via Amateur Radio

Recently (well, almost four months ago) fellow Kansan and radio amateur John Goerzen posted The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America to his blog. While reading through it …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Fri, Dec 16, 2022

Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Hugo

Almost twelve years ago I moved away from writing static Web pages and toward setting up a local WordPress installation on my Web host and adding new content in it. It has worked …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Mon, Dec 12, 2022