Open exchange, open doors, open minds: A recipe for global progress
Could open organization principles successfully apply to entire societies? That’s the question I asked as I read the book Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg, which aims to examine the relative success of “open societies” throughout global history. read more Powered by...
Collect sudo session recordings with the Raspberry Pi
I’ve used the sudo command for years, and one of my favorite features is how it saves a record of everything happening in a terminal while running a command. This feature has been available for over a decade. However, sudo 1.9 introduced central session recording collection, allowing you to check all administrative access to your hosts on your network at a single location and play back sessions like a movie. read more Powered by...
22 Raspberry Pi projects to try in 2022
The possibilities for Raspberry Pi projects continue to perpetuate this Pi Day! The beloved single-board computer recently turned ten years old. To celebrate, we put together a list of recent Raspberry Pi tutorials written by members of the Opensource.com community. read more Powered by...
Use your Raspberry Pi as a data logger
Data logging can be done for various reasons. In a previous article, I wrote about how I monitor the electricity consumption of my household. The Raspberry Pi platform is a perfect match for such applications as it allows communication with many kinds of analog and digital sensors. This article shows how to log the CPU temperature of a Raspberry Pi and create a spreadsheet-based report on demand. Logging the CPU temperature...
Understanding the Digital World: My honest book review
I read a lot of books. I especially like to read books about computers, Linux, and the digital world we live in. I also enjoy reading books on the history of computing about and by and the people who helped make this digital world what it is today. read more Powered by...
How I run my blog on a Raspberry Pi
Like a lot of folks who enjoy tinkering with technology, I now have a small but growing collection of Raspberry Pi boxes around my house. I’ve used them for various projects: A PiHole network ad blocker, an OctoPi 3D print server, and a Minecraft server, among others. However, the most custom project I’ve done is setting up a Raspberry Pi to act as a web server to host my own blog site, mandclu.com. I got the idea while...
