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Since this video was made, the process has changed just a bit. The docker-compose now includes a Maria DB database, but overall it will works just as well. I did, however have to delete my old config folder, and start fresh.  I've shown you several differen...

Warning! Sadly, after the making of this video, RealVNC purchased RPort, and closed sourced it almost immediately. RPort is no longer available as an open source project. As promised, I'm posting the chart I've made here.  This chart compares the features o...

Many times I've wished I had better access to a desktop machine when in various odd places... Maybe I had an iPad, or my phone, but really needed a desktop machine in order to do some specific work that is, simply put, just easier with a regular Linux machin...

Seafile is a beautifully simple, and yet really powerful syncing and drive application that you can run on your own hardware, allowing you to maintain control of your data.  It gets back to the simplest concepts of data syncing, and drive usage. If you've b...

MStream is an open source, self hosted music streaming server with an Android companion app, and an iOS app on the way.  You can stream through your web browser, as well as use the streaming service in Jukebox mode.  An alternative to the Subsonic / Airsonic...

As we've moved away from the office over the past 2 years now, it's become even more important to have a good means of interaction with our co-workers.  Many of us have started late week meetings in the afternoon to just chit-chat, or talk about anything but...

Kutt.it is a great little application.  It was suggested by a subscriber, and I really have like it.  It's got a simple, clean interface, and does exactly what you expect from a link shortening application. Installation is pretty straight forward, and like ...

My previous video ona a database amnagement tool was on MySQL Workbench, and got a pretty good response.  I did, however, have quite a few poeple ask about using it with Postgres SQL, which can be done, but is not super easy, and really not what the tool is ...

For years I've worked with MySQL / MariaDB.  It's an incredible open source database offering that allows those of us with no extra money to spend on ridiculously difficult and silly licenses for such monstrous things as Microsoft SQL Server.   My use has be...

Top is a command  line application that shows you system information like CPU, RAM (memory), and Network usage, as well as an ordered listing of your currently running processes and their system utilization with regard to CPU, RAM, and more. Top is an excel...

Get Wavemon Wavemon is a simple utility made in nCurses (a para-GUI written for the terminal window).  Other such tools are nMon, cTop, etc. You can find the wavemon project on github at https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon To install Wavemon on a Debian / U...

Why? Why use a text expander?  If you have a job, any job, that requires you to re-type the same templated type text, over and over, and ove, then a text expander is a tool you should be using. It simply does exactly what the name implies.  It expands text...

There are a lot of great open source options for inventory management out there.  I want to start with one that I found recently called Homebox.  It is really a great conceptual bit of software, and it has some really great features that can make it very eas...

I've been asked several times to install InvoiceNinja, and no matter how I tried, it never seemed to work, but gave errors in the log every single time.  So, I started looking for other open source invoicing solutions.  I tried a bunch of them.  Invoice Lion...

I've covered multiple video surveillance options over the past year or so: Shinobi, Zoneminder, MotionEyeOS, Frigate, and they all have their pros and cons.  I was talking about some issues Zoneminder was generating on a network with Scott over at Scottibyte...

File compression isn't an overly glamorous topic, but when you stop to think about it, it's a topic well worth discussing.  We don't even think about it these days.  You download a .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, or .7z file and sometimes your OS (MacOS in particular...

Whoogle Search is an open source, self hosted Google search with teh ads, and a bunch of other junk-ware, stripped out of it.  It really brings you back to a top notch search experience with more privacy in mind. I found this little gem while talking with S...