I recently purchase several Jasco/GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Smart Switches for use with my VeraPlus Z-Wave Controller. I could NOT get the new smart switches to pair with the controller. I describe two separate techniques I successfully used to pair these switches with VeraPlus. Here are the specific products I am using. These are NOT referral […]
I take MANY photos (5000+ per year) at events with family and friends. I like to share all of these photos and definitely don’t want to lose them! I subscribed to SmugMug in February 2014 because their service seemed to solve two major problems for me: I wanted to share a majority of photos with […]
When I upgraded to Debian 10, IPsec VPN connections from Windows 10 clients to our Debian 10 VPN server stopped working. It seems that Windows is configured to use MODP_1024 (DH Group 2), but Debian 10 is requiring MODP_2048 (DH Group 14) or better. Here’s the relevant output from /var/log/daemon.log showing the “received proposals” from […]
Upgrading Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster) did not provide a smooth Icinga upgrade in my experience. Maybe the process would have gone more smoothly if I had updated my Icinga apt repo source file from stretch to buster before my OS upgrade from Debian 9 to Debian 10 instead of after? Debian removed […]
Upgrading Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster) did not provide a smooth Cacti upgrade from 0.8.8h to 1.2.2 in my experience. Debian automatically upgraded my packages, but was unable to handle the database upgrade when I visited the web interface after the upgrade. First, I was presented with an error during the database upgrade […]