#computers
6 posts tagged computers. All tags
Koken SSL Issue, Resolved
Koken does all kinds of strange things on an SSL-only nginx site — logins fail, settings won't save, themes won't apply. After a lot of debugging it came down to one line of config.
My Ambilight, My Obsession, My Curse
A long, rambling dump of a year's worth of obsessing over my DIY ambilight: every way people build them, why none of them do what I actually want, and the 4k HDCP wall I keep hitting. No TL;DR, sorry.
Crouching Slave, Hidden Master
Overhauling my home DNS, I switched from BIND to NSD and set up a hidden master — the public name servers answer queries while the box that actually edits the zones stays private. I am no networking guru; this was new to me too.
Unicode Font Issue in Windows
Certain Unicode glyphs rendered fine in Chrome but came up as boxes in Notepad++ and MobaXterm. It came down to Windows font fallback, fixed by hand-editing the registry SystemLink keys. Reg file included.
SSL in Nginx using Let's Encrypt
A working how-to for putting Let's Encrypt SSL on nginx using the manual webroot method, since the plugin was broken. Covers the acme-challenge config, generating certs, and a systemd timer for automatic renewal.
Building a Linux HTPC
Building a budget media center PC and trying to run Linux on it, until Blu-ray DRM and Silverlight streaming forced me to scrap the whole install for Windows. As much as it pains me to admit, Windows just does this better.