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Bengies Top 10 2022
 Bengies Top 10 2022As in past years, I take a look at movies I've watched at the Bengies Drive-In near Baltimore. The theatre is a relic of the post-WW2 U.S. boom years, where cars and movies could...
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Another Zabbix chapter: software upgrade, hardware downgrade.
I started using Zabbix about a year ago, trying to get it running on the Raspberry Pi "platform." I wanted to deploy a different OS than the standard Raspbian, and went through tests on NetBSD,...
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NetBSD 10 Beta installs and testing from i386 to ARM
I've run NetBSD for quite some time, going back to the days of Dr. Dobbs magazine and the release of the BSD4-based 386BSD (which I installed from floppy disks...). The chance of beta testing the...
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Zabbix migrations, in place / out of place
I've had Zabbix running on PostgreSQL for over a year now it seems, and during that time Zabbix has released a couple major updates, and I've tried to build the newest servers and agents I could on a...
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32/64-Bit and NetBSD 10 BETA
 I've had "Pentium" type machine for decades, starting with using NetBSD 0.9 on a 386 or 486 in 1997?, and now, trying out various processors and systems for beta testing 10.0.Initially, one...
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Upsizing a Pi Zero (2W) to a Pi 3 Footprint
Recently I learned, and was intrigued, by two products from WaveShare, both enabling a small footprint Raspberry Pi Zero (2W in my case) to fill a Raspberry Pi 3 case by including a suite of adapters,...
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Beta Testing NetBSD 10; the Intermittent Result Set
After running sets of tests on the NetBSD 10.0 beta release, I had opened about 2 dozen problem reports of varying severity, and thought it time to take stock. Some have been closed, many have...
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Mini vision quest upstream
 I intended to test getting elevations as well as latitude/longitude with a slightly betterthan my Coolpix along a stream/drainage channel. Ended up seeing a small vision of what the streambed looked...
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Tiling for Geo Map Referencing in QGIS
 Q GISJPEG to TIFF to PDF QGIS on X11I needed to convert a JPEG image into a georeferenced PDF, which I was able to do, finding things to fix later along the path.The issue with starting at the top is...
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QGIS tutorial torture track
 I tried to follow the QGIS Forestry tutorial (link below) on a couple Raspberry Pi's (would have liked to use only one but meh). I got up to vector-to-polygon and then stalled on the first day...
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Saga of QGIS Tutorial--NetBSD stumble at the finish line
Previously*, I wrangled QGis version 3.28 or better on Raspberry Pi's trying to complete pertinent tutorial lessons and hitting local software application limits. I had success with OpenSUSE and...
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Avenza on the Trail
I got to use the Avenza-hosted Reservation map for the first time onsite in early December 2023 while winter camping with a Scout troop. They needed basic map and compass tutoring, and adding the...
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NetBSD 10 RC1 Review
 Upgrades from earlier 10.0 beta images went easily except for the Raspberry Pi systems with the kernel in a different place.  WIFIamd – externali386 - nonepi4 – no wifi, hard-wire okpi3 – no wifi;...
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Bengies Top 10 for 2023, Barely
O, 2023, what happened?Besides getting older and slower, the Bengies drive-in movie theatre had bad weather (fog, in December?) and a slew of R-rated flicks we skipped and a few kiddie flicks also...
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Revamp Unboxing SAP Community 2024
The SAP Community site revamp of 2024 is ongoing and promises to be unveiled Tuesday so here are my predictions on Monday.At the moment blog reads increment on reload questions do not. Implying more...
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Turning "Meats and Bounds" into a Map
I came across a section of a scanned municipal blueprint, finding an inset map labelled with "Meats & Bounds", an obvious misspelling of the surveying phrase "Meets & Bounds", the term for...
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Well Sample Data and GIS Development
 I looked at water quality tests for a few private wells in Maryland to be able to better use GIS tools. After reviewing public information I took note of key fields such as well depth. In order to...
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Screen Scraping GIS Tax Ditch Lines Substandard
Better to get the GIS data someone else has already digitized than to try to digitize from a screenshot. That is what I tried a few months back before I found better source data recently delineating...
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WHERE clause, or FILTER? QGis and small databases
Continuing with getting more QGIS skills, I planned to run the tutorial for changing symbols based on rules or other data conditions. Before I got there, I found a treasure trove of GIS data feeds from...
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NetBSD 10 Beta, RC1-6 and Pi Wifi and A/V
 Complex title, just to say how stable and feature-rich is NetBSD 10 on a Raspberry Pi (4)?Pretty good, not bad, can't complain.WirelessAt one time during RC (release candidate) testing I had wi-fi...
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Weather. Or Knot.
A while back I started using Rasberry Pi systems to monitor environmental data around the house. I tried several "hats" that included different sensors. Most read temperature; some could check...
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Wifi Coverage on BSD Raspberry Flavour
Now that NetBSD 10 is released (for a few weeks) I have been reviewing tests I ran, benchmarking and other studies, trying to fix the dangling problem reports I opened, and mainly using the OS for as...
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Zabbix Front End Realignment After Downtime
Typical summer thunderstorms cause occasional power grid outages, some short, some long. With a battery backup a blip can have minimal repercussions, longer down times are opportunities to move...
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Flipping Zabbix from NetBSD to FreeBSD
 I wanted to upgrade my Zabbix server running on a NetBSD amd64 host and at almost the same time install NetBSD on an NVME card instead of SSD. The mainboard has no graphics, so I played hit-or-miss...
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Third and inches
 The football expression is fourth and inches, so this is not a sport tale. Making a loom required 3 teeth per inch to get 19 across a 7 inch span conforming to the available loops. Imperial scale...
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