Hi, I’m Jim McDonnell, a senior Unix/Linux specialist and the author of this blog. I live in the South East of England. Get in touch through my LinkedIn page, or just leave a reply below. Cheers!
PS I’m available for hire, and this is CV.
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Er, Hi Mark, nice to meet you.
Hi Jim,
Thanks for posting the article on the home hub extender setup. This was really useful.
I’m intrigued as to the board game on your web banner/main image. Is this a chess set or a different Chinese board game? I really like the look of the baord set so if you remember what it is/where you bought it then I’d really like to know.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi Justin. The picture of the chess set is a standard image that comes with WordPress, the software that powers this blog. Specifically, it is part of the “twenty eleven” theme. Unfortunately I don’t know anything more about it, even after checking on Google. It is a nice looking board, sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Thank you for the WordPress on Raspberry Pi tutorial! It’s the best one I’ve encountered. Thank you!
Cheers Noob.
Hi Jim;
I’m interested in your Simple Picture Gallery on Raspberry Pi. I’m a Unix/Raspian novice. Should I be concerned that the tutorial was published over 5 years ago? If things have changed enough for it to fail on my Pi, I may not be able to resolve issues.
My Pi is a 3B that came pre-configured. I have added CUPS for print server, and FEH to experiment with images.
Thanks.
Geoff from Canada
Hi Geoff,
The procedure should still work. It uses imagemagick, which is still a supported package, and available for the latest Raspbian releases. I don’t think anything has changed in that respect. Give it a try.
Cheers,
Jim
Hi Jim;
Well, I only got to page 3 of the tutorial, no issues up to this point – then had an issue running gallery.sh:
pi@raspberrypi:/var/www/pictures $ ~/gallery.sh “Pam iPad 2017”
zip error: Nothing to do! (Pam iPad 2017.zip)
ls: cannot access ‘Pam iPad 2017.zip’: No such file or directory
FYI There are many images in ‘pictures’ directory with filenames like
‘IMG_0004.JPG’
Do you have a suggestion?
Thanks
Geoff
Hi Geoff,
The script is designed for lower case file names, whereas yours are upper case. I have modified it to deal with upper case names too. Download it again and try the new version.
Jim.
Hi Jim;
Well, I ran the revised gallery.sh and it worked perfect. The “pictures” folder contains the pics and thumbnails. Thank you.
But when I access through the browser (Firefox) I get ‘unable to connect’. If I don’t include the pictures folder name in the URL, I get the prior default page “Apache2 Debian Default Page”. Maybe this is something to do with permissions – I don’t know. (This is possibly irrelevant, but my router is set to forward port 80 to another host, so I set the Pi to use port 8080.)
Anyway, I will figure it out.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards
Geoff
Hi-
I’ve been following your automatic nextcloud installation guide, and it works flawlessly, up to mounting a hard drive to use as the storage. You said “mount your disk at a suitable location” I’m a total noob. How do I mount a disk in order to work with your code. Thank you very much for your help!