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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Home Automation

The connected home and home automation is starting to gain some traction, and I'm deadly interested in being able to automate my home. On the one hand I dream of the days where our lives will be like the Jetsons, and on the other hand I'm running out of time in my life to do the small things. There's a lot of definitions around the connected home, and I don't know whether they would all apply to me. I like to think of Home Automation as something that will give you more time in your life by automating some of the common things that you would do...

Private Internet Access (PIA) client on Ubuntu

One of my VPN services that I regularly use is Private Internet Access. I've use it on a number of devices time to time, and I recently updated one of my laptops to Ubuntu 17.x only to find that the PIA client would freeze during connection. After digging through a number of forums, I ran into an obscure comment where someone had a similar problem (not specifically freezing, but that it just didn't work). The comment said that they didn't have ifconfig installed. I ran out of ideas, and thought why not give it a try. So I fired up my terminal...