Intelligent Dithering

Home automation, Raspberry Pi and self-hosting.

Tag: sysadmin

Guides
Cheap DIY 8 Port IP KVM on a budget
A practical guide to building a cheap IP KVM with a Raspberry Pi, PiKVM software, and an 8-port HDMI KVM switch. The article walks through the hardware setup, reverse-engineering the switch’s control box, and adding custom PiKVM buttons for remote port switching, giving web-based access to servers and even remote reimaging support.
January 31, 2025
Colin
Guides
Make the ultimate bootable USB drive
Creating a USB Swiss army knife full of tech tools for all your geeky needs Today we are going to make the ultimate bootable USB drive to have with you at all times. This is an invaluable tool and it is all made possible by the Open Source tool Ventoy. This post is available in…
October 15, 2023
Colin
Guides
My method for Windows system imaging
In our school we use FOG as our imaging system as I have mentioned before. I like to keep a default image with an up to date installation of Windows 7 Pro, Office 2010 and other essential tools and utilities on it. Most of our smaller bits of software we push out to the machines…
September 20, 2015
Colin
Guides, Recommended
Open source system imaging with FOG
If you manage a large number of Windows PCs you will want a way to set them up as quickly and painlessly as possible. There are many system imaging solutions out there (such as Symantec Ghost, Altiris etc) but these tend to be expensive. Working in education you learn quickly to find cheap or free…
August 6, 2015
Colin