Chris Carey

Geekin’ Out: for the love of computers.

  • PurpleAir Raspberry Pi

    With all the fires in California, I found myself checking PurpleAir multiple times per day to track what the air is like outside – waiting for a moment when the AQI improves so we can open some windows or take a walk. I have a bunch of Raspberry Pi boards handy, and two with the…

  • Time Machine Encryption Slow Takes Too Long

    Time Machine encryption can take literally days to complete. How do you speed this up? The problem is here: It is common and logical to follow the pattern: Format a drive “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” Select that disk in Time Machine and select “Encrypt backups”. Time Machine will perform the first backup (unencrypted) on the…

  • Geist Los Gatos

    In the Amazon show “Homecoming” there are some products with the address for Geist Emergent Group17 Fluxus Circle, Los Gatos, California 95030 https://chriscarey.com/geist/

  • NagiosTV for Nagios 4 October 2018 update

     I’m happy to share another great update for NagiosTV for Nagios 4 NagiosTV is an alternate user interface (UI) for the Nagios open source monitoring system. This UI is designed to be viewed on a TV or on your desktop to quickly see if all your services are up or down. This is not meant to be a…

  • The disk “your disk” wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it

    This error message has come up on a number of occasions and I’m sure many people have wondered what is the best way to deal with this. This is for macOS, OSX, Macintosh operating system. These instructions are the same for Mavericks, Yosemite, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey. I have found a…

  • The Twitter animation

    I like the Twitter animation that you see right when launching the iPhone app. When you click the Twitter icon, the logo moves to the center of the screen and seamlessly transitions into the splash screen. Then the icon backs off a bit and shoots forward to fill the screen with white as the app…

  • NagiosTV for Nagios 4

    NagiosTV is an alternate user interface (UI) for the Nagios open source monitoring system. This UI is designed to be viewed on a TV or on your desktop to quickly see if all your services are up or down. This is not meant to be a replacement for the Nagios web interface. This version adds…

  • iPhone interface with React

    After reading about the new CSS backdrop-filter I decided to see how much work would be involved to create an iPhone like interface using HTML, CSS, and React.

  • Raspberry Pi Zero OTG mode

    Configuring a Raspberry Pi Zero for the first time just got a lot easier.

  • Achieving high frame rate with a Raspberry Pi camera system

    When you read about using Raspberry Pi cameras as part of your home security system, most of the information you will find will point you in the direction of running motion which is the de-facto standard for doing video motion detection on Linux. There are also variants of motion such as MotionEye or motionEyeOS which…