CloudACM – Page 31 – Autonomous Computational Machines

RetroPie, Emulation Station, and Webmin

February 5, 2018 Patrick Gilfeather

Peter Carcione made a youtube clip last year about Game Wizard’s adaptation of RetroPie, a game console emulator that plays video games from the early days of gaming. It runs on a Raspberry Pi and provides an all inclusive interface to run the various console platforms. He provides a step by step that still works as of this writing, you can find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759AWWchIdE One of the things that I noticed was that the distro that RetroPie ran on…

Managed Network Switches

January 29, 2018 Patrick Gilfeather

This post is a continuation from my last post that covered network management. I’ll be showing how to use a managed network switch to identify and control the devices that connect on a network. These devices need a way to connect to each other and it is the switch that provides that physical connection. Wireless devices may seem like they are outside this realm, but they too connect to a switch through their access point. Network managed switches offer a…

Network Monitoring with NMAP, DNS, and DHCP

January 22, 2018 Patrick Gilfeather

Keeping track of devices on a network might not be an item that ordinary users will concern themselves with. Most users will simply be satisfied that their device has an internet connection. With the recent rise of IoT, mobile, and home automation devices it would be wise to take a closer look at those devices that occupy your network space. In this post I’ll cover how users can monitor their networks using DNS, DHCP, and NMAP. By default, most devices…