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--- blog:articles_on_writing:wiki_farm [2020/11/21 10:25] – [Animal Farm] Phil Ide
+++ blog:articles_on_writing:wiki_farm [2020/12/12 14:25] (current) – [Wiki Farms and Animals] Phil Ide
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 ===== Raspberry Pi =====
-The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer. All you need to do is put an operating system on an SD card, connect the Pi to your network, plug the Pi into a socket and it works. You can either plug a monitor/mouse/keyboard into it, or control it from another computer.
+The [[https://www.raspberrypi.org/|Raspberry Pi]] is a credit-card sized computer. All you need to do is put an operating system on an SD card, connect the Pi to your network, plug the Pi into a socket and it works. You can either plug a monitor/mouse/keyboard into it, or control it from another computer.
-With these I have built a [[blog:articles:raspberry:phys_marsclock:pi_marsv1|clock that tells the time anywhere on Mars]], a NAS (put some hard drives on the network), a Pi-Hole (eradicate adverts), a Cron Server (fetches data from NASA and updates various pages in the [[blog:aardvaark:start|Aardvaark]] section of this site, a music centre and a laptop.
+With these I have built a [[blog:articles:raspberry:phys_marsclock:pi_marsv1|clock that tells the time anywhere on Mars]], a NAS (put some hard drives on the network), a Pi-Hole (eradicate adverts), a Cron Server (fetches data from NASA and updates various pages in the [[blog:aardvaark:start|Aardvaark]] section of this site), a music centre and a laptop. They are extremely versatile.
 I installed SyncThing, which is like OneDrive or DropBox, except I can sync multiple folders with diskspace limited only by the amount of space on the computer with the least space on it, and instead of synching with a folder "in the cloud", it synchs with a folder on my NAS.
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 The main (or default) wiki is known as the farm, and the other wikis are the animals. If you're getting a George Orwell feeling at this point, then good, because he was an author and so am I (although perhaps not in the same league).
-My plan at this point is to setup another Raspberry Pi as the host for this farm, with data being stored on a hard disk rather than an SD card. There is a plugin for DokuWiki that makes creating, deleting and configuring animals very simple. Each animal would, in this case, be a new novel.
+My plan at this point is to set up another Raspberry Pi as the host for this farm, with data being stored on a hard disk rather than an SD card. There is a plugin for DokuWiki that makes creating, deleting and configuring animals very simple. Each animal would, in this case, be a new novel.
 With the VPN, I can access this from anywhere in the world, and all I need is a web browser. Further, I'd be editing the same version of the files. However, prudence would dictate that I create a local copy on my laptop using SyncThing, so if I'm unable to connect to the internet, I can still continue working. As long as I power up the laptop when I get home, everything would get synched.
 The other major advantage of DokuWiki is that it creates a backup in the form of a reverse-delta file of any page that is edited. That way I can always roll-back any changes or simply review an earlier version of a page and copy the bits I want from it.
+The next article, [[blog:articles_on_writing:wiki_farm_01|Animal Farm Part 2]] describes how I configured the farm and got it all working.
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