Bunch of pictures (and updated blog software)
Sigh. If a PHP coder says "The complete upgrade path is automatted and can be performed with a single mouse click.", don't believe him. I just spent almost an hour on a Serendipity upgrade. Maybe it...
View ArticleHAR2009
Hey, it's more than two months ago already, but it's just in time for my thoughts on HAR2009! I put pictures on-line a little while ago already, but nothing else so far. It's a pretty neat event. It...
View ArticleRunning 32-bit 3D apps on 64-bit Debian NVIDIA systems
Because Intel on-board video isn't quite good enough at 3D and my somewhat old laptop with built-in NVIDIA chip wasn't doing all that well at X-Plane either, I bought an NVIDIA GT240 card. Mostly...
View Articlespamass-milter and IPv6
While migrating my mailserver from Ubuntu Dapper to Debian Lenny, I noticed spamass-milter didn't want to start: Could not parse "2001:770:017b::" as a network After scratching my head on that for a...
View ArticleSending files using netcat
There are plenty of articles about this already, but I couldn't find anyone who wrote a script to automate this simple task of transferring files using just...
View ArticleBitlBee, alive and kicking
As quin in #bitlbee said a little while ago, I stole someone's mojo and found an amazing amount of productivity when it comes to writing code, and it feels great. I'm quit relieved that I can still...
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Shiny happy hardware
For years I'm using Winterms as simple home "servers". It was a fun project to work on and some people were even nice enough to send me some examples of more powerful (relatively, we're talking about...
View Articlednsrev
As a bit of a cloud "sceptic" I still like to waste too much time maintaining my own network/IT infrastructure. :> I'm definitely trying to avoid the more tedious stuff though. I started using...
View ArticleOn Pandaboard SD card performance
I have the Pandaboard running as my home server for a while now. Until last weekend, I was using a Microdrive as its root filesystem. Sadly, the drive seems to be broken. :-( That means I finally had...
View ArticleBank statement scraper for Bank of Ireland
Like many people, I was also losing track of my finance. Having bank accounts in use in both NL and IE probably didn't help. :-) As any proper FOSS geek, I learned to like the monster called GnuCash....
View ArticleDebian, dmcrypt and SSD TRIMming
Spent an hour or so this morning wondering how to get my Debian initramfs to activate my LUKS-encrypted partition with --allow-discards. I know it's less secure, but as long as wrenches are still...
View Articleuhat, using your joystick's hat switch in Linux flight simulators
So I have this fun hobby for a while already, flying.. I have around 50 hours logged by now in the US + Ireland, which means I can more or less land safely now, on my own. In fact I had my first solo...
View Articleselphy.go - Linux client for Canon Selphy CP-900 photo printer
Last month I ran into a Canon Selphy CP-900 photo printer. It's a pretty neat device, prints pictures with pretty good quality. It even worked out of the box in Linux, but only via USB, and by it...
View ArticleDear /dev/null,
That's what weblogs are these days, it seems. :-( And I've just lost way too much time getting this quality PHP software to run on my new webserver. All it is for me at this point is a place to post...
View ArticlePuppet 4 on Debian 9 Stretch with nginx (with Puppet 3 agents if needed)
As part of upgrading my machines from Jessie to Stretch, I finally had to pick up Puppet 4. My hosts running testing were trying to do so for a while already, but since Puppet requires the master to...
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