I love my Pebble Steel, but let's face it, the original leather watch band is ugly. You can get a metal band which looks slightly better instead, but they tend to be hard to get nowadays.
The main issue is that Pebble decided to use their own proprietary band attach …
Most computer enthusiasts have heard of CPU overclocking to get higher performance, usually requiring higher CPU voltage leading to more power consumption and more heat. In the case of my Thinkpad X61, I wanted the opposite: undervolting the CPU to increase the battery life and have a quieter …
Mikrotik hAP-ac2 is a prosumer 2.4GHz/5GHz access point. I use several of them in my home and they work well, the only issue is the initial configuration which can be problematic if you cannot use their Windows-only WinBox tool.
After some trial-and-error, the procedure I came up with …
Self-hosting is the practice of running your own server hosting your own Internet services, especially emails. As of this writing, I am now self-hosting for 14 years and I figured it could be useful to document my current setup and what I learned along the way.
Nowadays I value a …
To install Debian 10 on the SolidRun CuBox (1st version, Marvell Armada 510 based):
Create 2 partitions on your SD card (eg. using fdisk): the 1st one of type ext4 with size ~200MB for boot and the 2nd of type f2fs for the system (WARNING: this will wipe all data …
I decided to record here useful bash fragments, commands, etc. I kept using and forgetting from time to time... I will enrich it as needed. There is no particular order nor specific explanation. Some might be useful to others. Maybe. Who knows.
I use chroot environments quite a lot as a light way to develop/test/integrate software for different Linux distributions or even platforms (eg. Ubuntu 18.04 on ARM vs Debian 10 on x86), thanks to the Linux kernel stable ABI and qemu emulation.
However, it was always a little …
When decompressing a sparse file with gzip, the file is not sparsed anymore. In order to decompress it as sparse, we can use dd:
~# zcat <sparsefile.bin.gz> | dd conv=sparse of=<sparsefile.bin>
Note that this is not specific to gzip. Also note that some utilities such as xz …
WARNING 1: the update is done at your own risk and may brick your computer.
WARNING 2: this will wipe all data on the target USB device.
WARNING 3: do not use SYSLINUX MEMDISK driver to boot it directly with eg. Grub. The Lenovo BIOS updater use the …
For another on-going project, I needed to do 64-bits x 64-bits to 128-bits multiply, and I needed it in Python. When doing numerical work with Python, I always use NumPy which is a really awesome library. Unfortunately NumPy is heavily biased towards hardware native types, which makes sense for efficiency …