Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Linux

Various commands for a Debian kiosk. Show photos or a web site.

Saturday, October 13, 2018 Home Assistant, Linux, Raspberry Pi

Getting started with Home assistant to automate your IKEA Trådfri or Philips Hue lights, using a Raspberry Pi and Conbee, the docker way

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Linux, Raspberry Pi

Get good quality analog audio from your Raspberry Pi for cheap.

Sunday, July 16, 2017 Linux, Raspberry Pi, Python, Display

Use a Raspberry Pi to follow Bitcoin trades in realtime on a cheap, tiny OLED display

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Linux, Raspberry Pi, Node Js

In part 1 of this series I hooked up a waterproof DS18B20 to my Raspberry pi. For more fun, let’s show our temperature readings to the world!

Saturday, February 25, 2017 Linux, Raspberry Pi

One of the easiest and cheap awesome Pi hacks is DIY-ing your own thermometer.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 Linux

So you’ve got your VPS located in the US up and running but just don’t know how to put it to use? A nifty little tool named sniproxy will do great things for you.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Linux

Archiving might become a necessity when storing a lot of files on a server. This is a snippet which moves files older than a year to another directory. Note the -print0 and -0 (zero) which add null characters for escaping spaces and backslashes. find myfiles/ -mtime +365 -print0 |xargs -0 -I {} mv {} myfiles_old/

Thursday, August 25, 2011 Linux

Compiling and using sasc-ng and dvbloopback with Linux 2.6.38 is a hassle. Here’s how to get it working. Prequisites: Ubuntu Lucid Kernel 2.6.38-11-generic We need to patch both the kernel dvb module as well as the dvbloopback source. Download linux-2.6.38-dvb-mutex.patch to your home folder. $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-uname -r Now let’s get the kernel source, patch it, and recompile the dvb-core module. $ cd /usr/src $ sudo apt-get source kernel-image-uname -r $ cd linux-2.

Monday, February 21, 2011 Linux linux, mysql, mysqldump

If you, like me, happen to end up with a mysqldump –all-databases dump file and need to restore a single database, here’s how (replace Target with your database name):