Published: 2016-03-23
Just wanted to drop a quick line on the young LibreELEC project, a
fork of OpenELEC. It's still in its infancy, but it aims to address
a few issues that the latter has been coping with. Quite a few developers
joined already, and they intend to be open and transparent …
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Published: 2016-02-06
I have been experimenting with Saltstack - more commonly known as just 'Salt' -
and running the master on my laptop. Since it seems to be consuming CPU cycles all the time
and I'd like to optimise my laptop's autonomy, I started looking into ways to disable it on
battery, and enable …
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Published: 2016-01-02
The right tool for the job
Aptly is a neat tool that allows you to quickly build Debian or Ubuntu repositories.
You can grab it from Debian's repositories. Build a repo with the name 'zfs':
$ aptly repo create -distribution=jessie -component=contrib zfs
Add your packages. You can add separate …
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Published: 2015-12-17
Rationale
I recently had to clean up (and upgrade) a friend's system. It had been
a while since I had to do that on location, and I had just this one crappy USB2
stick on me (and my laptop with some ISOs I keep around). I wrote a Linux
Live …
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Published: 2015-11-04
I recently decided to move my remote firmware update process to HTTPS. The most
obvious and ubiquitous candidate was the wget
utility. The downside is it
only supports OpenSSL. While modern routers with 8 MiB or more flash, like my
Netgear WNDR3700, have no trouble accomodating the bigger library (libopenssl …
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Published: 2015-08-31
If you're looking on how to implement Unbound as your primary DNS resolver, read on here.
Dnsmasq configuration
Dnsmasq requires a bit more work in this scenario.
- First, we comment the
resolvfile
line, since that file will contain your ISP's DNS servers.
- The
noresolv
option needs to be set to …
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Published: 2015-08-30
DNSSEC is a set of extensions to DNS. As Wikipedia states, it is
a set of extensions to DNS which provide to DNS clients (resolvers) origin authentication of DNS data,
authenticated denial of existence, and data integrity, but not availability or confidentiality.
While it is by no means a perfect …
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Published: 2015-08-09
OpenWrt supports a plethora of devices. Recently, a fellow OpenWrt user
with Gainstrong's MiniBox v1.0 - a mini router from some Chinese manufacturer -
was wondering if he should try his hand at OpenWrt's upcoming release
(15.05 codename 'Chaos Calmer'), or stick with 14.07 and keep important
packages like …
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Published: 2015-08-09
Quilt is a handy tool to manage patches, and I discovered its value
while porting a router to a newer OpenWrt version. The diff from
the 14.07 codebase would apply with some adjustments, but patch would
still give some messages about offsets etc.:
$ patch -Np1 -i ../patch
patching file …
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Published: 2015-07-26
There is a lot of fuss nowadays about how modern human behaviour influences
our sleep pattern in a bad way. We watch TV in bed, use our smartphone
or tablet before we go to sleep. Not everyone is affected in the same way -
some people still sleep well, others turn …
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