Pico has some performance issues which have shown itself on my Beaglebone Black. This could be remedied by using Pico's cache plugin, but that doesn't really fix the problem underneath. Then someone pointed me to Phile CMS, a Pico fork by some of its users whishing to speed up development …
Read MoreTmux, a lightweight terminal multiplexer, can be configured to open multiple windows upon startup. On my server, I always found myself opening five or more windows. I'll show you how to automate this, through a systemd service file.
User services go in /etc/systemd/user/. To link a
service to …
Turbostat is a utility created by Intel to check your (Intel) CPU's
power states. It used to be part of the acpidump package, but
not anymore. There are no prebuilt Debian binaries around; Ubuntu
still packages it with the linux-tools package, which
is linked to the kernel. Since Debian Testing …
The Beaglebone Black is a neat, compact ARM board centered around a TI SoC. With the word ARM almost synonymous to the Raspberry Pi nowadays, here's how the Beaglebone stacks up against the Pi:
The Belgian ISP Telenet supplies their TV customers with a DVR (called 'Digicorder') along with their own modem/router combination. As long as you do not implement your own network behind their modem/router, all is fine, and your DVR is fully functional ('interactive'). It's not completely clear …
Read MoreWith computer usage becoming increasingly mobile - first laptops, then handhelds, and now smartphones and tablets - power consumption has become a hot topic. Linux has traditionally been a bit lacking in this department, playing catch-up to Windows; and while it's still not nearly as easy on a regular Linux installation to …
Read MoreMatroska files often contain multiple audio or subtitle tracks. The former can take up quite a bit of space in HD rips with multiple audio streams. Editing MKV containers is not only interesting if you want remove streams; you can also integrate subtitles, set a track as default, or have …
Read MoreNowadays all modern Linux GUIs have powersaving options that allow you, like Windows, to set timeouts for inactivity. Even 'dumb' electronics like TVs, AVRs etc. have such functionality. However, for headless Linux setups, this seems to be a problem. You can e.g. set a timeout for pm-suspend, but this …
Read MoreIf you 'value your data', as some people would say, they are not a lot of filesystems you should entrust your data to. The main Linux and Windows file systems are not fit for it, since they have not been designed to handle things like bit rot. "But I have …
Read MoreServices like Sickbeard and CouchPotato come with their own web server. This makes setting them up a breeze, but it also means you'll have multiple webservers running on your system. The built-in webserver runs on a predefined non-standard port, so as not to interfere with any regular web servers already …
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