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Free Software Foundation’s new DRM liberation video

January 29, 2015
Worth Sharing

I saw this today and thought it worth sharing: Your browser does not support the video tag. From the FSF blog.

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SSH Proxying Via VPN Gateway Using NetCat

August 18, 2014
Tech Notes

Unsurprisingly, the swiss army knife that is *NIX can solve an amazing array of problems without much fuss. For the past few years, I’ve needed to SSH into any of an array of machines behind many remote NAT routers. I’ve been getting by, until now, by directly SSHing to the router on the network I […]

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First prototype of wireless temperature+humidity sensor

July 27, 2014
Projects

  The design is pretty simple – an Atmel ATTiny85 microcontroller talks to a DHT22 single-wire temperature+humidity sensor, and transmits readings once every two seconds via the ZigBee protocol. The next step is to design a small PCB to keep everything together. I’m not sure yet if I want to aim for battery-powered or not. […]

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Pi Shield SPI Test

July 12, 2014
Projects

Our Pi Shield is progressing nicely. 5V SPI device running on a 3.3V SPI bus from the Raspberry Pi? Check. Version 1.0.0 testing complete. Bugs to be fixed, and version 1.1.0 to be released in the near future. Stay tuned!

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Open Source Project of the Month: Zabbix

December 27, 2013
Project of the Month

It’s time again for another Project of the Month! December is a pretty busy month for most people, with holidays to plan/shop for, using up that remaining vacation time, and other end-of-year tasks. That’s why it’s particularly nice to leave monitoring your IT infrastructure (or your refrigerator!) to an automated system like Zabbix. One less […]

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Open Source Project of the Month: KiwiIRC

November 27, 2013
Project of the Month

I think I’ll start writing about some of my favorite open source projects. If time permits, this’ll be a monthly thing. Not only to get some exposure for great projects, but to have a nice list of great projects I can refer to others easily. KiwiIRC As the very first project of the month, I’d […]

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Lossless HD Audio over HDMI with PulseAudio under Linux

April 13, 2013
Linux Tech Notes

Today I finally managed to get lossless HD audio working from my Linux media PC over HDMI! I’ll probably update this post as time goes, but for now it’s a quick recipe of what I did: Configure a PulseAudio ALSA sink to use the HDMI output Video cards present HDMI audio interfaces in an interesting […]

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Updated Résumé

May 3, 2012
Site News

Newly updated version of my Résumé is now online! Check it out! 🙂

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Checking software RAID arrays under Linux

April 30, 2012
Linux Tech Notes

Mostly as a reminder to myself… it’s important to have a cron job that verifies your RAID array integrity on a regular basis. (Once a week is what most hardware RAID controllers seem to use.) This is accomplished with a command such as: echo check > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action Replace md0 with the device name of your […]

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14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star

March 15, 2012
Linux

Another useful link I think is worth sharing. If you feel like contributing to Open Source but aren’t sure how, this is a great article for getting started: 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star.

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