Computer longevity....
So it appears that just over 5 years ago I put together a computer as my old one had finally given up on life. Specs available here. Well, 5 years later that same
So it appears that just over 5 years ago I put together a computer as my old one had finally given up on life. Specs available here. Well, 5 years later that same
Quick and dirty kernel build for the Next Thing Co's C.H.I.P. $9 single board computer. This builds the kernel on the C.H.I.P. itself. Alternatively grab this gist
Plugins, or apps, are still in their infancy for the Ghost blogging platform, as such people have resorted to adding custom Handlebars helpers using a variety of hacks. One of these is shown
I've recently started experimenting with MQTT, in particular the Mosquito broker. After quite a bit of trial & error and plenty of man page reading I've managed to get things working nicely. Features
This should get you started configuring a Linux OpenVPN server, creating your own certificate authority and generating certificates and profiles for use with Apple iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone. The following
Adafruit have recently enabled MQTT as a transport for feeds on io.adafruit.com. If you already have a MQTT broker configured and working you probably don't want to reconfigure your clients to
If you have a self hosted installation of Ghost upgrading it can be a little bit daunting and possibly dangerous. The instructions here are pretty good. Although sometimes all you want is one
Once you've got a lot of ebooks in Calibre it is handy to have them available straight from your tablet. An easy way to do this is using the content server that is
These cheap 2.2" LCDs are pretty handy for a Raspberry Pi. Connect them like this: Use Notoro's fbtft modules to get them working with Linux. They are included in the Raspberry
My system has been running as a Hackinstosh for the better part 2 years, there’s been the odd hiccup along the way, mainly around sound drivers, but other than that it’s
If you feel the need to get your Telstra Bigpond usage from the command line, say for putting into a round-robin database for drawing pretty graphs, then give this a go: #!/usr/bin/
After a great deal of frustration and much trial and error I have finally managed to get D3.js to plot multiple lines, and when the data changes the lines are updated, complete