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Mac/PC: sending Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets
I’ve succesfully woken up these machines: HP XW6600 running ESXi 5.1 ThinkPad W701U running Windows 7 I still need to try to wake up a Mac Mini Server running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). MacBook Air on...
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Some notes on the Samsung UE40C6800 TV, PVR, decoding the PVR recordings and...
After having recorded quite a few broadcastings to USB from my Samsung UE40C6800 TV with the T.VALDEUC 3011.0 firmware, I wanted to copy them over to either a Windows or Linux based machine for post...
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MINIX 3.3.0 is now available – Google Groups
Earlier this week: MINIX 3.3.0 is now available – Google Groups: Hi all, We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.3.0 stable release. The major new features & improvements of this release include: New...
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My ZFS question on G+: investigation for using a XW6600 based system with ZFS.
My ZFS question on G+: Hi everyone. I’m a geek. Learned most of the stuff by doing, and keeping tracks of what I did on my tech-blog http://wiert.me I want to start with ZFS on a pair of HP XW6600...
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Moving my BitBucket mercurial repository to git was a lot harder than I hoped...
After reading Converting Hg repositories to Git directed me into reading Bitbucket: Converting Hg repositories to Git I hoped moving my Mercurial repository on BitBucket to a Git repository would be...
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letsenctrypt certbot-auto – finding what certificates are there and which...
IRC #letsencrypt-dev today: wiert Is there any way for `certbot-auto` to show for which domains/apache-configs it has certificates? pdeee wiert, we actually made a ticket for 0.10.0 to do that...
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Displaying Linux Log files with journalctl
journalctl is a systemd utility that allows the journal to be queried. journalctl command examples for displaying system log files on a systemd Linux system. How to enable persistent journal entries....
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Using the github version of certbot (formerly letsencrypt) to get Let’s...
The Let’s Encrypt certbot (formerly letsencrypt) had some trouble on my machinery. When trying to test if Apache default default · Issue #3307 · certbot/certbot and opensuse Tumbleweed: Each time I run...
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apache links for log formats, log kinds, etc
Am I the only one who thinks Apache logging configuration is a mess? Especially when you look at the templates shipping with various *nix distros? Files like vhost-ssl.template and vhost.template using...
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node.js – a nightmare to get started. Did I try the wrong technology for my...
Most of my web-stuff is on Apache. Which works fine, has TLS/SSL enabled, etc. But I wanted to do server-side JavaScript. Which somehow is a forrest without trees, or a nightmare to get started,...
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Kylix: The Real Lowdown – I wrote this in 2000 too
A while ago – while researching yesterdays post – I came across the below article that I wrote back in august 2000 for The Delphi (by Pinnacle Publishing – long gone by now) and on-line at...
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Powering Raspberry Pi devices from a Fritz!Box USB connection
I tried to power both Raspberry B+ and Raspberry 2 B devices via the USB ports of both a Fritz!Box 7490 and Fritz!Box 7360. At first this works, but the Raspberry B+ devices over time would become...
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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi: getting `vcgencmd version` to work to...
When you search for raspberry pi firmware version check Installing and running rpi-update will – besides updating the GPU firmware – also install vcgencmd, I got this result: statler:~ #...
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Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally
Even though StackOverflow and StackExchange now have implemented their own ImageFlair, I still like the original imageFlair that Grumpydev made at Stack Overflow – Share Your Flair – Now in PNG! |...
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127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts for your hostname?
Coming from an OpenSuSE background, I was a bit surprised to find 127.0.1.1 in the /etc/hosts file to point to the hostname in Raspbian distributions. It means you have to change at least these files...
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Having one Raspberry Pi reset another Raspberry Pi through relay or transistor
I’m going to build this later, but as the follow up on shortening the RUN pins of a Raspberry Pi to reset it in The woods and trees of OpenSuSE on single-board computers – image abbreviations – and...
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Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally – part 2 – trying to get the text and...
Blank imageFlair Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally ended with two issues left: an empty image and my wish to include more complete StackExchange bits like the current StackExchange flair does. I...
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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed – testing the password of any user with getent and openssl
For one of my VMs I forgot to note which of the initial password I had changed, so I wanted to check them. Since I didn’t have a keyboard attached to the console and ssh wasn’t allowing root, I needed...
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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed: When apache breaks with “Invalid argument: AH00069:...
I had this strange break down of Apache 2 after updating to the most recent openSuSE Tumbleweed in the /var/log/apache2/error_log: [Wed Jun 28 10:04:19.955991 2017] [ssl:info] [pid 27786] AH01887:...
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SUSE 12.3 – How to auto start services…?
Old (somehow it was blocked in the post queue), but sometimes still relevant for more modern services as, well sysv versus systemd war still are not over yet… Interesting: systemctl gives flaky results...
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