Notesthanks to the work of [decrazyo] there’s a piece of furniture that you can add to your Animal Crossing house that will never get old: an x86 emulator that boots Linux. As explained in the video below, this trick leverages the fact that Nintendo had already built a highly accurate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator into Animal Crossing on the GameCube, which could be used to run a handful of classic games from within the player’s virtual living room. But it turns out that you can get that emulator to load a user-provided ROM from the GameCube’s memory card, which opens the doors to all sorts of mischief.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesWebVM is a server-less virtual environment running fully client-side in HTML5/WebAssembly. It's designed to be Linux ABI-compatible. It runs an unmodified Debian distribution including many native development toolchains.
WebVM is powered by the CheerpX virtualization engine, and enables safe, sandboxed client-side execution of x86 binaries on any browser. CheerpX includes an x86-to-WebAssembly JIT compiler, a virtual block-based file system, and a Linux syscall emulator.Unfurl
Notesrinetd redirects TCP or UDP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf. Unfurl
NotesIn this article, we will review the procedures required to install Debian Linux in a virtual machine managed by the VirtualBox applicationFeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes2014 brought us plenty of new open-spec, community-backed SBCs — from $35 bargains, to octa-core powerhouses — and all with Linux or Android support.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesThere are many open source BBS resources out there for Linux, but I came up short in finding anything even remotely mentioning renegade and Linux in the same sentence. This left me feeling nostalgically challenged so I set out to find a way to run a telnet multi-node Renegade BBS from my Ubuntu system. In this instructable, I will show you how I achieved this and hopefully inspire some much needed creative improvements as well.Unfurl
NotesWhile DOSBox is a great piece of kit, sometimes you may have more speciailised DOS needs that require the use of a VM. In my case, I use QEMU and so far things are working great.FeedUnfurl
NotesI desperately needed to extract the complete (and very lengthy) command line I had written 6 months ago in a bash shell - which was still running under screen. Read on to see how I eventually made it... FeedUnfurl
NotesThere are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesThis wiki shows you how to manually mount a USB Drive enclosure containing a Hard Disk. The term "mount" is the Linux term for adding a data device to a system so that its contents are navigatable. The procedure also describes the steps necessary if the Hard Drive in the USB enclosure was previously part of a working RAID 1 configuration (e.g. removed from another Synology Server). The same procedure will also probably work for RAID 0 drives, but I have not tested that. Unfurl
Notes Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices:FeedUnfurl
NotesThis blog post explains how to fix the no permissions error the Android Debugger displays when running the adb devices command Linux. The solutions presented here have been tested and found working on Ubuntu Lucid, but they should also work on other Ubuntu and Linux versions as well. FeedUnfurl
NotesIt has been quite some time since my last post about Firefox OS running on a Raspberry Pi, but the questions didn’t stop to come in “when will it be released”? Well, I’m sorry that it took so long (sometimes finding time is not that easy), but finally, here we are: the sources and build instructions are available!FeedUnfurl
NotesRaspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi. FeedUnfurl
Notes As an adovate of Dropbox I’ve been keen to find a simple way to backup by webserver/VPS to Dropbox. With up to 10gB of storage space for free there’s plenty of capacity for me to backup some MySQL databases and webroot. Unfortunately the Linux command line dropbox client doesn’t provide any way to synchronise a specific directory.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesDropbox Uploader is a BASH script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox, an online file sharing, synchronization and backup serviceUnfurl
NotesSince getting my hands on a compatible TV tuner, I’ve been able to listen to police radio, pager networks, garage door openers, air traffic control, and lots more.FeedUnfurl
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The latest Ubuntu 12.10 have several issues with both AMD/ATI and Nvidia proprietary drivers. Most of the Nvidia cases had a small dependency issue and it can be fixed.Unfurl
NotesWhen you’re running Ubuntu and updating your system frequently, there is a high chance that older kernels that are no longer needed are still installed on your system. Over time, if these older kernels are not removed, precious hard disk space may be wasted and your system’s performance may suffer.Unfurl
NotesZoneMinder is an integrated set of applications which provide a complete surveillance solution allowing capture, analysis, recording and monitoring of any CCTV or security cameras attached to a Linux based machine. It is designed to run on distributions which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with video cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and also supports most IP network cameras. A partial list is given in the Wiki and Support sections, please give feedback in the Forums if it works with yours. ZoneMinder also requires MySQL and PHP, and is enhanced by a webserver such as Apache.Unfurl
NotesA few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptaps, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order certain machines with Ubuntu). Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit Dell announced that it is dipping its toes into back into the Linux laptop market with Project Sputnik, a developer-centric laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell’s XPS13 Ultrabook hardware.Unfurl
NotesLinux Tycoon is the premier Linux Distro Building Simulator game in the universe.
(Truth be told: It’s probably the only Linux Distro Building Simulation game in the universe.)Unfurl
NotesThe first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announced today that manufacturing on the first batch is set to complete on February 20.Unfurl
Notes What is it? This is a combined MacOS X Preference Pane and faceless background application (FBA) to receive and send Infrared signals (more...)Unfurl
NotesOur USB IR Transmitter/Receiver is a standard USB device that can transmit and receive the infrared codes supported by LIRC (Linux only) and WinLIRC (Windows only and beta). Combined with (Win)LIRC, this device can communicate with most home electronics, such as TVs, stereos, DVD players, receivers, and their associated remote controls. When used with MythTV, you can turn your computer into a TiVo-like media center. Unfurl
NotesWith the following (minimal) hardware circuitry the NSLU2 is able to receive and transmit infrared signals, e.g. like RC5. These are normally received by audio and video equipment and sent by remote controls from your couch. The signals are decoded and generated in software using LIRC. Unfurl
NotesThis is another version of a connector, not so universal like the 34-pin one, but with a tap on the green LED, that can be used for the transmission and reception of infrared remote control signals.Unfurl
Notes"Ok, that Ubuntu issue is a known problem. It saves the assignment of MAC <==> ethX using an udev rule. Have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d and you will find a file 70-persistent-net.rules there. You can savely remove this file. This file is auto-generated by /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. You can remove that file as well. From now on, the guest will no longer store the assignment between the MAC and ethX interface."Unfurl
Notes"This is a instruction guide on how to modify the Synology Server to backup files to Amazon's S3 service, an online storage space, offered by Amazon.com<br />
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To backup (synchronize) your data from your Synology box to Amazon S3, you'll need to install some additional software on your machine, like OpenSSL, wget-SSL, ruby and s3sync. This installation is detailed here. "Unfurl
Notes"This document describes a method for generating automatic rotating "snapshot"-style backups on a Unix-based system, with specific examples drawn from the author's GNU/Linux experience"Unfurl
Notes"When I'm developing, I try to continuously deploy to a realistic environment as often as possible. This means a Debian server running a stack as close to production as I can get. Of course, I don't deploy to the actual production servers (a lesson I've learnt many times over), so I virtualise a Debian box and clone package set from the production server. Combined with bridged networking and a quick hosts file change, and I've got a production-equivalent server always available at server.local."Unfurl