Category: Geek
IPXE and Coreboot Ramblings
This is more a collection of notes compiled from my command history. It hasn’t been repeated… I have a motherboard that is Coreboot compatible. Coreboot comes with a basic payload that permits booting from local disks, but requires other payloads to be added if required – such as IPXE. Need […]
Read MoreAWS G2 GPU vs unattended-upgrade
Recently we noticed that our AWS G2 GPU instances were no longer working correctly after a reboot. We were being greeted with the joyful message of [ 6710.061115] NVRM: The NVIDIA GRID K520 GPU installed in this system is NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 367.xx Legacy drivers. Please NVRM: visit […]
Read MoreServer side geofencing with Owntracks, Node-Red and Domoticz
Where to start? The first challenge was getting data from my phone on public networks to my private MQTT server. At home I run Mosquitto for handling any message brokering, particularly with Domoticz and Node-Red pushing messages around. I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say I have […]
Read More1-wire, Node-Red, Domoticz & Grafana
Recently I posted a shiny graph of my garage temperature after I’d put a car with a hot engine in there. The spikes were fairly pronounced, and it was possibly to see where I’d left the door open whilst I worked on the car, before going for a test drive […]
Read MoreThe Old Backnet
Spurred on by the Twitter discussion regarding the old Backnet network and Electron Club founding, I went for a rummage through some backups. @9600 @jonty also @kylegordon and @gordonjcp were tinkering with glasgownet (W coast Backnet) — Andrew Elwell (@elwell2000) October 25, 2015 Fond memories of the Backnet Assigned Names […]
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