Category: Geek

MQTT Republishing Itch

September 23, 2012 - Computers , Geek , Home Automation , Technology - by admin - 1 Comment

So, I had an itch. A variety of data coming in from a variety of sources, all over different protocols and methods, with different names, heirarchies, and paths. For a while I’d been pushing the data into MySQL, but this seemed a bit of a hack, and it still didn’t […]

Accessing Novell Groupwise from Ubuntu, Mint, etc

July 12, 2012 - Computers , Geek , Novell , Work - by admin - No Comments

We use Groupwise at work, and up until recently Groupwise support was available in Evolution. I don’t know why it was dropped, but it’s fairly easy to reinstate it again if you’re prepared to build from source. These are the steps I used to build it on two Linux Mint […]

apt-key from behind a firewall

July 11, 2012 - Geek , Internet , Linux - by admin - 2 Comments

At work we’re pretty heavily firewalled. This means that outbound requests on funny ports are often firewalled off, and systems that rely on such ports will time out. One such system that is commonly used yet inaccessible is the GPG SKS port 11371. And many many Linux things use GPG! […]

Jeenode & Smart LED Strings

March 8, 2012 - Geek - by admin - 1 Comment

Recently I bought two packs of 50 Smart RGB LED lights to play with whilst attached to one of my Jeenodes. Subsequent discovery of data by D has allowed me to get them up and running, and to learn more about bit shifting and clock rates. To wire them up, […]

Epson SX235W on Linux

February 24, 2012 - Computers , Geek , Linux - by admin - 7 Comments

Recently my parents purchased an Epson Stylus SX235W for use with their Linux laptops. It’s a combined inkjet printer and flatbed scanner with wireless network support, all for a decent price. My dad uses Ubuntu Lucid, my own choice back when Lucid was current, and it was also conveniently on […]