Category: Linux

MQTT GPIO Monitoring

October 25, 2012 - Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - No Comments

My little Raspberry Pi seems to be growing arms and legs. The other day I hooked up a simple PIR to it. I can’t remember where I got it, but it runs off 5v, consumes a low enough amount of milliAmps to be directly connected to the Raspberry Pi 5v […]

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! […]

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 […]

Making XBMC work on Mint 12, with HDMI Audio Passthrough and LIRC

December 11, 2011 - Computers , Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - No Comments

I’ve got a Dell Optiplex 755 hooked up to my Yamaha amp and surround system, and it was about time XBMC was installed on it. It uses a low profile Nvidia GeForce 8400GS for VDPAU acceleration and HDMI audio. These are some rough notes I took whilst setting it up. […]

Making OpenDAB, FEC and the Psion Wavefinder work on x64

November 7, 2011 - Geek , Internet , Linux , Radio - by admin - 3 Comments

I’ve had a Psion Wavefinder for a while now, and it’s never really worked that well due to the rather bad combination of poorly written amateur radio related software, out of date build environments (see the previous argument), and the fact that most amateur radio enthusiasts seem to use Windows […]