Technical notes
Experiences, technical notes and experiments around open source, Linux, homelab, automation, hardware, hacking and maker projects.
All my servers are small Arm SBCs that use SDCards or eMMC for storage. For all of them, I use the same optimization state that basically do 2 things : Change commit and barrier settings of …
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The story began some years ago, when I built from scratch a “true” fullsized arcade cabinet (see the gallery). This Mame Cab was pretty cool, with nice arcade feeling : CRT …
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As part of a project to upgrade my servers (Sheevaplug and Cubieboards), I wanted to automate most of the OS and software deployments. Moreover the idea was also to factorize configurations …
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Following my original project of the Zibase Binding, I updated it for the recent 1.9 branch. The pull request has been sent to OpenHab team. While this update is being reviewed, you can find …
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Since more than 2 years now, I’m using a Sheevaplug as a low power NAS (see this article). Until now, I was using a Debian 6 “squeeze”, with an old 2.6 kernel. I had some …
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I have seen some guys who put a raspberry pi in a Game Boy case (eg. here or here). Being a fan of retro-gaming, I wanted to do the same for me and my children. But I wanted something a …
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As explained in a previous post, I made a small custom ARM servers bay with 3 cubieboards. Until now, switching power or using UART connection for debugging (headless servers only) required …
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Here is some notes of my own Zabbix monitoring system installation (debian based). It has been done since a while now, but I never took the time to finalize this post. However, it can still …
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As an owner of the excellent Linksys (Cisco) E4200 router, I use a Debian Linux distribution on it (more info on http://www.wolfteck.com/projects/candyhouse/). Unfortunately, the given …
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After some crashes running OpenHab on one of my cubieboards with a freshly installed Oracle’s JRE 1.8 and several tests, I started to suspect the kernel. It was time to test a new …
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