why is RUST so popular? one surely does not want metal to rust… it’s named after a fungi. “Rust is named after a fungus that is robust, distributed, and parallel. It is also a substring of “robust”.” (src) https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Rust-becoming-popular (he […]
in comparison to Y2K: “The issue became when it became 2000 because that would be stored as 00 in the program. This caused many to believe that say, bank software wouldn’t be able to get your money out because it […]
Solar Panel 100W (12V?) and Battery Charger (12V) https://www.offgridtec.com/en/complete-systems/solar-system-autarkic/offgridtec-solar-bausatz-basic-starter-100-watt-12v.html Solar Panel Module Voltage: (Vmp) 17,6V Victron BlueSolar PWM-Light 12V 24V 10A -> DataSheed Maximum solar voltage: 28V possible alternative: Steca Solsum 8.8F 12Vor better: Steca-LCD-Display-PR-2020 12V -> 5V Car USB […]
warning: this only works if you have a gui/gnome installed. thanks goes to this superb tutorial with screenshots: http://xmodulo.com/debug-program-nemiver-debugger.html For Debian based distributions, it should be pretty straightforward: apt-get install nemiver; # Debian and Ubuntu pacman -S nemiver; # For […]
specs Compared to the Raspberry Pi 1 it has: A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1GB RAM Like the (Pi 1) Model B+, it also has: 4 USB ports 40 GPIO pins Full HDMI port Ethernet port Combined 3.5mm audio […]
on intel / amd cpus/boards: use lm sensors: su – root; # become root apt-get install lm-sensors; # install sensors-detect; # detect available temperature sensors, answer with YES usually # monitor cpu temp every second while true; do sensors|grep Core; […]
update: 2019-10: what it does: one can install a very decent Debian and have okay working speed so yes it can be seen as a very energy efficient (5V based) and still usable (definately faster than pi2) desktop system (99% […]
MicroKernel for mobile devices? LK (Little Kernel) is a tiny operating system suited for small embedded devices, bootloaders, and other environments where OS primitives like threads, mutexes, and timers are needed, but there’s a desire to keep things small and […]
Via Seriellem-D-Sub-9-poligen Anschluss: kann man bei vielen Geräten einen Terminal-Bildschirm-Output bekommen. D.h. man bekommt ASCII-Zeichen ausgegeben und kann mit dem Gerät interagieren, als wäre man via SSH oder TELNET eingewählt. Serielle Kabel, Nullmodem, LapLink usw. Oft müssen auch Daten zwischen […]
This article is about finding out: What low-power PC with decent performance is best suitable for solar-powered (12v would be nice) Off-Grid-computing while respecting your privacy in an FSF-kind? done! see: run a Solar-Battery powered 12V Raspberry Pi Model B […]
B with keyboard = 1.89 W -> daily 45 Wh B+ with keyboard […]
# delete old vitualbox install package apt-get purge virtualbox # install & download package wget –no-check-certificate https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib” >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install virtualbox-4.2 dkms # you might also want the guest […]
Carambola1 (discontinued) is based on a network card chip from Ralink the RT3050F, Wi-Fi enabled Linux module, featuring the lowest power consumption in the industry that is pretty fast at network-things and can even run a whole PHP-stack webserver (MySQL […]
in order to get support for FAT32 formatted USB sticks i want to compile my own carambola firmware. ready compiled and tested firmware for carambola 1 rt305x CPU download here (do sysupgrade with file called openwrt-ramips-rt305x-carambola-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin): openwrt-ramips-rt305x-carambola-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin_03.2013_ramips.zip.pdf (download .zip.pdf renamte to […]
Carambola1 (32MByte) the smallest possible webserver. (lighttpd + php5 working) So here is how you connect to carambola / OpenWRT. TO CLARIFY: THIS CARAMBOLA-WIKI-ENTRY SAYS: “From factory Carambola is shipped with ttyS0 disabled. Or to be more precise it is in […]