Category: Hardware / Reviews

02.05.2017

Update: 2019.01: Redhat CPU fixes overview: Is CPU microcode available to address CVE-2017-5715 via the microcode_ctl package? https://access.redhat.com/articles/3436091 Update: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Intel-Prozessoren-undokumentierter-Debugging-Zugriff-erforscht-4256525.html update: from FSF: Dana Morgenstein: If there is an event at your university or in your community addressing the Intel chip […]

The Problem with Closed Source Drivers
01.05.2017

Unfortunately Debian – and i guess the rest of the Linux world as well – users have a pretty hard time finding WIFI and LAN cards but also grafix cards that can run with 100% free software. (FSF! STALLMAN! HELP! […]

03.02.2017

https://www.armbian.com/pcduino3/ jumping up on the latest MicroMicro-Mini-Low-Power-Low-Cost-Computer train: Arduino actually startet off with Atmel-CPUs which could do all sorts of automation and measurement industrial applications… but were not really usefull as PC-replacement or Gaming-Consoles 😀 actually i try to establish […]

31.01.2017

Hardware Assembly: (i think 512MByte should be enough, 1GByte probably pretty good) Software Installation: including squid-proxy and web advertisement-filtering in the next part: OpenVPN 🙂 Thanks man! Amazing tutorials! by https://internetz.me Related Links: https://www.howtoforge.com/pfsense-squid-squidguard-traffic-shaping-tutorial http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz

Was macht eigentlich ORACLE?
28.01.2017

Jeder kennt Steve Jobs (now dead) – aber wer kennt schon “Larry” Ellison? 😀 Oracle hat 2010 die Firma “Sun Microsystem aufgekauft” und damit OpenSource Technologie wie Java, VirtualBox und MySQL eingekauft. Lawrence Joseph “Larry” Ellison (born August 17, 1944) […]

26.01.2017

http://weinhof9.de/am-18-1-feinstaub-lora-freifunk-spezialabend/ Lightning Talk zu den Feinstaubsensoren auf dem 33c3 (media.ccc.de) Einkaufsliste für Ungeduldige (die Lieferzeit aus China beträgt mehrere Wochen) (github.com) Wiki des Feinstaubsensorprojekts (github.com) Aufbauanleitung (PDF, github.com) http://opendata-stuttgart.github.io/feinstaub-map/

To Freifunk Firmware and Back on TP-Link TL-WR841N v11
18.01.2017

FOR SECURITY REASONS, KEEP ROUTER FIRMWARE UPDATED! Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices. (src: heise.de) welcher router/welche hardware verwenden/zukunftstauglich? (ändert sich von Jahr […]

16.01.2017

i would love iceland or any government come forth on that issue – developing and standardizing free hardware (from phones to laptops to 3d printed houses?) for it’s free citizens – without closed-source-binary-blobs and drivers. https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Machines Further hardware resources: […]

Open Source Hardware
16.01.2017

while this is not exactly the same as “free hardware”… it is still a step in the right direction. http://www.oshwa.org/ Here is a list of OSHWA approved hardware projects: http://certificate.oshwa.org/certification-directory/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gJHfoIyvU_ZUnMPu5pVvUQTfMr3ObmwplwwQRIbIy9Y/pubhtml/sheet?headers=false&gid=0   1 UID Project Name Brief Project Description Link […]

16.01.2017

So it seems pretty hard to find a grafix-card that runs on completely open source and not closed-source drivers. we try never the less we try. Reception and impact https://www.mtu.edu/materials/department/faculty/pearce/ http://www.openhardware.org/ Cover for “Open-Source Lab” by Joshua M. Pearce (2014). […]

Open (Plans-Source) Hardware – DragonBox Pyra – designed in Germany
16.01.2017

the massive challenge for Open (Source/Schematics/Plan/Recipe) Hardware seems the grafik-card… which often runs on closed-source drivers. This is true for the raspberry pi (it even needs binary-closed-source-blob to boot), for the EOMA68 project and the pyra. holy cow this thing […]

Want to disable Intel Management Engine
16.01.2017

It is actually a scandal that the world depends on chips and operating systems – that are designed to do mass-surveillance – it seems – in order to build up a world-wide-dictatorship that no-one can escape… by information and money. […]

Re Install Grub2 Linux Boot Loader with KNOPPIX
21.12.2016

Manchmal wenn man eine Festplatte einfach von einem System (Laptop) in ein anderes System (Desktop/Workstation) plugged and played – läuft Linux meist reibungslos… aber Windows nicht, welches man evtl. für Spiele (was sonst) “braucht” 😀 Also muss man Windows reinstallieren… […]

19.12.2016

what you will need is a NULL-MODEM CABLE (with all the twist an wirering) Linux Debian picocom / minicom settings: [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] apt-get update; apt-get install picocom; # install picocom sudo bash; # become root dmesg | egrep […]

15.12.2016

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 […]

OffGrid Solar Powered Workstation (Open Source Hardware)
05.11.2016

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 […]

10.10.2016

list all installed wifi and lan network cards lspci -knn|grep -EiA2 net; 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10ea] (rev 06) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2153] Kernel driver in use: e1000e — 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel […]

30.07.2016

😀 i love the sarcasm and Australian accent 😀 makes such a boring task like choosing a proper digital meter more fun. take the Benning 1-3 which is about 100€ http://de.benning.de/de/corporate/produkte-dienstleistungen/pruef-und-messtechnik/digital-multimeter/benning-mm-1-1-mm-1-3.html If you need a clamp (inductive meassuring, without direct […]