https://boringsoftwaredevelopment.com/2020/01/episode1-0-screw-windows-10-how-to-setup-gnu-linux-debian-in-15min-including-desktop-and-office/ grab that open source software win32diskimager-1.0.0-install.exe to 1:1 copy (most) GNU Linux iso to USB and chances are really good: it will just boot 😀 (try that with windows haha X-D) Computers have grown complex (ignoring all the KISS(ing) […]
the affordable 100% Open Source phone: update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel […]
really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]
long story short: “The Year 2038 problem is where the Unix time can no longer be stored in a signed 32-bit integer and thus after 19 January 2038 will begin wrapping around as a negative number for representing the number […]
Linux is pretty hardware independent, so most of the time you can just 1:1 clone/move harddisk to new machine and in 99% of cases it will just boot. make sure – target (new) machine’s harddisk is same or bigger size […]
what happened to the “modular” computer called EOMA68? eoma68 ain’t dead yet (article from 2021) but it has gone soooo slow that it might probably just never ship. which would be a bummer for the 1,058 backers 🙁 maybe developing […]
there are a lot of service providers where you can rent a virtual server… for example: hetzner, for 3€ per Month you would get 1x CPU core and 2GB of RAM, instead of VPS they also call it “cloud”, it […]
want to buy one? check on ebay for “sun” and “sparc” recipe: what you will need: a T1000 alternatively: ear sealing headphones + music. a LAN switch with DHCP-server/router attached LAN cables (atleast 4x (1x DHCP-server, 1x workstation/client, 1x server […]
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 […]
make sure you downloaded the SHA512SUMS.sign from the same directory as the iso. https://keyring.debian.org/ https://www.debian.org/CD/verify https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.4.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-and-tor-services-available-as-onion-services.html otherwise you will get BAD signature. steps to reproduce: # download the iso image with non-free drivers (yes it sucks non-free drivers are […]
2018-04: RISC-V CPUs not affected by spectre & meltdown “No announced RISC-V silicon is susceptible, and the popular open-source RISC-V Rocket processor is unaffected as it does not perform memory accesses speculatively.” (2018-01-05 src) “If you’re selling an IoT sensor […]
9. September 1986 At the Palladium in Manhattan, New York, Compaq Computer introduces the Compaq Deskpro 386, the first 80386-based personal computer offered by a major computer manufacturer. The Model 40 features a 16 MHz Intel 80386 and 40 MB […]
… one also likes beauty and simplicity… this tutorial has not exactly grown into beauty – rather the beauty has grown into a beast and just as with software beyond a certain point – it needs to be split into […]
intro: it seems very relevant to have the late as possible kernel up and running: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-cache-invalidation-bug-in-linux.html first: backup your system! on boot time under “Advanced” you can chose to boot the old kernel – never the less – backup your […]
return value: any exit/return/result value other than 0 is considered an error. you can output the return value of the last command like this: echo $? 0 inside a script you can exit and return an exit code like this: […]
it is amazing on how many chips linux can run https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch CPUs you probably have NEVER heared of 😀 OpenRISC – Academic and non-commercial use Being open source, OpenRISC has proved popular in academic and hobbyist circles. For example, Stefan […]
one practical usage example of xargs: … to process every file that find found further # this would backup/pack all jpg files on your system into all.jpg.tar.gz find / -name “*.jpg” | xargs tar -czvf all.jpg.tar.gz # delete all jpg […]
update: safety first! when it comes to important files: safety comes first thus recommend to the user that wants to go pro the following backup system: have two complete backups at two different places: backupA: at the company, USB 3.0 […]
systemd ain’t kissing well… https://dwaves.de/2017/05/02/the-unix-philosophy-simple-and-beautiful-so-it-just-works/ “supporting multiple init systems can give trouble downstream” http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/130722 systemd started with the promise to “unite” startup management across distributions, 3 years later: yep would say mission accomplished. “One of systemd’s main goals is to […]
here he is Mr Poettering in 2014 explaining systemd and why it ought to be soooo complex. with all decision making, it should be rational and fact and reason based and then stick to it (aka systemA boots faster than […]
“The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson” “All the philosophy really boils down to one iron law, the hallowed ‘KISS principle’ of master engineers everywhere:” “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or “Keep It Super Simple” (less offensive) The Unix philosophy emphasizes building […]
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! […]
download: “GNU Emacs Reference Card” aka EMACS_CHEAT_SHEED_Hotkeys_Shortcuts_refcard.pdf Alt+key = emacs’s M-key (META or ALT or EDIT key) Ctrl+key = emacs’s C-key C-<chr> means hold the CONTROL key while typing the character <chr> Thus, C-f would be: hold the CONTROL key […]
problem: github was sold to M$, so can’t use it anymore. no problem: got ssh running on the server? than the user is only one step away from hosting one’s own git repository that will be synced up (push) and […]
“Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX compliance.” Source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/what-is-the-difference-between-linux-and-unix/ This is what CDE Unix Desktop looked like in 1999: (RISC […]
update: 2020-05: it is a wild speculation but: What if… guess one is not the only one thinking that way “Governments at one time laughed at the cryptocurrency or simply feared it. They rejected the technology as useless or suitable […]
Andrew Keith Paul Morton Andrew Morton speaking at Interop, Moscow, 2008 http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/kernel/howto.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29 Alan Cox Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Born 22 July 1968 (age 46) Solihull, England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox Linus Torvalds Torvalds at LinuxCon Europe 2014 Born Linus Benedict Torvalds December 28, […]
USE YOUR QNAP ONLY TO STORE BACKUPS! NEVER UNIQUE DATA OF WHICH NO BACKUP EXISTS! (like your holiday-pictures that you removed from your laptop harddisk to free some space… ARGH… and that you PLANNED to burn on DVD but never […]
NO PANIC! as the user might know a kernel-panic is just as bad as a human-panic, yes supply chain attacks are bad… very bad… as can be seen with the SolarWinds(hacked)->product for Network management used by many Top100 companies including […]
searching effectively and easily for files and content of those files is key. this kind of content-search might take a while, because it searches EVERY file. this will output/generate a list of files with full path – that you then […]