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The Elephant in the Keynote (LCA 2015)

Posted on January 19, 2015

On Friday I tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/projectgus/status/555828391329292289

This post expands on what I meant.

LCA

Last week I was fortunate to be in Auckland attending linux.conf.au. There are dozens of things I could write about from LCA, inspiring talks and fascinating people doing great …

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Tagged culture, linux | Comments

Blacklisting a single USB device from Linux

Posted on September 06, 2014

It's possible to blacklist a single USB device from connecting to Linux, while allowing similar USB devices to connect. In my case, I wanted to disable my laptop's built in Bluetooth host (a USB device installed inside the laptop). However I wanted a second USB Bluetooth host, integrated as part …

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Debian Installer for Zealz GK802 "Android TV" quad core ARM MiniPC

Posted on May 21, 2013

I've assembled a network installer image to install Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" on the GK802 "Android TV" Mini PC. This is intended for people who want to run the GK802 headless or semi-headless, for server or robotics applications.

Zealz GK802Login console on my TV (my TV doesn't upscale 640x480 well.)

Last update: 24 May, see details

The GK802 is a 1GHz quad …

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Tagged androidtv, arm, debian, linux | Comments

Unlocking an encrypted rootfs over ssh with Debian wheezy (or jessie)

Posted on May 16, 2013

Problem: You have a computer running Debian 7 wheezy (also Debian 8 jessie) with an encrypted root filesystem. At startup you'd like to be able to unlock the disk over ssh, maybe because it runs headless.

There are some existing solutions to this: early-ssh worked on previous Debian versions. There …

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Anatomy of a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter

Posted on March 20, 2013

Taking apart a very cheap USB to Ethernet adapter and pondering on the parts found inside.

Here are two USB to Ethernet adapters:

More side by sideMore side by side. In the defence of the cheap adapter, it'd been apart 3 times by this point.
Adapters side by side

One of them is sold on ebay for $3.85 AU ($3.99 US), including postage to Australia. The other is sold at Apple Stores for $29 …

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Tagged electronics, linux, shanzhai | Comments

Debian on Flexiview FV-1

Posted on February 26, 2012

This post is about running Debian GNU/Linux on the Mesada/Flexiview FV-1 "AndroidTV" unit. This post has been a bit delayed, I got very sidetracked with other things this month!

By following these steps, you should be able to use the FV-1 a bit like a normal desktop Linux …

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Tagged android, androidtv, arm, debian, fv-1, linux, shanzhai | Comments

Mesada Flexiview FV-1 "AndroidTV" Technical Review

Posted on January 09, 2012

I'm calling this a "technical review" because I'm not going to spend much time talking about using Android on this device. The reason for that will become apparent.

I recently purchased two "Android TV" boxes from aliexpress, for investigation and general hackery.

Android TV front
Android TV back
Android TV remote

You can buy these from various online vendors …

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Tagged android, androidtv, arm, fv-1, linux, open source, shanzhai | Comments

Notes using scratchbox2 with debian multiarch

Posted on December 06, 2011

I'm a very recent (3 days) user of scratchbox2 for cross-compiling. My initial response was "this is crazy magic" awe, followed shortly by "this is a crazy mountain of hacks" skepticism. However, after some use & success now, it seems to be a really neat tool.

The best introductions to scratchbox2 …

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Notes on FTDI latency with Arduino

Posted on October 16, 2011

Today I Learned how to minimise latency when sending data to a computer from an Arduino (or any other FTDI-based device.) I learned it specifically for Windows, Linux and OS X.

Well, actually I learned this a few weeks ago while developing the [Hairless MIDI<->Serial Bridge]{style="white-space: nowrap …

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Developing & static linking Qt apps for Windows, using Linux & wine

Posted on September 04, 2011

I just started working on a simple cross-platform desktop application. I'm developing from Linux and hoping to build binaries for Linux, Windows and OS X.

This quick blog post are some notes I took about:

* Developing & building a Qt app for Windows, on Linux with wine.

* Building static Qt libraries …

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  • Unlocking an encrypted rootfs over ssh with Debian wheezy (or jessie)
  • Anatomy of a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter
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