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Summary Pros for the Bravo 2.0: Very comfortable main straps and sternum strap Padded back Waterproof main compartment with rolltop Strong velcro A couple exterior pockets Cons for the Bravo 2.0: Laptop compartment is not waterproof Velcro is loud, and cu…

The goal is to connect a non-WiFi computer to a WiFi network using a Raspberry Pi.

It was recently pointed out to me that Googlebot may try and filter out content that seems to be cheating the system.

Warning: I have stopped updating this article in favor of a similar, but updated, guide.

These are steps that I used on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) 64-bit system to build an amd64 (64-bit) Debian (stable) live environment that can boot from CD or USB.

You can use these instructions to create a bootable USB drive with GRUB that can run the Windows 10 installer.

Poor Docker performance on macOS is a well documented issue.

I have found that building Ember on Linux (with and without Docker) and Mac (without Docker) are fairly fast and all reasonably close in speed.

These steps are for configuring an NFS Linux server on Ubuntu.

The goal of this article is to compile and run a Samba server on a Mac using the open source version of Samba instead of Apple’s implementation of Samba.

I have a Late 2012 21.5" iMac with a dying 5400 RPM Drive.

I wanted to install macOS High Sierra on a virtual machine on my Mac so that I could debug some issues.

EXTLINUX is neat.

My research has led me to believe that there are no single-bay 2.5" diskless Thunderbolt 1 enclosures.

I wanted to try and understand just how much of a practical benefit I could get from an external drive enclosure with UASP (USB Attached SCSI).

Lakewood is a funny street.

In order to test this, you must have a WiFi card with monitor mode.

DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and LEDE are excellent firmware replacements for an access point.

I had used aircrack in the days of WEP to crack trivial passwords.

iperf3 is useful for testing the network throughput of your local network.

I am a big fan of hardware enabled write protect switches on flash drives.

It is relatively simple to get started with the Google Assistant SDK.

Simple scan with relatively nice resolution to png format. scanimage \ --format=png \ --resolution=300 \ > output.png Force US Letter dimensions. x and y correspond to mm.

Please consider that these instructions may not be the ideal solution depending on the needs of a given project.

Note that this article only applies to backlight control for the resistive touchscreen and that the backlight control for the capacitive touchscreen is limited I have been enjoying the Adafruit PiTFT 2.8" Resistive Touchscreen Display for Raspberry Pi.

These instructions can be used to create a simple computer kiosk that runs a full-screen instance of a web browser.

These instructions are not for a live install, but rather an installation of Debian to USB flash media.

zbarimg is a helpful command line tool that can take an image of a QR code and decode the underlying text represented by the code. zbarimg qr-code.png This is helpful if you want to decode a Google Authenticator TOTP (Time-based one time password), or any…

I recently ran into a problem where I was not able to ping, SSH, or otherwise connect to a computer on my home network.

The stock Debian installer provided by Debian is fantastic.

Clone concourse-docker locally on Ubuntu. git clone https://github.com/concourse/concourse-docker Change to the concourse-docker directory. cd concourse-docker Generate keys for your local linux Concourse environment. .

This process is really easy thanks to Semaphore’s guide.

I had added my user to the group lp, but still got this error when trying to list printers. $ lpinfo -v lpinfo: Forbidden I found that the key was in this post on the Arch Linux Forums. sudo groupadd printadmin sudo usermod -a -G printadmin $USER Then I h…

This functionality is provided by the pdfjam package on Arch Linux. # Join multiple pdfs, sorted by alpha pdfjoin *.pdf # Join multiple images, sorted by alpha pdfjoin *.jpg # Join pdfs as listed pdfjoin 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf # Join everything into a pdf pdfj…

This command uses find to recursively print all files and directories under a given directory tree.

YUMI and UNetbootin are both very user-friendly and simple applications for creating bootable USB drives with persistence.

These are the steps I typically use to bootstrap an rclone install on Windows.

The -S flag allows encfs4win to read passwords from stdin on Windows.

This is a one liner to get into vagrant, run a command, and when that command exits, keep your SSH session up and running rather than terminating.

This is my script to perform an unattended silent install of Cygwin on Windows without use of the wizard.

This sort of behavior can be very frustrating.

You can automatically unlock and mount LUKS encrypted volumes at boot by specifying the volumes and their keys in /etc/crypttab.

I am assuming that your Arch Linux system is using, or will use, dhcpcd.

In this case we are mounting a share on a Mac client from a Linux NFS server.

My instructions are based on this article for getting Arch to support the 88SE6145 SATA II PCI-E Marvell controller.

Notice what happens here when changing a setting.

The validation here seems to be based on focus and blur, which is a little aggressive in my opinion.

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To assist in troubleshooting, I wanted to generate JWT (JSON Web Tokens) on-the-fly with bash.

This is a trivial example, but is meant to demonstrate how you can pipe arguments to a bash function. #!