friday, 2 january 2026
labelle Added the 24mm tape that is supported by the Dymo LabelManager PC II diff .local/pipx/venvs/labelle/lib/python3.13/site-packages/labelle/lib/devices/dymo_labeler.py code/labelle/src/labelle/lib/devices/dymo_labeler.py 243c243 SUPPORTED_TAPE_SIZES_MM = (19, 12, 9, 6) Cynthion Needed to update GTK to get packetry to run this was achieved with: sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev This upgraded GTK from 4.8 to 4.18, which allowed packetry to run. My first test device was the Dymo LabelManager PC II plugged into the same Debian laptop that I was running cynthion from. Initially I was not capturing any packets as the capture mode was high speed (480Mbps), but when I switched it to Full (12Mbps) it started capturing. Successfully captured the printer printing a labelle --sample-pattern 256 using the Low (1.5Mbps) speed settings in packetry ./p>

friday, 3 october 2025
Dell BIOS update Used rufus to create a FreeDOS usb pendrive, then rebooted the Latitude 7290, using F12 to get to boot options, I had tried F1 but it's F2 on the 7290. From the F12 boot options menu there was a BIOS Flash Update option which found the update exe file on the usb pen drive. The BIOS upgrade went smoothly and the 7290 is now running "1.42.0" from the previous "1.33.0". 2600: The Gamer Club 153 Bath Lane

monday, 15 september 2025
texlive 2025 Edd posted an update to texlive, so to test it I built it. By default the port installs the minimial package but I need to test full for the handbook, but I could work out how to build subpackages, reading ports.7 answered the query: doas env SUBPACKAGE='-full' make install but you need to be in print/texlive/texmf not print/texlive directory in ports. Now need to fix biber…

tuesday, 9 september 2025
Battery Replacment Finally replaced the battery in my Sony SRS-XB12, putting the new battery in was easy replacing some of the screws was harder, but with my new Wera comet My LetsEncrypt cert was expiring tomorrow so I updated it today, and there was a firmware upgrade that I was expecting to blow away, the ssl files, but this update left them in place so updating the server.crt in /etc/kvmd/user/ssl/ was straight forward. Restarting nginx to pick up the new cert: /etc/init.d/S99kvmd-nginx

thursday, 28 august 2025
GL-RM1 Comet Comet had another updated which lost the SSL certificate which had moved to /etc/kvmd/user/ssl/server.crt thus allowing it work in chrome without warnings. EDID The comet EDID settings didn't seem right so I used the Linux hardware EDID list that screen details for Q34E2G5 which had 4 blocks of EDID hex the first block worked, for my AOC Q34E2A . Then I realised that 2560x1080 resolution of the screen, but I need the resolution of the HP display panel which is 1920x1080 resolution — but no luck finding the EDID for the EliteBook 855 G8 panel…

sunday, 24 august 2025
Ender 3 Was having hot bed issues, so replaced the hot bed (this ender is the ship of thesesus of 3D printers), updated to the latest firmware. Using clips to hold the build plate on, need to get a magnetic adhesive bed, as a result of changing the bed. … need to be patient the ender takes for ever to get ready… Replaced the nozzle and heat cover. First tiny test printed with a few issues.

thursday, 12 june 2025
Book VAN MOT Expires 10 July 2025 . GL-RM1 Comet To use acme-client on OpenBSD I created a key doas openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -keyout /etc/ssl/private/comet.key I then set up an alias on httpd for comet in httpd.conf restarted httpd : rcctl restart httpd Then I copied the key and the certificate to the GL-RM1 Comet and put them in the /etc/kvmd/nginx/ssl/ directory, after backing up the orignal server key and certificate file and then reboot the device… Need to work out how to just restart nginx … Now I will need to update the certificate every 90 days, and will need to change the DNS to point at the webserver rather than the internal address.

wednesday, 11 june 2025
filling partitions Finding out what filled your partition: du -xcd2 / | sort -r | head -20 du -c display total after all arguements processed -d depth do not display entries more than depth -x file system mount points not traversed sort -r sort in reverse order OpenSCAD Currently marked broken in OpenBSD due to boost update.

wednesday, 4 june 2025
Dell Latitude 7290 Motherboard upgrade to i7-8650U from i5. The new dmesg shows the update. The motherboard replacement was simple and straight forward, the reason it was not done sooner was I need to order new thermal paste when swapping the motherboards. Ordered NT-H2 Thermal Paste. Might put the i5 motherboard in a 7280 model…

monday, 19 may 2025
pwnagotchi The USB ethernet gadget on my pwnagotchi was working, and then I realised that I had removed the WaveShare POE shield which had dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=host in the config.txt removing the dr_mode=host restored the USB ehternet gadget. ntpdate ntpdate was not picking up the time from my ntpd but when I add the host to /etc/hosts it successfully update the time… FlipperZero Installed Unleashed - time to have a play…

sunday, 9 march 2025
dump1090 Having moved my MLAT feeder I needed to update the /etc/default/adsbexchange file and then ran doas systemctl restart adsbexchange-mlat doas systemctl restart adsbexchange-feed Which put my ADS-B antenna in the right place. To work out your coordinates and elevation you can use www.mapcoordinates.net . CLI page has information on using the stats package to get a personalised map, this might be a starting point… dump1090

wednesday, 19 february 2025
TeX Live TeX Live for Open BSD is a usefull resource for building TeX Live directly, rather than using ports. biber Downloaded the binaries, moved them to /usr/local/bin/ made them executable chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/biber* and then had the following error: ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.10, expected version 4.0. This means that your biber (4.0) and biblatex (3.19) versions are incompatible. I realised that I had used the new TeX Live 2025 biber and not 2024… and the 2024 binaries were no longer available… So pkg_delete the texlive packages, then updated so that I could install gpgme , then awesome was broken :~( Remove lines starting with a comma sed '/^,/d' filename

sunday, 1 december 2024
Advent Alpine Was looking for dig and whereis they were found by installing: doas apk add --update bind-tools doas apk add --update util-linux Time to build moodle…

tuesday, 18 june 2024

wednesday, 22 may 2024
8 years ago… The ifconfig.c patch applied but the ifconfig.8 patch had to update manually - patch

tuesday, 14 may 2024
X395 updated bios in windows ( download ) BIOS Security Tab -> TSME [Enabled] -> Secure Boot [Disabled] Need to work out how to set up secure boot. dd if=install75.img of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m password for disk was wrong installer installer keyboard was default for the BIOS, not en-GB  

friday, 1 march 2024
apk Updated my packages on my PinePhone - and as postmarketOS is alpine base is used apk .

tuesday, 12 december 2023
Helensburgh Eye Care 09:35 New Pump Track G69 9DD CVS cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.spacehopper.org:/cvs -q up -Pd Updating ports to checkout Jukebox on Navidrome. Once my ports tree was up to date I ran the following commands: for i in fetch-all makesum checksum extract build fake plist; do make $i; done followed by doas make install pump tracks navidrome cvs

monday, 31 october 2022
ID3 Tags Tag Removal Strip Tags PineTime Noticed new update to Red Nectarine InfiniTime so I updated my PineTime using itd which took a bit of time to download the correct file from github, and then flashed it to my PineTime: itctl fw upg --archive pinetime-mcuboot-app-dfu-1.11.0.zip The firmware then needed to be validated in the Settings of InfiniTime. I need to upload the new resources to make use of the new watch faces… Factors Factors is a quantity that when multiplied by another factor gives the enitre quantity. TIL that to get decimal places from bc you need to start it either with -l the artbitrary precision math library, or set scale=n where n is the number of decimal places: bc scale=4 1/16 .0625 InfiniTime factors

wednesday, 31 august 2022
New Octopus Go Tariff Change car charge times to: 23:30 to 03:30 mepo Added mepo to sxmo and Phosh . The package is currently in testing so when using doas apk add mepo-wayland was getting the package not found error. This was resolved with the following command: doas apk add mepo-wayland --update-cache --repository http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/ Brel 37-43 Ashton Ln, Hillhead, Glasgow G12 8SJ Drinks: 17:00 Dinner 19:00 Glasgow Central 22:00 train from Crewe.

tuesday, 17 may 2022
Joy.js Nutshell Beta Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Upgrade Upgrade kept failling, partially resolved by: tmux new -s upgrade sudo apt update sudo apt dist-update With some sudo dpkg --configure -a interspered. Lost Gnome - put the package dependancy's are on future ones which are not in the repo atm

monday, 16 may 2022
TQFE TQFE consultation closes today. import this import this Perl Secret's PineTime Installed siglo via flatpak on Ubuntu, as NRF failed to update PineTime to InfiniTime 1.9.8. InfiniTime is C++ based but LupYuen's PineTime is based on Rust and MyNewt. arc4random /src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random_uniform.c can be viewed on cvsweb due a thread . TQFE python perl pinetime arc4random_uniform

sunday, 20 february 2022
CVS Updating source on OpenBSD: cvs -q up -Pd -A cvs

monday, 24 january 2022
bitly You can report dodgy bit.ly URL 's to this form brew Updated brew packages, which included tmux but I didn't close my tmux sessions before the update, this lead to the following error: server version is too old for client . Note to self close tmux session before updating. abuse bitly tmux brew

monday, 15 november 2021
Snapshots Updating my OpenBSD snapshot and came across this X server change which resulted in some big fonts. Patent Inspiration fonts X openbsd

friday, 29 october 2021
PinePhone To connect my MacBook to the pine phone I used: ioreg -p IOUSB to find out which USB serial device to use. Then used cu -l /dev/cu.usbserial-1420 -s 115200 to connect - needed sudo to get access. PineTime NRFConnect can be used to connect the pinetime to update the firmware. When the battery goes flat the firmware reverts to the orginal pinetime firmware. Asda Preston Eastway, Fulwood Preston, PR2 9UY PinePhone

wednesday, 27 october 2021
Infini Time Using nRF Connect on my Gemini phone I update my PineTime watch to Infini Time InfiniTime PineTime

wednesday, 13 january 2021
X41 Thinkpad Drivers X41 hard disk updates x41

saturday, 4 july 2020

sunday, 17 may 2020

wednesday, 2 october 2019
Let's Encrypt Update certs...

wednesday, 18 september 2019
Freshers Sports Fair 10:00 - 16:00 University Centre, 347 Cathedral Street, G1 2TB Mechatronics & Automation 13:00 - 13:00 DMEM Studio JW706 Welcome 13:45 - 15:30 DMEM Studio JW706 Folio Development Skills and DMEM software guide Careers BP Skills Refinery : for developing skills for today's work… WordPress Updating Wordpress from the cli : doas -u www wp core update GIL Python GIL . PG python GIL

friday, 13 september 2019

tuesday, 30 april 2019
Exams: PC Rock64 Successfully booted my Pine64 Rock64 - using Ubuntu. Still no useful output on the serial console. Being Ubuntu I had to run sudo update-alternatives --config editor to set the default editor to the Vim flavour of vi :~) BMX Beginners

wednesday, 7 november 2018
RPi3 Updating my RPi3 to OpenBSD 6.4 U-Boot# fatload usb 0:1 0xC0700000 bootcode.bin

sunday, 1 july 2018
... PDA Partition Tool : for Gemini PDA. mtb gemini ...

thursday, 17 may 2018
... Crowson (@fcbsd) May 16, 2018 PDA Gemini Prime Karma: 3023 checked ...

tuesday, 1 may 2018
doitlive Updated doitlive : a session demonstration package - rehease a live demo ;~) pip3.6 install doitlive export LANG=C.UTF-8 doitlive play session.sh BMX: St Martha's BMX Club 15:00 bmx record terminal session

thursday, 19 april 2018
theft Built theft using clang, by setting CC = /usr/bin/clang in the Makefile, gmake, gmake test and gmake install worked. Teaching Computing Reflective Grid: Week 1 Successes Problems Eureka Moments Questions Wifi Replaced an athn0 with an iwn0 in my IdeaPad S3 and was getting iwn0: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory and noticed /bsd: iwn0: could not read firmware iwn-6000 (error 2) error messages so a quick fw_update and all was good. testing c cpd wifi iwn

tuesday, 20 february 2018

saturday, 3 february 2018
BMX Cluster Sessions 09:30 Beginners / Under 9's 12:30 Over 10's (14:30 finish) Two good sessions - need to reflect… Four novice riders and 14 expert riders. RPi3 Updating -current on my RPi3 so that I can use iperf3 for network testing. It all went pair shaped - U-Boot failed to find the USB drive, and also failed to boot with no SD card. Reinstalled on a new USB drive, but still not finding OS to boot. bmx rpi

tuesday, 9 january 2018
CentOS Broke my CentOS VM when my laptop battery went flat during a yum update this cause booting to fail. Needed to do a yum-complete-transaction but need to install yum install yum-utils ... broken! yum centos

tuesday, 28 november 2017
SSL Certificate Expiry SSL certificate will expire at 17:00 today. Updated acme-client using the process mentioned in this entry. Computer Science Teacher Book Ordered CST letsencrypt acme ssl

sunday, 26 november 2017
SSL Certificate Expiry: 2 days Update SSL cert.

wednesday, 27 september 2017
pfctl Update a table for blocking unwanted bot attention: doas pfctl -t idiots -T replace -f /etc/idiots And to view the table: doas pfctl -t idiots -T show pf

sunday, 10 september 2017

thursday, 18 may 2017
Net4501 Was updating my Net4501 and was getting: No Boot device available, enter monitor. and realised my comBios was 1.28 so I updated it: > download Start sending file using XMODEM/CRC protocol. CC~XLocal file? b4501_133.bin cu: b4501_133.bin: sending block 1 (attempt 1) … cu: b4501_133.bin: completed 97 blocks File downloaded succesfully, size 608 Blocks. > flashupdate Updating BIOS Flash ,,,,,,,,,,,,..,,,,.. Done. This fixed the No Boot device and then I set up about upgrading to OpenBSD 6.1. cu

wednesday, 1 march 2017
... learning Gemini PDA Backed the Gemini PDA. Due in November 2017. cs pda ...

tuesday, 16 august 2016
Keeping Ubuntu Clean sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get autoremove Following some /boot has 0 bytes free messages… apt linux

tuesday, 17 may 2016
WAVE Wave report for this site PageSpeed Google developer tools. OpenBSD 6.0-beta Playing with 6.0-beta OpenBSD 6.0-beta (GENERIC.MP) #2057: Mon May 16 18:30:13 MDT 2016 deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 17037066240 (16247MB) avail mem = 16516124672 (15751MB) Updating Neovim NVIM v0.1.5-215-gc9b1ad3 To get neovim to build on OpenBSD 6.0-beta hand edit uv.cmake and dns.c as per the commit to luv which fixed the neovim build broken on OpenBSD . PageSpeed wave OpenBSD neovim

wednesday, 6 april 2016
pebble Pebble Firmware update to Version 3.11.1, and updated my Watch Face to add a battery monitor - using five circles. The emulator kept crashing with: [ERROR] ault_handling.c: App fault! crashed inside firmware call It also crashed on my pebble time so changed back to version 1.0 while trying to work out how to fix this bug. Version 1.0 is now published . fwf pebble

tuesday, 22 march 2016
Ubuntu Serial Console Building a wireless access point for Health & Wellbeing, needed to update my alix , which required console access. My work Surface Pro running Ubuntu 15.10 wily I connected my usb serial cable which showed up as: Mar 22 09:17:00 surface-pro-3 kernel: [ 2297.789856] usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 This confused me as I was expecting ttyS0 , installed screen to talk on serial and connected with sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 38400 [screen terminated] These messages occur when you don't have permission to access ttyUSB0 . pebble Uploading the app from CloudPebble was as simple as getting the pbw file from the browser on my phone then opening the file, which loaded it to my watch :~) console screen ubuntu fwf pebble

monday, 29 february 2016
Dentist 09:15 BMX Regional Meeting 7pm Cumbernauld Coaching Guidelines British Cycling released an update coaching guidelines. dentist srbw bmx coaching

monday, 22 february 2016
Ubuntu Prompt appeared stuck at: [ OK ] Starting LSB: AppArmor initialzation This was resolved with a Ctrl-C which allowed the boot to continue. Once booted a sudo dpkg --configure -a and sudo apt-get update resolved the upgrade. dcrowson@alfresco-sf3:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a Linux alfresco-sf3 4.4.0-6-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 16 20:32:27 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial When installing software as part of the installation, services are added to start those applications on boot. To disable this use update-rc.d usb ethernet adpaters Had two network adapters as shown, they both had the same mac address 00:e0:4c:53:44:58 so of course networking was borked… upgrade ubuntu linux ethernet

saturday, 31 october 2015
ports make update-patches make update-plist make port-lib-depends-check For debugging ld: export LD_DEBUG=1 pcc Needs pcc-libs pcc ports

sunday, 25 october 2015
Pan Screen 7 [12:45] 893972899 BMX Coaching 13:30 to 14:30 Beginners Session 14:45 to 15:45 Advanced Session pcc Update to ppc to 1.1.0 but then ld doesn't link correctly... Order number: CRC2186436674 bmx

friday, 23 october 2015
Fonts MyFonts Foundry Guides entr Updated entr 3.2 - a few minutes before 3.3 was released so sent an updated patch . ultra Updated ultra to -current. fonts entr ultra

thursday, 27 august 2015
SLUG Planning meeting for next year of SLUG picard Cross-platform music tagger written in Python - updated the port to release 1.3.2. The code is now on github: musicbrainz/picard . Used diff -uNr -x CVS /path/to/openbsd/ports mystuff/port to generate the diff. lug ports

wednesday, 26 august 2015
hub Need to alias git=hub to use hub: port:fred ~/code/git> git version git version 2.4.6 port:fred ~/code/git> alias git=hub port:fred ~/code/git> git version git version 2.4.6 hub version 2.2.1 This allowed me to push my doas change to shutdownd . Also updated CLI with doas . arandr Submitted a patch to Edd to update arandr. shutdownd doas git arandr

saturday, 4 april 2015
Python Binary Clock Created a binary clock widget, code is in a gist . Was getting AttributeError: object has no attribute 'strftime' errors, initially, this turn out to be name space collision errors - I had initially named the file time.py . Colour Time Binary Updated colourtime.js to create a btime function, which uses the javascript toString(2) [1] Number.prototype.toString() : The toString() method returns a string representing the specified Number object. to convert the time to binary for the binary clock:   code js python

wednesday, 25 february 2015
Tah Working out the Pin Out on the Tah needed my Bus Pirate table Mode MOSI MISO UART TX RX Downloaded the freeware version of Eagle as kicad was unable to view the Tah hardware .sch files: Following the advice on stackoverflow I used Pacifist to install the JDK 7 update on Mac OS X 10.6.8, this was needed to get the Tah-Android app working in Android Studio. Developer Options Had to tap the Build Number 7 times to enable Developer Options on my Samsung Galaxy SIII (model number GT-I9300). coreboot The coreboot blog is worth a read. tah mobile

wednesday, 7 january 2015
sevendays Freelance website: build profile. track it Chrome Crashing Changes to libevent: cd /usr/src/lib/libevent cvs up -PdA make obj && make && sudo make install

wednesday, 12 november 2014
CLI commands Show the most commonly used terminal commands blog post, and also a bad words post. ack ack is a search tool written in Perl. A cheeky OpenBSD user complained that it was out of date : it was a fairly trivial update so I replied with a diff cvs diff -uN * > ack2.14.diff and Stuart sensibly and politely replied with a better approach :~) So Nigel provided a correct diff and I tested it on i386, amd64 and sparc64. Ag Is another searching tool - time to give it a shot. [1] here

thursday, 25 september 2014
e Radio 4 did a program on e this morning - need to listen to it. Scot LUG Meeting Scotlug meet at Electron Club at 19:00 at CCA . Alice Grove Comic by Jeph Jacques which updates twice a week and started in September 2014.

wednesday, 21 may 2014
Lemon Crunch Pie I've update the ingredients for Lemon Crunch Pie today - following a successful pie. funny runtime error. should i walk (y/n) Joke courtesy of -f signature block

wednesday, 23 april 2014
Zaurus While trying to get the updated openbsd55_arm.ipk on to my Zaurus - I swapped out the sd card with the ports and www directory on - this caused boot to drop into single user mode. Coventry Building Society Coventry branch finder BMX Committee Meeting BMX track vimrc A useful titbit of Indentation information about vim from Marc Espie: sw=4 not tabstop=4 entr See Figure 1 DragonFly BSD Digest Should make a quick link for this one drop connection Eclipse have dropped the network again: 01392 330 296

friday, 4 april 2014
Keeping an OpenBSD Installation Clean Some excellent advice from Stu Henderson , do everything through ports (locally written / updated if necessary) and: pkg_delete -a & -X -a Delete unused dependancies -X Delete everything, except the list of packages that follow OpenBSD

thursday, 27 march 2014
squeak and scratch updates Stu updated scratch and sqeak : which provides the vm for scratch. port:fred ~> SC_DIR=/usr/local/share/scratch/ scratch The start up script needs to be edited. ports

wednesday, 19 march 2014
Ztype Final Score: 001328 Accuracy: 85.7% WPM: 40.4 bison Started to try and update > bison but it needs to use our m4… (see updating bison error ). ports help show the use of the portslogger tool: make install 2>&1 | /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/portslogger ./ mpd Set up MPD and installed ario (gtk client) and ncmpc( cl client) and used the daemonforums how-to. Also installed id3ed to edit tags in my mp3 so the correct artist and file information is available. id3ed -i filename.mp3 This shows the tag information for an mp3 file.

tuesday, 11 march 2014
redshift Sent the diff complete with grammatical errors to ports@ , after testing on i386 - following ports unlock last week, and the work on updating the port that I had done on 24 Feb 14 . Needed to add a new message file, so needed to add the file to cvs prior to doing the diff: cvs add filename followed by cvs diff -uN filename This put the message file into the diff.

friday, 28 february 2014

tuesday, 11 february 2014
ia32-libs on debian wheezy To install the printer drivers for a Canon iP2702 I had to download the linux driver from Canon Asia . This driver is written for i386 and the machine it is plugged into is running amd64 so I needed ia32-libs: sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ARM Info arm infocenter arm debian

monday, 10 february 2014
x11vnc Set up x11vnc on debian for remote support. created .vnc folder put the password file for x11vnc in the .vnc folder To get x11vnc to start on system start up I created a x11vnc.desktop file in .config/autostart containing: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=x11vnc Comment=VNC Exec=/usr/bin/x11vnc -many -rfbauth /home/margaret/.vnc/vncmum -ncache -oa /var/log/x11vnc.log StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false php: done right? arandr Updated to an new snapshot and arandr broke see marc . vnc php arandr

tuesday, 4 february 2014
debian Setting up Dell Studio Hybrid (model Hybrid-6222) as a debian machine as my mother's desktop machine - following the problems ensuing a CryptoLocker incident - the trouble with being Windows based… update-alternatives --config editor First job post installation to ensure a decent editor: vi (although it's actually vim-tiny :~\) redshift Came across redshift as a result of the jcs interview on lobsters . redshift -l 50.7:1.12 -t 5700:3700 -g 0.8 -m vidmode -v is now running on my laptop. debian vi redshift

friday, 24 january 2014
Gitolite Finally set up a gitolite server for my dev stuff. git git push worked when I had set git config remote.origin.url to be _git@git rather than user@git. pkg_add tests pkg_add tests : the pkg* tools have gone through a large change so upgrading from 5.4 to 5.5: pkg_info -mq > list -m only show packages tagged as manual installations -q be 'quiet', just dump raw info. pkg_delete * Then update to 5.5 and then install new packages: pkg_add -z -l list -l file install from raw output of pkg_info(1) -z fuzzy package addition: pkg_add will do its best to match package names.

tuesday, 14 january 2014
BitCoin Bit Visitor are now paying out every 100uBTC - an increase of 40uBTC - so another 40 hours before an initial payout. It also looks like it is failing to update the balance, with every click. My CoinBox account is now colleccting small amounts from Get Bitcoins Quick and other bitcoin sites.

thursday, 9 january 2014
Independent Publisher : a word press theme. Pac-Man OpenSCAD update in OpenBSD ports OpenSCAD updated to 2013.06

thursday, 12 december 2013

saturday, 26 october 2013
WordPress Couldn't remember the admin password that I had set on the development word press server that I set up so I logged into the database and changed the password directly: mysql> update wp_users set user_pass=md5('aNewPassWord') where id=1;

thursday, 24 october 2013
Chrome Chromium turned up in the packages again - but the crashing when opening the settings tab was still there. In the process of installing Chrome thunderbird stopped opening links with: ** (thunderbird:9931): WARNING **: Could not launch default application for URI: Failed to execute child process "chrome" (Is a directory) when I edited the userapp-Firefox-*.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ and ensured that firefox was pointing to the right place this fixed the issue. Chromium Update Issue now fixed: 4 Nov 2013

friday, 26 july 2013
Disk Layout Reinstall Debian wheezy after repartioning my hard disk to create an NTFS and DOS partition between the Linux LVM and my OpenBSD partitions. update-alternatives --config java update-alternatives --config javaws Required to get android studio running following an error: tools.jar is not in Android Studio classpath

thursday, 11 july 2013
Portege R830-13C Bought a refurbished Toshiba Portege R830-13C laptop, on first boot I pressed F2 and set the BIOS to boot from CD, I then put in my OpenBSD 5.3 CD, and installed OpenBSD 5.3. I then downloaded and installed OpenBSD 5.4-beta. The plan is to have this laptop dual booting between OpenBSD and Debian. Installed debian in the first partition of the disk. Getting GRUB to play ball was a nightmare - the documentation did not mention the solution: menuentry 'OpenBSD' { set root=(hd0,openbsd1) chainloader +1 boot } This needs to go in the 40_cutom file,then run: update-grub to update the appropriate grub files. Virgin Media Currently my ip address is 82.19.254.199 and the gateway is 82.19.252.1 Today was the first time that the network appeared to drop…

monday, 17 june 2013
Gudbrandsdalsost Eating some Gudbrandsdalsost - Norwegian goat and cow's milk cheese - awesome! U-Boot Just load the kernel via tftp and run it with 'go' command - hint from tech@ mailing list Zaurus Updated my zaurus - in preparation for seeing if I can build a beagle kernel on an arm platform…

thursday, 21 july 2011
Muppetry Updated my Thinkpad X41 Laptop to OpenBSD 5.0-beta, used sysmerge to update /etc and then when I tried to start X it failed with: (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found This was due to OpenBSD not allowing X to access the memory and was fixed by uncommenting the sysctl.conf 'machdep.allowaperture=' setting, and was the first line in the Xorg.0.log file: (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/xf86 and /dev/mem (Operation not permitted) Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine refer to xf86(4) for details