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>

thursday, 1 january 2026
2nd Quarter Century has started… cgit cgit's certificate had expired back in October… Had to edit the firewall config to stop 403 errors. now all is good until it expires again in March 2026. Cynthion Playing with Cynthion on Debian trixie and was getting ModuleNotFoundErrors , this due to upgrading Debian to trixie and was fixed with: pipx reinstall cynthion

friday, 14 february 2025
Debian sudo apt remove --purge "program*" OpenBSD setxkbmap us Glove80 keyboard is currently set as US / International layout, so pipe and tilde are in the wrong place if using gb . Plotly A python graphing library.

thursday, 9 january 2025
Debian Wifi nmcli dev wifi scans the wireless network and displays access points and strength.

wednesday, 9 october 2024
ImageMagick montage a-{dog,lamb,rabbit,cat,horse}.jpg -tile 5x1 -geometry +0+0 out.jpg ZFSBootMenu Look into installing ZFS on NanoPi using ZFSBootMenu and Debian or Alpine on return from holiday .

tuesday, 24 september 2024
Dentist Debian fdisk -l To list disks in Debian, the -l flag lists the partition tables for the specified devices, or if no disks given all that are mentioned in /proc/partitions if it exists.

saturday, 16 october 2021
... debian and Ubuntu: wsl --install -d debian wsl --install -d Ubuntu By ...

sunday, 24 march 2019
... " BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" ...

monday, 7 may 2018
Debian in vmm(4) Debian 9 in vmm(4) vm openbsd

monday, 5 october 2015
qemu Running debian on OpenBSD in qemu. qemu

tuesday, 29 september 2015
... debian. Onion Omega mod sfa cyber debian onion omega ...

wednesday, 15 april 2015
Stuff from AGM Kids Games Kids packages available on Debian . Three Easy Pieces Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces is a free online operating systems book. irssi: windows An Illustrated Guide to Split Windows in Irssi : a useful guide for splitting windows in irssi . /window show # games os irc

friday, 1 august 2014
Introduction to Linux:lfs101x Signed up for this edX course - need to work out if it's worth doing the paid version. Started the course today, so far so good - a good general introduction. What system should I use? Linux freeshell.de 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux KVM on OpenBSD? Arch Linux on BBB Scottish Regional Round 10 17 August 2014 : entered. bmx

monday, 2 june 2014
... documentation goes into more depth. debian ...

monday, 3 march 2014
... viewer - had a similar issue on debian . The archlinux wiki was a useful ...

monday, 17 february 2014
... finding the Intel HDA sound card. debian ...

tuesday, 11 february 2014
... 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
... is now running on my laptop. debian vi redshift ...

thursday, 12 december 2013
... - following the instructions at debian wiki . The initial version of android ...

tuesday, 10 december 2013
... and autologin my mum. linux debian ...

thursday, 5 december 2013
... installed OS with debian . linux debian asus ...

monday, 2 september 2013
Chromium on Debian For some reason the mimeinfo.cache file had application/pdf set as gimp.desktop twice before evince.desktop - causing Chromium to use gimp to open pdf's - so removing the two dodgy gimp's solved the issue, and Chromium now uses evince to open pdf's diy.org backend dev chrome diy

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
... between OpenBSD and Debian. Installed debian in the first partition of the disk. ...

wednesday, 8 may 2013
Squeeze to Wheezy Upgraded my Debian box to Wheezy create an aptcache in home [ 1 ] apt-get dist-upgrade Foot Notes /var/ directory did not have enough space for the archives, so created a symlink from /var/apt/cache to /home/aptcache

saturday, 4 may 2013
Debian Wheezy Released

thursday, 2 may 2013
NAS Purchased a diskless ReadyNAS and two Toshiba 2TB external disks (Toshiba 2TB StorE Alu2 External Hard Drive from eBuyer quick link 234952 ), which I stripped down and put the disks in the ReadyNAS. Initially I had some issues with the ReadyNAS reporting "corrupt root" this turned out to be due to the disks not been set to boot in the disklabel, once set the disk to boot using fdisk on Debian, the unit installed the OS correctly on the drives. ssh Add-on Installed the ssh add-on which allows ssh access to the ReadyNAS: Linux FileStore 2.6.31.8.duov2 #1 Tue Aug 28 11:21:02 HKT 2012 armv5tel GNU/Linux Last login: Thu May 2 14:57:24 2013 from 192.168.5.9 root@FileStore:~# Still need to test backing up Beth's iPad…

thursday, 18 april 2013
CLI RAM : free  [ debian ] and a dmesg|grep mem for OpenBSD , or sysctl hw|grep mem CPU On Mac OS X sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string or system_profiler|grep -i process and on Debian: cat /proc/cpuinfo mode lines System Info: dmidecode Used cvt to get a working mode line for xrandr when gtf failed: Mode lines: cvt Brett Sommit Real Weird

monday, 15 april 2013
KVM Started playing with KVM on Debian to see if I can use this to replace any need for windows… Using the guide at http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO1 to test it out.

tuesday, 23 october 2012
Unix Timestamps date -r timestamp gives the date in human readable form on OpenBSD , date +%s gives the current unix timestamp (appears to work in *nix). The command in Debian / Ubuntu date -d @timestamp To get the time in a different timezone: TZ="America/New_York" date unix timestamps epoch

wednesday, 10 october 2012
Battery acpi is the debian equivalent of apm

tuesday, 22 may 2012
... tkinter using time.strftime debian python ...