saturday, 7 september 2024
RCS Wk1 Broken Broke the sd card slot on the NanoPi R5S trying to get the board out of the case - forgot that the sd card slides through the case. End of this attempt to get OpenBSD running on my NanoPi. Luckily it still works and boots the Ubuntu on the eMMC.

wednesday, 4 september 2024
S3 Parents Information Evening 18:00 Calc calc NanoPi R5 Trying to install OpenBSD on my NanoPi but failed to get it to boot either SD card or USB pendrive with miniroot76.img on… Using the eflasher image from FriendlyElec I manage to install Ubuntu.

monday, 3 june 2024
Ubuntu Pro sudo pro attach <token>

monday, 19 february 2024

monday, 29 august 2022
TIL convert convert -gravity option takes North, East, West, South, Center as well as NorthWest, NorthEast, SouthWest and SouthEast. convert in.jpg -filter spline -resize 100x100^ \    -gravity North -unsharp 0x1 -extent 100x100 out.jpg -unsharp 0x1 improves the image sharpness, and -extent determines the final size of the image. convert -geometry 1024x in.jpg out.jpg Resizing using -geometry convert -density 150 -font Ubuntu -fill "rgba(255,0,0,0.25)" -gravity Center -pointsize 80 -draw "rotate -45 text 0,0 'Uploaded by me'" in.jpg out.jpg and some watermarking. Imagemagick convert

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

saturday, 16 october 2021
WSL Currently playing with WSL , have installed debian and Ubuntu: wsl --install -d debian wsl --install -d Ubuntu By default WSL uses the computers hostname but this can be overridden by using a wsl.conf file: [network] hostname = wsl-deb generateHosts = fasle What can be configured in wsl.conf is shown in the WSL Configure . wsl

saturday, 4 april 2020
Nexus Upgraded Nexus to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - but on reboot I was unable to log in. So it it was back to 13.04.

friday, 3 april 2020
... at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ to upgrade to the latest 13. ...

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

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

thursday, 21 july 2016
... system list Notice the missing / ubuntu ...

tuesday, 22 march 2016
... my watch :~) console screen ubuntu fwf pebble ...

tuesday, 15 march 2016
... send a Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in. ubuntu vnc linux ...

monday, 22 february 2016
... networking was borked… upgrade ubuntu linux ethernet ...

friday, 19 february 2016
... nvim to edit this entry :~) linux ubuntu neovim vim ...

wednesday, 27 january 2016
File Permissions This answer gave to good tools for printing file permissions in octal: stat -c %a [filename] find [path] -print '%m %p\n' Which is a simpler approach to the problem than this stackoverflow post: ls -ltha | awk '{k=0;for(i=0;i Although the second answer works in OpenBSD and Ubuntu. permissions file awk

friday, 8 january 2016
Latex on Ubuntu Installed texlive on Ubuntu 14.04 but found I was getting: Latex Error: File `appendix.sty' was missing, this was resolved with: apt-get install texlive-latex-extra and then similar errors with `tracklang.sty' which was solved with: apt-get install texlive-generic-extra latex

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

friday, 3 february 2012
Ubuntu lsb_release -a to work out which version you are running. It's better than some OS 's but it's not a *BSD