Ubuntu 10.10 r8192se_pci driver on the Toshiba Satellite T130-17E (Realtek...
I’ve been home for a few days with a really bad back, and the only thing I’ve been able to do is watch tv, and some minor work with the laptop. I’ve been running Windows 7 which it was delivered with...
View ArticleBugs, bugs and more bugs
Lately, I’ve come to realize more and more that bug handling in open source, and specifically in Ubuntu has dramatically declined in efficiency. For years I’ve been extremely satisfied with using Linux...
View ArticleFinding the Zone.
Several years ago at one of my first jobs, right smack at the end of the dot-com boom over here, we had a dartboard. What good is a dartboard you ask? I don’t know, we also had a pinball machine, but I...
View ArticleFMEA of Door and conclusions
If Cavemen had done an FMEA of the door when it was invented, this would possibly be the outcome. Item Potential Failure mode Potential Effects of failure Severity Rating Potential Causes Occurence...
View ArticlePlaying with LinuxMCE and thoughts
Long time no writing for various reasons. I’ve played around with LinuxMCE for a few days as it looked like a really sweet solution for home automation etc. I’ve previously had a HTPC running mythbuntu...
View ArticleMat Honan hack “cloud isn’t so bad” comment
Just read this by Ron Miller and while I don’t mind the cloud (I use several cloud services extensively), I do think he’s completely missing the point. Yes, the cloud is as vulnerable as any other...
View ArticleXBMCBuntu stole my heart
As some who have read this site before might remember, I didn’t have much luck with LinuxMCE as a media center for my home (basically I couldn’t get any functionality working properly. I got a lot of...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.10 on Dell Precision M4600 APIC issues
I’ve recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Precision M4600 and had some APIC issues when trying to reboot, the same as everyone else seems to have pretty much. After upgrading the BIOS from A08 to...
View ArticleReflashing GlobalScale Mirabox filesystem
I just worked my way through reflashing the mirabox and figured I’d post some instructions on how to do it. I’ve used the descriptions from this http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3880.0 post...
View ArticleMirabox dist-upgrade causes system to deadlock/hang on bootup
I think there’s something bad going on between GlobalScales patches in the rootfs images they have for download for the mirabox when doing an apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of debian. This...
View ArticleServer update
The server was updated during the last week thanks to very good friends at http://www.haringstad.com. The old server had some issues with sporadic crashes causing a some downtime over the last two...
View ArticleServer troubles
Since the server update we’ve experienced several issues causing disruptions and downtimes. We believe that the issue causing the problems have been addressed and that webserver should resume normal...
View ArticleRaspicam and OpenCV instructions
I have previously gotten the opencv and python bindings to work via the 2.3 opencv system and facial recognition did work, but the system is bugged out and I could only get 64x64px image size. I...
View ArticleMore server issues and bad links fixed
Several more server issues where found which in turn caused the server to DoS’ing itself with disk-io. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, personal life has taken too much time simply. Also, based on...
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1 hour Raspberry pi camera controller
Kids really chew into your spare time. I got some time the other day to have some fun with a Raspberry pi, raspicam, Adafruit pwm servo driver, 2 servos, double sided tape, tape and cardboard. In 60...
View ArticleMoving to new host
A small update, I will unfortunately be moving to a new host within the upcoming weeks. I’ve been graciously hosted by http://www.haringstad.com for the last… many years and I am tremenduously grateful...
View ArticleServer move update
Most of the server move was finished during the last few days and no major interruptions of services where endured as far as I can tell except due to some cock-up with the SSL certificates. The new...
View ArticleSmall project (continuous rotation servo)
For a very long time I’ve been a little bit obsessed with continuously rotating servos and searched quite a bit for them online, but never finding any cheap servos available. Probably just me being a...
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Raspberry Pi + 2x Arduino Nano V3.0
Quick update, during my evenings I’ve been working with one of the Raspberry Pi’s I won on a local contest a few months ago, and it’s generally derailed into some kind of “let’s put as much stuff on it...
View ArticleArduino nano computer controlled Pulse generator
Most projects as of late are kind of stopped indefinitely due to lack of time (who could have thought 2 kids could take so much time…) . I am working on 2-3 things whenever I do get a few minutes in...
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