New year, old projects

People love working on new things all the time, however I've got lots of repos on Gitlab.com that I want keep updated for myself.

One of those projects is this blog, which source code I've taken private permanently.

However, other projects that I've recently updated …

Madness in boxes

So around black friday I was running through my card board boxes that have all sorts of cables and other PC accessories.

I wanted to a buy a new mouse for my desktop, because the previous one's scroll wheel was pushing me into madness.

But I managed …

Windows 10 on hardware

I need Windows 10 today to try to root my Xiaomi Android phone, but first I have to unlock the bootloader, which is the most annoying process I have ever been through.

I tried many programs found on XDA-developers or /r/xiaomi, but none of them …

Update to this post

I put my Raspberry Pi2 to use by installing Retropie on a functioning SD card.

The issues I mention below were most likely due to failing/corrupt sd cards.

Why use a Raspberry pi at all?

They're great devices for learning a different operating system when …

Trying out the oldest available CentOS images

I use Debian all the time, however I also like CentOS for a couple of reasons.

It's nice that Yum/DNF has transaction history and the ability to undo/redo a certain installation/removal of packages.

What is however great is the longer …

Migrating email from one service to another

I'm currently working on migrating from OVH's pro email service to Gsuite.

Experience with OVH's mail service

My monthly cost with OVH's service has been £2.49 since last year.

I've started using Mail Pro since end of September last year.

From my …

My homelab computers

I have 4 computers at home that each have their own use.

I have a desktop that I built in 2016/11 that is my main computer and which I use the most and code from.

I also have a HP Probook 6570b which is my laptop …

Draw.io is nice!

It's a program that make nice diagrams and so many other things.

Works OK in a browser, on desktops and it's cross platform.

I've seen many nice network diagrams on /r/homelab and saw draw.io recommended in the comments.

Running it locally

There's a handy …

Dilbert.com scraper

I wrote a dilbert.com comics scraper in bash about 3 years ago because I really love Dilbert comics.

While I assume people will scream if they look at the code in dilbert.sh and date generator python script, they have worked fairly reliably for 3 years …

First impressions

I've been running Debian systems at home for about 3+ years.

I really like the distribution for the package availability and quality.

Buster(Debian 10) comes with kernel 4.19, which is a long term release(LTS) kernel.

On kernel.org, it's said to be supported until December …