>NIL:'s Techno Feats

Let's say you had to reinstal Windows 7, due to Microsoft having screwed so bad with its automatic update installer that it was the only...

Now ain't that useful. From time to time you have to part with an old disk, but of course, you're rather make sure it is properly er...

If you ever need to edit /etc/shadow to add an MD5 password manually (yes, this can happen for very legitimate reasons): # openssl passwd ...

Every once in a while, I find that I want to upgrade my WRT54G in a clean fashion. And every once in a while, it's a massive struggle to...

Let us suppose the following situation: You have a Linux server with a software RAID1 array ( md ) and, for one reason or another (mostly be...

If you're plugging USB drives in an out and using LILO to boot a Linux distro (eg. Slackware) you may have ended up with a kernel panic ...

I'm doing this frequently enough to warrant a post. Make sure you use a kernel with console enabled Confirm that your serial tty'...

Well, since audio and video software editors are still not there yet, a quick recepy. Say you have a H264/DTS MKV video file and you want to...

Doesn't work by default. Wanna know why? /etc/minirc.dfl is missing a Line Feed. Yes, really, all you need to do is add an extra blank l...

Focusing on Linux + LILO setup, to (hopefully) conclude this series. At this stage, you are supposed to have a standalone GPT/GUID disk, wit...

Tuning the OSX installation Just a placeholder for now, as I still need for figure a few things. This will encompass removing the need to up...

Alright, on to the actual OSX installation. This assumes that you have sorted out the matter of getting your SATA controllers detetected, an...

With both the iBoot CD and the OSX installation USB key rearing to go (see previous post), it's time to insert them both, and reboot, wh...

Now that's quite a mouthful of a title. And considering that there is much to discuss, I will break this whole thing into a multipart po...

A simple example will suffice. Let's say I own a digital camera, or a device that contains a digital camera, that uses encrypted firmwar...

Always a pain to do, and nobody seems to provide the files I want, so I'll just provide my own files (using ipl_ms.bin => no frills,...

If you ended up here, it's probably because you too tried to install Windows 7 or Vista on an iSCSI bootable disk using gPXE and, even t...

Since the SheevaPlug makes a nice server for one to share files online securedly, while allowing you to see exactly who is accessing them, t...

Can come handy when attempting to correct unreadable sectors on a RAID disk. Eg. if your RAID1 array is built around /dev/sda3 and /dev/...

Default is 604800 seconds (7 days), which is way way too long. On my machine, I'm getting clock skews of close to a minute as a result, ...

Blah, blah, blah, Windows 7 is great, blah, blah... Oh, you were actually expecting something in that range? Not on this blog I'm afraid...

Well, like many, I was convinced that HDMI-CEC was the wave of the future with regards to AV automation, until I actually read the specs of ...

One day or another, you'll want to produce quick 2D data with your code for visualization, and after looking through hordes of libraries...