>NIL:'s Techno Feats

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...

Bit disappointed in Drupal . Of course it's a great tool (and it's GPL), but they probably won't be 'there' till versio...

Growing tired of Nero's inability to handle cue sheets (wanna make Nero crash? Just pick up a cue sheet here and there). This program ha...

Found that one totally by accident (and yes, sometimes it doesn't hurt checking the official Microsoft documentation ): <Ctrl> ...

This time with libftdi/libusb - just follow the leader . ;) Or, if you just want my latest (development) installable zip of OpenOCD for Wind...

And so, finally, we come to the final part of our series regarding the setting up of our SheevaPlug with Linux. Thanks to the good guys at a...

(Updated 2010.08.08) Well, since I played with this iScsi stuff just for the sake of it, I might as well post a quick guide. For this setup,...

This comes handy when you are flashing firmwares from USB and don't want to take any risk with data corruptions (most firmwares images h...

This is the last piece of the puzzle with regards to our using a customized Ubuntu on the internal Flash. After that, we'll switch to us...

As mentioned here , it is possible to control the blue LED on the Plug and use it for notification. The LED itself is accessible as /sys/cla...

There are many reasons why you would want to use a custom kernel on the plug. As far as I am concerned, the lack of ext4 and ntfs support in...

If you've had a look at openplug.org, as you should have, you've read that the default installed NAND kind of blows (slow MMC/NAND a...

This is a tutorial for people like me who want to start with JTAG and OpenOCD access on the SheevaPlug. Most of this stuff regarding the ins...

Not something I knew beforehand. USB devices are either auto detected or can be accessed as regular SCSI Disk devices (/dev/sda# - by the wa...

Well, it finally happened. Daily video streaming for the last episode of the "The Daily Show" is no longer available from the Repu...

Alright, now that we have our new shiny SheevaPlug, let's get started. Of course, first thing we want is a serial console to the Linux O...

At last, my SheevaPlug Development Kit has arrived! For those who don't know yet what the SheevaPlug is, you can have a look at this sho...

Just re-installed Slackware 13.0 x64 on the HTPC, this time using a small boot partition on the extra non fakeRAIDed HDD, which I recently a...

Man, that was painful!!! Curse those XML Committee morons that should have designed a transformation language based on Perl, rather than com...