>NIL:'s Techno Feats

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...

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...