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Raspberry pi router

Yesterday I made my Raspberry Pi function as a router! It took me a long time, mostly because I was using my own custom compiled kernel (don’t worry, you don’t have to do that). There’s probably already enough blogs on the subject, but I thought I’d make one, too! Prerequisites continue reading…

Recovering data from an old encrypted home

Need to copy files from an old home encrypted with ecryptfs? Whether you’re doing it off a livecd or a new installation, at least in Ubuntu 14.04 it’s simple. First, install ecryptfs-recover-private $ sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-recover-private Now, ensure the device you want to recover from is mounted: /dev/sdXY is continue reading…

Learning to be careful!

When programming you sometimes need to watch out a bit. Suppose that (in javascript) you have the following: var a = [ 4, 5, 6 ]; Now, say you want, for whatever reason, to create a copy of that array and perform operations on the copy. For example, you have continue reading…

Play dvds on ubuntu

Note: You may want to make sure this is legal in your country, first… I absolutely love free and open source software and use it as much as possible, sometimes even contribute to it! So, when my dad brought me a DVD today I wanted to be able to play continue reading…