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Saltstack : state for SDCard / flash storage optimization (Arm SBC)

Posted on February 13, 2017 by jit

All my servers are small Arm SBCs that use SDCards or eMMC for storage. For all of them, I use the same optimization state that […]

Linux

Retrogaming: homemade bartop

Posted on January 9, 2017 by jit

The story began some years ago, when I built from scratch a “true” fullsized arcade cabinet (see the gallery). This Mame Cab was pretty cool, […]

Hardware, Projects, retrogaming

Deploying Saltstack : master and minion (archlinux on ARM)

Posted on September 23, 2016 by jit

As part of a project to upgrade my servers (Sheevaplug and Cubieboards), I wanted to automate most of the OS and software deployments. Moreover the […]

Linux

Project : update of OpenHab binding for Zibase

Posted on February 29, 2016 by jit

Following my original project of the Zibase Binding, I updated it for the recent 1.9 branch. The pull request has been sent to OpenHab team. […]

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Linux : sheevaplug as a perfect NAS – Reloaded

Posted on November 2, 2015 by jit

Since more than 2 years now, I’m using a Sheevaplug as a low power NAS (see this article). Until now, I was using a Debian […]

Linux, Network

Hardware / Linux : Retro Boy – portable gaming console with an Odroid-w and a GameBoy case

Posted on May 29, 2015 by jit

I have seen some guys who put a raspberry pi in a Game Boy case (eg. here or here). Being a fan of retro-gaming, I wanted to […]

Hardware, Linux, Projects

Arduino : HTTP driven power switches and UART to telnet gateway

Posted on March 20, 2015 by jit

As explained in a previous post, I made a small custom ARM servers bay with 3 cubieboards. Until now, switching power or using UART connection […]

C/C++, Hardware, HTTP, Network

Linux : Monitoring And supervision with Zabbix

Posted on March 5, 2015 by jit

Here is some notes of my own Zabbix monitoring system installation (debian based). It has been done since a while now, but I never took the […]

Linux, Network, ShellScript

Linux : CIFS module for linksys E4200 (candyhouse) debian kernel

Posted on January 21, 2015 by jit

As an owner of the excellent Linksys (Cisco) E4200 router, I use a Debian Linux distribution on it (more info on http://www.wolfteck.com/projects/candyhouse/). Unfortunately, the given […]

Hardware, Linux

Linux : cubieboard 1 & 2 headless server optimized custom kernel 3.4.103

Posted on December 18, 2014 by jit

After some crashes running OpenHab on one of my cubieboards with a freshly installed Oracle’s JRE 1.8 and several tests, I started to suspect the kernel. […]

Hardware, Linux

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