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End-to-End Secure & Scalable IoT OTA Update System with HawkBit
Smart Home Integration: Home Automation System
KeePassXC als LastPass alternatief
Vanaf 16 maart is het niet meer mogelijk om LastPass Free op verschillende devices te gebruiken. En zeer goede vervanger voor LastPass is KeePassXC. KeePass en KeePassXC draaien op Windows, Linux en macOS, hebben geen interne synchronisatie, maar dit kan gedaan worden via Dropbox, Google Drive, …
Search Tracker the full text search tool on Gnome desktop
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I’m happy to announce the release of my full text search tool for the Gnome desktop, named Search Tracker. Written in Python and PySide2 (Qt). Search Tracker is using the Gnome Tracker, which is the default local file system indexer in Gnome. The reason I wrote this tool is that I …
Ubuntu: Installing Zend Framework with NetBeans

To install Zend Framework is not as straight forward like other PHP Frameworks. Also to install it with NetBeans it was not described very well on blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp site. Let’s start!
My assumption is that NetBeans is installed already on Ubuntu. I used NetBeans 6.9.1 and Ubuntu …
Tips to spindown your hard disk in Debian or Ubuntu

Before we are going into depth, first check if the (external) hard disk is able to go in spindown. Disable all services which has disk access periodically, for example:
$ /etc/init.d/asterisk stop
$ /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
$ /etc/init.d/mysql stop
$ /etc/init.d/samba …
Debian root on a flash disk and the data on a hard disk
This article is about installing Debian on a flash disk, like SD card, flash disk, Solid State Disk etc. The goal is to have the data on a hard disk. This will increase the lifetime of the flash disk.
Assumption of this article is that Debian is already installed on a flash disk in the root …
Sheevaplug boot from SD card fails on power up
After installing Debian on SD card, it was booting successfully with the ‘run bootcmd’. But when I switched off the power and plugged in again, I was getting the following error messages:
Error! cmd : 8, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err …
Basic Debian installation and configuration
Add handy aliases
Add the following at the end of bash.bashrc:
$ vi /etc/bash.bashrc
...
alias ll='ls -l'
alias pg='ps -ef|grep'
alias vi='vim'
The last alias “vi” is to use vim instead of vi. vim is the more luxury editor ;-).
To install vim, enter the following command:
$ apt-get …