Alpine boot menu
This article is an update to my Alpine Boot Switcher article. Contents: Preparing boot device ...
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Alpine Boot switcher
I boot from a USB boot drive using UEFI. Because of the UEFI boot, it just a matter of copying the files from the alpine ISO to a USB thumbdrive VFAT32 partition. Partition may be set to EFI (but this doesn't seem to be required). Since I would like to switch between different alpine versions, I wrote a script to let me have multiple alpine versions and ...
Secure erase of disc drives
This article is about erasing disc drives securely. Specially for SSD drives, writing zeros or random data to discs is not good enough and counterproductive. One way to do secure erase (for disposal) is to begin with an encrypted disc. However, after the fact the following options are possible: ATA Secure Erase ...
How to encrypt linux partitions with LUKS
There are plenty of reasons why people would need to encrypt a partition. Whether they're rooted it in privacy, security, or confidentiality, setting up a basic encrypted partition on a Linux system is fairly easy. This is especially true when using LUKS, since its functionality is built directly into the kernel. Installing Cryptsetup ...
Open Source Alternatives to Visio
Need to create diagrams, flowcharts, circuits, or other kinds of entity-relationship models? Microsoft Visio is without a doubt the best software for that, but that doesn't mean it's the best choice for you. Visio may be the industry standard in the corporate world, but it comes with a huge drawback: it's expensive ($299 for the standard ...
Fixed drive letters for removable USB sticks
If you use multiple USB drives, you've probably noticed that the drive letter can be different each time you plug one in. If you'd like to assign a static letter to a drive that's the same every time you plug it in, read on. Windows assigns drive letters to whatever type of drive is available. This can be annoying especially if you use backup tools or portable apps that prefer to have the same drive letter every time. ...
CyberWorld 2017.1
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Side Load apps on Android TV
So we bough a Philips 50PFK6540. This is a 50" TV with Ambi Ligh and Android TV. One of the things I wanted to do from the very start was to load my own APKs. This was not possible until a recent (2016) update that enabled the "Install from Unknown Sources" setting option. ...
Hosting WordPress on OpenShift
So I finally moved my WordPress web sites to OpenShift. OpenShift is a cloud based Platform-as-a-Service offering from RedHat. And while there is a learning curve I would say that so far it works great. My implementation is a fully cloud based solution. Makes use of the following services: GitHub for code hosting ...
Resizing a Linux RAID
It is possible to migrate the whole array to larger drives (e.g. 250 GB to 1 TB) by replacing one by one. In the end the number of devices will be the same, the data will remain intact, and you will have more space available to you. Extending an existing RAID array In order to increase the usable size of the array, you must increase ...
Off site backup options
This is my working notes on doing off-site backups to the cloud. Still trying to figure out where to keep Offsite backups. These are the candidates: ...
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