Batocera & iPhone hotspot
In my previous post, I mentioned that I’m using the Anbernic 35xxh handheld for retrogaming. This device offers a nice, horizontal, compact, and practical f...
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Anbernic 35xxH and Batocera
Today, the market is flooded with a variety of handheld devices for retro emulation, originating from several Chinese companies such as Retroid, Powkiddy, a...
OctoPrint with multiple 3D printers
One of the most useful tools when managing a 3D printer is OctoPrint, since among several things it allows you to manage your printer from a web interface, ...
Mouse Logitech MX Anywhere 2s Flounder on Linux
I bought a Logitech Mx Anywhere 2s Flounder mouse too free up a USB port, and be able to configure more buttons compared to the mouse I had.
How to load the VirtualBox driver
If for any reason (for instance Genymotion complaining about not finding VirtualBox) and you need to reload the VirtualBox driver keep in mind that the scr...
How to update Linux time zones
On May 1st, Venezuela will change its time zone to UTC-4, therefore in Linux you must update your tzdata package to be ready to this change. To do so just j...
Installing Java on Debian
If you need to install Oracle Java on Debian, you can follow the next steps once the binary file had been downloaded from Oracles’s download page:
How to enable the Web UI on qBittorrent
If you want to manage your qBittorrent server using a web interface, follow these steps:
How to extend a volume on LVM
Sometimes it is necessary to extend a logical volume, expanding the physical volume where it is hosted. If this is the case, you can follow this example e...
How to install VMWare Tools on Red Hat and CentOS
If you need to install VMWare Tools on virtual machines running Red Hat or CentOS as operating system, you can follow the procedure described next: Proced...
How to move a physical volume on LVM
If you need to move data from one disk to another one you could think in copying the data with cp, rsync, or any other tool, and then umount the partition,...
LPIC-2 certification
At last my certificate and card ID for LPIC-2 have arrived, which involve exams 201 and 202. Unlike the LPIC-1 certification, it took more time to arrive ...
Gitlab full Postgresql backup and restore
GitLab can be used with Postgresql as its database engine (beside MySQL), and all come ready to make backups and restores of its databases and git reposi...
Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 with Android 4.3 – CyanogenMod 10.2
One more time I wanted to give another breath to my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7, because prices here in Venezuela are not encouraging, so I decided to instal...
Debmirror problem: gpgv: Can’t check signature: public key not found
I have a mirror where Debian and Ubuntu packages are hosted, so people in the internal network can upgrade their software using this mirror. But the other...
How to install VMWare Tools on Debian 7
Installing VMWare Tool on Debian 7 is not that different than, for example, installing VirtualBox’s Guest Additions. In essence you have to have the system...
Installing Raspbmc successfully
A friend recommended me this distro for running XBMC which was released by one of the developers of the XBMC project with specific optimizations to run on ...
How to create a ramdisk in Linux
A ramdisk is like a disk partition but running directly from the system’s RAM. All data read and written will be faster, and as drawback all data will be e...
Novell certification
Talking with a friend of mine I told him that LPI certifications validates a couple of Novell0’s certifications which in deed are just an incentive to con...
How to build a Debian packge in 3 steps
There are several ways of making a Debian package. In this article you will learn how to create it using equivs tools, to create a simple package (for exam...
How to make big file system partitions
Sometimes you’ll see on hard drives some inconsistencies with size, used value and the available space. The problem occurs when the operating system report...
Daemontools or how to relaunch a process if it dies
Maybe you have been in the situation where a process (program or service) in the system dies or ends abruptly and needs to be relaunched no matter what. Y...
Where to put my Raspberry Pi?
Due to I wanted to use my Raspberry Pi as a media center but I didn’t want to put a lot of devices on my nightstand I came up with this idea. My Raspberry,...
How to run Raspberry Pi from a USB hard drive
I’ve been using my Raspberry Pi with a 4 GB - class 4 SD card Kingston until it decided to die (since I burn the image the first time that SD card was a l...
XBMC on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian
If you want to install XBMC on your Raspberry Pi using Raspbian and got dependency problems, you can download it from this repo by adding the following lin...
Mobile repository on Debian
If by chances you have a slow connection but in another place have a better connection (school, university, work, etc.) and have a computer with Debian whic...
Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
In the traditional disk partitioning scheme, administrators plan ahead the use of each partition. For instance, a laptop with 120 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM ...
Setting OpenVPN on OpenWrt
Due to my home router is connected 24×7 it makes it the ideal place to install a VPN server. In my case I had installed OpenWrt on my router TP-LINK TL-WR1...
Kernel compiling the old-fashion way
There are several reasons for compiling a kernel. For instance you might be interested in adding support for a new hardware or functionality, or for tuning...
Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
After installing your virtual machine in VirtualBox you should install the Guest Additions…what is that for? It lets you use your virtual machine at fullsc...
Epson Stylus CX5600 all-in-one scanner on Linux
I convinced my sister to use Linux after the fourth Windows XP installation (due to viruses). But she complained about not having installed her Epson Stylu...
Redemption: Bye bye Windows XP…Howdy Ubuntu 9.10
As I said in other post , I have installed Windows on my sister’s computer at least four times due to viruses. I installed it one more time and I also inst...
Why not to use Windows?
I’ve installed my sister’s computer at least four times with Windows XP because it got viruses…I hope this time she considers to use Linux (they have it in...
apt vs aptitude
Both, apt (apt-get, apt-cache) and aptitude are commands for package administration from the text on Debian and spin-off distros like Ubuntu. In fact, both...