Linux Fu: Eavesdropping on Serial
In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Eavesdropping on Serial
Collaborate Disseminate
In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Eavesdropping on Serial
[Michael Lynch] recently replaced his Synology NAS with a self-built solution built on ZFS, a filesystem with a neat feature: the ability to back up encrypted data without having to …read more Continue reading Back Up Encrypted ZFS Data Without Decrypting It, Even If TrueNAS Doesn’t Approve
You’ve probably heard about Google Chromebooks. Like Android, Chrome OS is based on some variant of Linux, but it is targeted at the “cloud first” strategy so Chromebooks typically don’t …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Chrome OS Flex Virtualization
Sometimes a problem seems hard, but the right insight can make it easy. If you were asked to write a program to compare two PDF files and show the differences, …read more Continue reading Compare PDFs Visually
Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without …read more Continue reading Converting an 80s Typewriter Into a Linux Terminal
Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without …read more Continue reading Converting an 80s Typewriter Into a Linux Terminal
[greenluigi1] bought a Hyundai Ioniq car, and then, to our astonishment, absolutely demolished the Linux-based head unit firmware. By that, we mean that he bypassed all of the firmware update …read more Continue reading Hacker Liberates Hyundai Head Unit, Writes Custom Apps
What do you do with those old Android or iPhone phones and tablets? You have plenty of options, but it is pretty easy to build your own stream deck with …read more Continue reading Quick Hack: The Phone to Stream Deck Conversion
It is a sign of the times that one of [Dmitry’s] design criteria for his new Linux on a business card is to use parts you can actually find during …read more Continue reading A Linux Business Card You Can Build
By today’s standards, the necessities for running a Linux-based operating system are surprisingly meagre in terms of RAM and processor power. Back in the day we ran earlier Linux versions …read more Continue reading It’s Linux. On An ESP32