Technical blog by Marcin Gałkowski – a seasoned sysadmin. Linux, Android, audio, OSS integration, Raspberry Pi, and more geeky "bits and pieces^H^H^H^H^H^Hbytes"
Raspberry Pi is advertised as an ultra-inexpensive (~35 USD for model B) mini computer running Linux. That’s why I just had to give it a try 🙂 It is especially interesting because it opens up a lot of possibilities combining Linux + small footprint + low memory consumption + connectivity + reasonable price. This article refers to model B of the board.
Continue reading ‘Raspberry Pi overview – 3.5 Watt Linux board’
A couple of not-so-obvious-at-first hints if one day you need to get Windows 7 Professional running as domU on XEN 4 HVM virtualization where your dom0 is Linux Debian Squeeze. And with the assumption that it is to be bridged with eth0/peth0. Continue reading ‘Windows 7 domU on XEN 4 HVM with Debian Squeeze dom0’
Let’s assume that you need to install a multi-purpose firewall/server for your customer, but their ISP of choice is just too lazy to install their cabling to customer’s premises. Let’s also add that all you are left with is a Huawei E1552 Modem for HSPA/3G mobile packet data with a data plan SIM card. If so – here’s how I put it to use for persistent Internet uplink (this time with Debian squeeze) until the semi-decent ISP is ready. Continue reading ‘Huawei E1552 Modem with Debian Linux’
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