“Trumpster fire” – John Gruber knocks it out of the park again with my favorite phrase of the week when he compares the Republican National Convention to a “Trumpster fire” – awesomely apt description. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/07/21/nba-north-carolina http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trumpster%20fire
This is nauseating… https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/67367/upgradegate-microsofts-upgrade-deceptions-undermining-windows-10 I was annoyed by Apple’s pushy iOS 9.3.2 upgrade pressure; but this is way beyond anything Apple has done so far…
Tagged Bait and Switch, Computers, Forced Upgrade, MicrosoftWe live in amazing times indeed where planetary shipping can be visualized like this… Created by London-based data visualisation studio Kiln and the UCL Energy Institute
In previous post I covered how to stand up CentOS 7 on BananaPi: https://blog.scottnolan.org/2016/03/16/bananapi-server-running-centos-7-linux/ This is how to add Apache, PHP, MariaDB and MediaWiki to a BananaPi. Install a bunch of software: yum -y install httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-xml mariadb-server mariadb First, set up the database: systemctl start mariadb mysql_secure_installation disable anonymous users enforce […]
I previously covered how to install CentOS 7 Linux and NTPD on BananaPi here: https://blog.scottnolan.org/2016/03/16/bananapi-server-running-centos-7-linux/ This post is how to install BIND name server for caching DNS on BananaPi. Install and enable the BIND software: yum -y install bind bind-chroot systemctl enable named.service Go get a root hints file: yum -y install wget wget –user=ftp […]
I enjoy tinkering with small, energy-efficient servers. My latest toy is a LeMaker BananaPi (RaspberryPi clone, but with eSATA and gigabit ethernet). Grab a CentOS 7 for ARM image from http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/, mine happens to be CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-BananaPi.img Stuff that onto an SD card (mine is 16GB, but this should work even smaller) using dd commands. Insert […]
I have been tinkering with a nifty little RaspberryPi clone made by Lemaker and called BananaPi (basically a RaspberryPi model B with 1 gigabyte memory, eSATA connector, and gigabit ethernet). It’s the size of a deck of playing cards in it’s clear acrylic case, and runs CentOS 7 Linux server operating system. I have it […]
Steven Levy has an excellent article about the current attempt to squash privacy and encryption by the FBI and why this all sounds so familiar, it’s because we already had this battle before, twice, in the 1990s… and both times wisdom prevailed. Will it prevail again? https://backchannel.com/why-are-we-fighting-the-crypto-wars-again-b5310a423295 Remember the dreaded “Clipper” chip and everyone worrying […]
Having a gently warm spring weekend has encouraged me to start on the garden this year; so far I am just tilling the soil with an old garden fork and thinking about how best to prevent deer and rabbit from eating everything. Remaining from prior years is a little Rosemary, a lot of Oregano, the […]
Tagged gardenIt looks like some extortionists hijacked the transmissionbt.com website, and published for about 36-48 hours a fake version of Transmission (bitTorrent client) that claims to be v2.90 but is actually RansomWare that will encrypt your files and demand payment for decryption keys. Don’t use Transmission v2.90 and be careful out there. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/first-mac-targeting-ransomware-hits-transmission-users-researchers-say/ I guess Mac […]
