Posts Archive

The stupidest smallest things are sometimes the hardest to work out how to fix

Dec 24, 2022

Getting to orange mode in non-phone embedded android targets

Dec 23, 2022

Notes on coaxing valgrind to work on arbitrary embedded targets

Dec 17, 2022

Cheap Smart Speaker Teardown part 3 - How to find the speed of a serial port

Nov 19, 2022

Cheap Smart Speaker Teardown part 2

Nov 12, 2022

Cheap Smart Speaker Teardown part 1

Nov 12, 2022

Fixing a last century GPS timeserver part 1

Nov 20, 2021

Installing LineageOS on a cheap midrange phone (part 1 - bootloader unlock)

Aug 7, 2020

Hacking BluRay players just for fun - part 1

Jul 13, 2020

Well that has been a while

Jul 11, 2020

Package updates don't always help (bug: unsupported BodyInit type)

Mar 31, 2019

Some notes on moving to Ionic4 from Ionic3 and building a web app

Feb 1, 2019

Running unit tests selectively with Angular7 (+ Ionic4) and Karma

Jan 13, 2019

Reboot Hello World, 2019 edition

Jan 13, 2019

My Commodore SX64 has only 6143 bytes free

Jan 30, 2017

From the outside looking in

Jan 19, 2017

Mapbox on Chrome on Android

May 22, 2016

Welcome to Jekyll! (Switching over from Wordpress)

Apr 4, 2016

Distracting adventures in ZFS upgrades

Sep 4, 2015

Using an i2c RTC with the Carambola2 (or any OpenWRT modified router)

Apr 27, 2015

Why is the Arduino IDE so stupid?

Apr 23, 2015

Challenge for 2015: hackaday prize competition

Mar 29, 2015

hacksa2015 - we won!

Mar 14, 2015

Expanding Horizons

Feb 16, 2015

hacksa2015

Feb 6, 2015

Linux.conf.au 2015 : working backwards from the end... and things that go bang!

Feb 6, 2015

Linux.conf.au 2015 catchup #1

Jan 26, 2015

Linux.conf.au - so much all the things!

Jan 21, 2015

Experiments with hardening OpenWRT: applying the grsecurity patches

Dec 14, 2014

Running FreeBSD on the carambola2

Nov 30, 2014

(UPDATE) Evaluating the security of OpenWRT (part 3) adventures in NOEXECSTACK’land

Oct 4, 2014

Evaluating the security of OpenWRT (part 3) adventures in NOEXECSTACK'land

Oct 4, 2014

Evaluating the security of OpenWRT (part 2) - bugfix

Sep 23, 2014

Evaluating the security of OpenWRT (part 2)

Sep 20, 2014

Evaluating the security of OpenWRT (part 1)

Sep 18, 2014

Raspberry Pi Virtual Machine Automation

Aug 23, 2014

Unleashed GovHack - an Adelaide Adventure in Open Data

Aug 19, 2014

Avoiding your own Goto Fail in a pinch

Jun 8, 2014

Booting a Windows7/Vista Recovery partition when Windows is broken

Apr 22, 2014

OpenWRT WDS between legacy WRT54G and recent TP-Link devices

Mar 30, 2014

Using a Brother network scanner with Linux

Feb 23, 2014

Launchpad to Github round trip, save 5 giabytes on the way

Jan 31, 2014

OQGraph - bazaar adventures in migrating to git

Jan 27, 2014

On Linux.conf.au and Presentation logistics

Jan 6, 2014

Quick Tip - AspireOne xrandr

Nov 26, 2013

Quick Tip - copying colons over ssh and rsync

Nov 19, 2013

Some funky stuff with git - working with tags

Sep 24, 2013

Something new: dcfldd - a more advanced dd for data transfer

Aug 30, 2013

So you learn something new every day...

Aug 22, 2013

Github repository

Aug 4, 2013

Debugging an x86 bootloader using QEMU+KVM

Jun 30, 2013

Achievement unlocked - OpenWRT device porting - and a quick and dirty level conversion

Apr 26, 2013

Yellowstone YSE300 7" 4GB EReader (aka AudioSonic ASEET001K)

Apr 1, 2013

Quick Tip - Legacy Skype on Debian Squeeze

Feb 28, 2013

LCA2013 Wrap(-ish) - slides for my talk

Feb 4, 2013

Linux.conf.au days 2-4 (well, sort of)

Jan 31, 2013

AspireOne and encrypted SD card /home

Jan 28, 2013

Linux.conf.au 2013 Day 1

Jan 28, 2013

When 'ssh -X somehost' doesnt work...

Nov 24, 2012

Fixing sluggish write performance of USB flash (thumb) drives

Nov 13, 2012

Windows shenanigans - with a little help from our (Linux) friends - part 1

Nov 11, 2012

Take a breather

Nov 11, 2012

FreeDNS dynamic DNS service

Sep 14, 2012

Using EnigMail with Thunderbird Icedove 10 from Debian Squeeze Backports

Aug 8, 2012

Scratch and itches

Aug 4, 2012

Fixing my annoying kernel bug(s) - Part 2

May 1, 2012

Fixing my annoying kernel bug(s) - Part 1

May 1, 2012

Patching and Building a custom Linux Kernel in Debian

Apr 10, 2012

SD to IDE converter problems

Mar 10, 2012

Historical insights into the current Canberra mayhem

Feb 26, 2012

OpenWRT tips

Feb 17, 2012

OpenWRT web admin (LUCI) wierdness

Feb 9, 2012

Having a go at contributing back

Jan 26, 2012

Blog Architecture

Jan 25, 2012

Remastering Youtube videos into AVI for your Set Top Box

Jan 22, 2012

How to Enable / Disable remote X connections in Debian Squeeze

Jan 19, 2012

Buy a raffle ticket and support the Country Fire Assocation

Jan 17, 2012

Linux.conf.au A First Timer Day 2

Jan 17, 2012

Linux.conf.au (LCA2012) a First Timers perspective

Jan 16, 2012

Its nearly time...

Jan 11, 2012

Using SSHFS with a specific identity

Jan 6, 2012

GnuCash 2.4.8 on Debian Squeeze

Jan 2, 2012

How to turn off smiley graphics in WordPress

Jan 1, 2012

Google search uselessness

Jan 1, 2012

Debian Squeeze and Linux Kernel 3

Dec 27, 2011

Optus Huawei E173 in Debian Squeeze

Dec 17, 2011

USBmount tool in Debian Squeeze

Dec 12, 2011

Note to self - Wordpress tweaks

Dec 11, 2011

Gnucash ledger font

Dec 11, 2011

I'm going to LCA2012

Dec 9, 2011

printf("Hello World\n");

Dec 8, 2011