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The value of an over-exuberant penchant for experimentation and fiddling should never be underestimated, if only because it helps measure the onset of age-associated mental debilitation. In other words, everyone needs a hobby. Or two. Or ten.

What to do in 2017

Thu December 29, 2016 in General / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development tagged adafruit / Android / ARM / debian / IoT / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / technology / toolchain / web server / WebKit / xmpcr (updated 2397 days ago)

When I was just getting started with embedded development I found many tutorials on how to perform cross compiles required setting up some shell functions and variables before working on builds. This is a necessity for embedded work because the embedded build for the target platform won’t use the same […]

cdtools, because who has just one project?

Mon April 06, 2015 in General / Linux / Raspberry Pi / Software Development tagged angstrom / ARM / buildroot / embedded development / Fedora / git / java / kernel / Linux / metabuild / Metabuilds / OpenEmbedded / packaging / PiBox / rpm / toolchain / yocto (updated 3244 days ago)

My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]

Media servers: Flash, Hulu, Amazon, ARM and Fedora 16

Sun July 29, 2012 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Firefox / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / TV / Via Motherboards / X11 / XBMC tagged adobe / amazon / Android / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / Bravia / drm / Fedora / firefox / Flash / flash player / flash player plugin / hulu / media servers

I've managed to build and boot Buildroot 2011.02 using the 2.6.32 Arago kernel and Crosstool-NG 1.8.2 with GCC 4.4.3 and uClibc 0.9.30.2. The build works just as well as the older Buildroot 2010.11 I had been using, but there is a problem with where fonts are being installed. For some […]