Part One of my Raspberry Pi adventures (so far)
Category: Hardware
Some folks might be a bit affronted at the "compare and contrast" of z Systems and a fast food drive-through, but it's just an analogy...
This post may come across as self-serving, semi-advertorial, promotional, or just plain crappy (or all of the above). I don't apologise, it's my blog and I'll write what I want to. However, because it's the Internet and it's almost guaranteed that someone reading this will think I should have warned them... consider yourself warned, fair … Continue reading Analogy can be found anywhere
Ever since work issued me a Lenovo T61 and I installed Fedora on it, I have lamented the loss of something that X afficionados referred to as "Zaphod mode". By gluing together a few different software and hardware components I managed to get close to the old Zaphod mode days -- but first some background... … Continue reading DisplayLink and x2x brings back Zaphod mode
I made a somewhat cryptic tweet a little while ago about how I spent a crazy-long period of time researching what was, I believed, the next-big-thing in DNS resolution for IPv6 (or so my 2002 edition of "IPv6 Essentials" told me). I could not work out why I saw nothing about A6 records in any … Continue reading Another IPv6 instalment (subtitled: Watch Your Tech Library Currency!)
I posted on my developerWorks blog about an experience I had sharing an OSA port in Layer 2 mode. Thrilling stuff. What's more thrilling is the context of where I had my OSA-port-sharing experience: my large-scale Linux on System z cloning experiment. One of these days I'll get around to writing that up.
It's been ages since I did an update on the main network machine here, and I bit the bullet over the weekend. 250+ packages emerged with surprisingly little trouble, and all I was left to do was build the updated kernel and reboot. I usually end up with something that doesn't restart after the reboot, … Continue reading Asterisk and a Patton SmartNode
With Apple's abandonment of PPC as of Snow Leopard, I began wondering what to do with the old PowerMac. It's annoying that so (comparatively) recent a piece of equipment should be given up by its manufacturer, but that's a rant for another day. Yes, we can still run Leopard until it goes out of support, … Continue reading ppc Linux on the PowerMac G5
In case you weren't aware, I am a VoIP nutcase. I have an Asterisk phone system at home, and all the phones in the house are VoIP of some description (either real VoIP devices or analogue handsets through an ATA). While I haven't converted to VoIP as a replacement for PSTN, I have some connectivity … Continue reading Upgrading from Cisco
We watched WALL-E the other day. A bit of trivia for Apple Mac fans (if you didn't already know) is that WALL-E's startup sound — heard when he's finished his solar recharge — is that of a post-1997 Mac computer (with Steve Jobs on the board of Pixar and Disney, WALL-E was never going to … Continue reading Classic Mac sounds on my mobile phone
Crossed Wires 