Swift object storage clusters with Ansible
OpenStack Swift is a most brilliant object store and I have built a few clusters over the last couple of years using SwiftStack’s product, which is really excellent. However, I […]
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Running Home Assistant on Fedora with Docker
Home Assistant is a really great, open source home automation platform written in Python which supports hundreds of components. They have a containerised version called Hass.io which can run on […]
Read moreFixing webcam flicker in Linux with udev
I recently got a new Dell XPS 13 (9360) laptop for work and it’s running Fedora pretty much perfectly. However, when I load up Cheese (or some other webcam program) […]
Read moreBuilding and Booting Upstream Linux and U-Boot for Raspberry Pi 2/3 ARM Boards
My home automation setup will make use of Arduinos and also embedded Linux devices. I’m currently looking into a few boards to see if any meet my criteria. Previously I […]
Read moreBuilding and Booting Upstream Linux and U-Boot for Orange Pi One ARM Board (with Ethernet)
My home automation setup will make use of Arduinos and also embedded Linux devices. I’m currently looking into a few boards to see if any meet my criteria. The most […]
Read moreMy Custom Open Source Home Automation Project – Part 3, Roll Out
In Part 1 I discussed motivation and research where I decided to build a custom, open source wired solution. Part 2 discussed the prototype and other experiments. Because we were […]
Read moreMy Custom Open Source Home Automation Project – Part 2, Design and Prototype
Update: See Part 3. In Part 1 I discussed motivation and research where I decided to build a custom, open source wired solution. In this Part 2 I discuss the […]
Read moreMy Custom Open Source Home Automation Project – Part 1, Motivation and Research
Update: See Part 2 and Part 3. In January 2016 I gave a presentation at the Canberra Linux Users Group about my journey developing my own Open Source home automation […]
Read moreCommand line password management with pass
Why use a password manager in the first place? Well, they make it easy to have strong, unique passwords for each of your accounts on every system you use (and […]
Read moreCross-compiling a PowerPC64 LE kernel and hitting a GCC bug
Being new at OzLabs I’m dipping my toes into various projects and having a play with PowerPC and so I thought I’d cross-compile the Linux kernel on Fedora. Traditionally PowerPC […]
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