Replacing Wordpress with Pelican

It was about time to replace Wordpress with a static-site-generator. So I've found that Pelican does it's job pretty well! Currently I'm migrating all the stuff over from the old blog - so I hope that I will get all the Syntax/Codeblocks right in the next few ...

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Odroid-U3 - ArchlinuxARM + HDMI Output

Thanks Fedex, just got my shiny Odroid-U3 delivered from Korea :-D For those who don't know, it's a small developer board like the RaspberryPI (leave now if you don't even know the RaspberryPI! ;-)) with an ARM CPU. Actually 4x 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos 4412 ARM Cortex-A9 processor ...

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Tomtom POI's from openstreetmap

Long time no post, I know ;-) But now I'm back again :-p

As an owner of a Tomtom via 120, I wanted to update the POI's, but I didn't want to pay for just updating the Points-of-Interest. As I'm participating in openstreetmap.org, I've decided ...

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Firefox 20 - skip the SSL/TLS certificate error

As of Firefox version 20, the addon Skip-Cert-Error (which is a rewrite of 'MitM Me') doesn't work anymore. In fact there were some changes made in ffox in regards to the private-browsing-mode, which made the current 0.3.3 version incompatible.
Luckily the developer also has its own GIT-repository ...

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Split mbox into single files

Just had an issue with a mailbox on a server, and it seemed pretty OK checking it with vim. I tried to remove the newest 1-2 messages, but that didn't help either.
As there were quite a few messages in it, i wanted to isolate the culprit; split the ...

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RocketRaid 2720 + Debian 7

Hi There,

Just a quick step by step manual on how to compile the kernelmodule for the Highpoint Rocketraid Controller 2720 under Debian 7.

  • wget "http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/rr272x_1x/Linux/RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz"
  • tar xfz "RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz"
  • cd product/rr272x/linux
  • make
  • copy rr272x_1x.ko ...
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