The last time I wrote about these chromebooks was in 2022 but its certainly not the last time I've used them! These old devices have been in constant rotation since then however recently I've tired of the Arch / EndeavourOS rolling-release upgrade mill and it was time to make a change. It seem...
Chromebooks, introduced in 2011 initially for the Business and Education markets found quick success in schools mainly due to lower cost of purchase and ease of maintenance. Google Classroom released in 2014 raised the proposition even further but it was probably Google's planned obsolescence f...
First, if you don't know what I'm talking about, read this. This post is not an in-depth discussion of what cryptocurrencies are, how they work, or why you might want to care.
If I had stuck with it then I'd be rich now
The first time I tried my hand at mining for cryptocurrency was back in 2...
update 200203 I have since moved this server to an old Dell Optiplex 3020m (Intel i5-4590T 2.0GHz with 8GB Ram) under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which runs 1.13.2 spigot without issue. The Raspberry Pi was sufficient for 1.12.2 (with occassional lag) but after upgrading to 1.13.2 it was essentially unplay...
I've used dd-wrt on many Linksys WRT54G routers over the years at work and at home. These blue routers, first released in 2002, became classics and in large part because Linksys allowed the open source community to develop replacement firmware for them. The additional capabilities and enhance...
TIL Pixar makes movies in Linux (RedHat and CentOS) and has open sourced their animation software.
https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD
Real-Time Graphics in Pixar Film Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ikzGQW0ys
update 2024 - some years later I was able to switch back to Linux at work. I'll have to look up when I did and see if I have anything documented about it.
I won't get into why, after 10+ years I've switched my work desktop from Linux to Windows 7, but suffice to say its been painful. I stil...
Bought on a whim, this tiny chromebook quickly became my go-to device mainly because it was light, turns on immediately, and I could get 90% of my work done on it. I've been using an ASUS C201 Chromebook for a full year (see original post) now as my daily driver personal machine. I got mine u...
I use my Arch powered bootable USB drive on lots of different hardware, but most often on hand-me-down laptops from work. I recently moved into a newish laptop (a Dell Inspiron 13-7352, P57G) which came with an Intel 7265D wireless card. Its a really nice 2 in 1 laptop where the screen folds b...
I frequently boot Arch Linux from a USB3 drive in various Intel based machines which I've discussed here before. Recently I was using the drive in a Dell e7240 which is a fairly nice, if older, Core i5 based ultrabook and although the drive was inserted in the USB port marked SS (USB3) performan...