Set up reasonably secure encryption without sacrificing too much computing power. I had previously configured only a single encrypted partition but the PAM unlocking caused many troubles. Advantage of the full disk encryption is that you have secured everything including swap partition. (more…)
Hibernation and turning swap off
Having 16 GB RAM today is nothing extraordinary. Swap seems to be a useless thing. And it perhaps is. Even if you are able somehow fill up those gigs of memory then it is caused probably by some extremely hungry program which will initiate a horrendous swapping and your system will become virtually frozen. (more…)
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Formating Sweex MP3 player in Linux
I bought a year ago a tiny MP3 player Sweex Clipz MP300. I found it to be very tricky to format it in Linux. After few trials and errors I found a way. (more…)
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Emulating Raspberry Pi
My friend asked me if there is any possibility to try Raspberry Pi disk image in MS Windows. What a challenge! It wasn’t any challenge at all since I found almost everything prepared.
Mass erase of MSP-EXP430FR5739
I bought myself a new toy – MSP-EXP430FR5739 experimenter board. It didn’t stay working long because I ran into the same trouble like the guy here. Mspdebug was complaining about blow fuses. Fix was quite easy thanks to my another toy MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad which I luckily bought together with the experimenter board. (more…)