I took my server offline almost a year ago when it was hosted on Odroid XU4. I’ve imported now the last backup I had on an LXC Ubuntu based host running inside Proxmox on an Orange Pi 5 Plus. Let’s see how it holds up this time! RAM might be an issue! Let’s see.
Author: Cristian Sandu
Greatest post written in 2 minutes
I have 2 minutes before the meeting. The mind begins to wonder. I can’t wait till this meeting is over so that I can get on with my life. But… I haven’t written anything in a long time so I thought I’d dump something on the “page”. 1 minute now. I am so slow. I …
Back from the dead(land of 404)
TO: whomever is reading this SUBJECT: critical HDD failure DATA: A few weeks back one of my WD 4Tb Reds crapped out – production date said 2017 but I bought in 2018. It was no longer being recognized by the HDD controller – the usual story. Sadly it was part of an LVM volume which …
Reverse Engineering an ESP8266 Firmware
Hi folks, A while ago I did reverse engineering challenge that pushed me to learn more about the Arduino toolchain. I am a big fan of Platformio and switched to that a long time ago but most people will still use Arduino and the Arduino IDE. Also, even in Platformio you will most times use …
VFIO Passthrough of an AMD RX550(1002:699f) to a macOS Guest
Don’t be like me, be better I will admit to not properly researching what GPU I needed to properly run macOS with Qemu. Combine that with me wanting go buy the cheapest yet still available AMD GPU and you get the Sapphire AMD RX550 OC(2GB). What I did not know is that this card has …
Reverse Engineering a PyInstaller Executable on Linux
I was working on a reversing challenge recently and I was given an odd binary file. I say odd because it had a prompt that said “enter username” and such but the string username was not to be found in the binary. Something was up. So I looked at it from a few angles: First, …
Things I learned by failing to boot Linux on my ODROID(s)
I am a hoarder of SBCs, I had the first Raspberry Pi on pre-order from 2 different suppliers in fear I might not get to have one at launch. Seems intensely silly now but at the time I was fascinated by what a Raspbery Pi was and could do. A while later I discovered however …
This Blog is Now Powered by Pure Docker Magic
Hey, it’s almost 2020! Who runs their web apps on bare-metal these days anymore? This past year I have been working on moving all my Odroid hosted apps to a docker setup. The last thing I had on my list was this WordPress site. I was a bit afraid of messing it all up and …
LVM fun: Swap out disk in LVM2 stripe
Update: You can find a much better version of this as an article I wrote for the Odroid Magazine:https://magazine.odroid.com/article/linux-logical-volume-manager-lvm2/ I’ve been planning to upgrade my LVM2 2 disk striped setup with a new disk for a while. I am currently on the testing phase but I think I have a good way to do it …
How To Setup Ambilight on the Odroid-c1/c2 and Not Blow a Fuse
I’ve struggled with setting up Ambilight on the Odroid-C1 for a while. I stopped in frustration after week when I realized it was not going to work. And now I think I have finally found the solution. But let me back up a bit. It all started with me reading a glossy article in the …
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