Adventurous Computing

GUI Vagrant box

Posted on November 9, 2014

Recently I’ve started working on changing my default development workflow. I’m evaluating vagrant as a main env manager, and then docker for extra speed. In short, my vagrant up boots up new dev box and then couple of docker containers. What I’ve found is that there is not really a plethora of GUI-enabled vagrant boxes, so I’ve created one ! If you want to use it, go: vagrant init cyplo/ubuntu-gnome-utopic-gui vagrant up I will write about the whole setup later, as I’m not yet sure what approach is best for me. [Read More]

linux vagrant

Tor talk

Posted on November 1, 2014

I gave a talk this Monday, an important one I think. The one from the kind of spreading knowledge on the safe internet usage to people not necessarily of the tech background. This was my first one given to a such audience and to add to it all, it was given in Polish. The biggest challenge ? Finding good equivalent for the English tech terms. I think the talk went quite okay and the discussion afterwards was lively. [Read More]

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Running Eagle on Ubuntu 14.10 64bit

Posted on November 1, 2014

Eagle is still the first choice when it comes to Open Hardware electronics design. That’s a bit unfortunate because the software itself is proprietary. Sometimes you need to run it though. For example to migrate projects over to non-proprietary software ! Say, you’d like to run new Eagle 7.1 under Ubuntu ? Try repos. Repos have the old major version 6 only. The harder to get proprietary software the better, I suppose. [Read More]

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Poor man's secrets storage

Posted on September 26, 2014

I’m a bit cautious when it comes to storing my passwords and other secrets. I do not use any web or desktop applications to do this for me. How do I remember those passphrases then ? I have a central file server, accessible via a tunnel. I store there a gpg-encrypted file containing a tar archive of a directory with various files containing secrets. Syncing these files across computers became a bit cumbersome lately. [Read More]

security

Compiling git 2.0 on cygwin

Posted on July 5, 2014

I had some troubles compiling git 2.0 under cygwin. I present you with a very dirty hack to do so. Proper patch will probably follow. Did I mention that the hack is dirty and will make your hands burn if you’re gonna type it in ? git clone https://github.com/git/git.git cd git git checkout v2.0.1 autoconf ./configure # so far so good... make # oops # .... SUBDIR perl make[2]: /home/cplotnicki/dev/git/perl/0: Command not found perl. [Read More]

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Mount your filament spool on the wall

Posted on June 19, 2014

I find it useful to hang as much stuff as possible on the walls, instead of using shelf/floor/desk space for that. Here is just a quick hack I did to allow filament spools to be mounted securely to a wall. It turns out that if you cut off the bent part the rod it fits perfectly into the spool’s handle hole.

3d printing hardware

Better crypto initiative