For anyone interested, the schedule for the next Embedded Linux Conference, held in San Francisco bay on the 15-16-17 of February, is out: 2012 Embedded Linux Conference | Schedule | Linux Foundation Events.
January 7, 2012
I started a project to try to use Arduino as a JTAG interface to perform debugging, programming and scans. The objective is to have a setup like the following diagram: The complete project should include: Arduino sketch OpenOCD integration Python API Arduino shield with common connectors etc. In particular the shield should have: Level shifters between… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
In this post I suggest a way to have an encrypted Linux installation on a USB key, which to me is useful when I travel and I want to securely access the functionality that desktop Linux offers. I want to have no fear that what I take with me will be stolen, even if what I take with me is a full Linux OS, together with my data and maybe some online passwords saved in the browser.
January 1, 2012
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
I noticed that on my Debian Testing installation the system beep is active, even though my computer has a nice and common integrated sound card. To disable the annoying beeps at start-up and shut-down, the common solution is to blacklist the “pcspkr” module, which is responsible for the beeping noise. I noticed that most advices… [Read more…]
November 8, 2011
As usual, FreeElectrons hosts the videos of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, together with the presented material: Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 videos Here is a personal selection of videos that I find most interesting: Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Thomas Gleixner, Paul McKenney moderated by Lennart Poettering Kernel Developer Panel Video (55 minutes): full HD… [Read more…]
October 25, 2011
Sunday I went to a LinuxDay 2011 event organized near my city. There were presentation from the world of academics (Polytechnics of Turin and Milan) and the industry (Google, Canonical, …), but one talk was different from the others, in the sense that it was less technical and more human. A small girl approached the… [Read more…]
October 18, 2011
I’ll probably never be as good, I’ll certainly never stop trying. The things we take for granted today are the revolutions of yesterday.
October 16, 2011
Google has recently implemented two-factor authentication for user accounts. After reading its description and watching the explanatory video (here is the guide) I activated this option as soon as I could. It really is as user-friendly as it gets, for the security it gives. Since I own an Android phone I also activated the ability… [Read more…]
October 13, 2011
I talked about Convergence before: Convergence: fixing SSL security New Convergence notaries emerge The main list of Convergence notaries is on this Wiki page: Notary list : share and find notaries! Notaries I suggest to add every notary on that list and immediately disable it in the Firefox add-on options, then take your time to… [Read more…]
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