Tag: linux

The proprietary Nvidia drivers from x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers contain the close ...

Yesterday I tried to install mongodb on my Raspberry Pi. Raspbian Jessie ships with a default mongo 2.4 package, so the installation should be pretty straightforward: apt-get install mongodbHowever, after the installation finished, the service did not start: service mongodb startdid not result in a started mongod process. No log files in ...

In order to auto format your python code according to the guidelines defined by PEP8, you can use some sane default for editing python files and flake8 to check and fix possible errors in your scripts. Default indentation rules for python filesThe default indentation rules do not comply with PEP8. In order to change them for python files, ...

After moving to the ghost blogging platform, I started running the system with SQLite as backend. Now I wanted to move from SQLite to Postgres. A Google search brought up articles like this one, which try to migrate the content of the database. Scripts are used to dump the SQLite content to an export file format, to change the SQL syntax ...

Sometimes you have certain parts of a web page that should not be accessed via HTTPs and not with clear-text HTTP. Examples for such parts of the website can be management areas of your site, which require you to be authenticated. If you have such parts of the site, then you can create a redirect that applies only to specific directories ...

The Raspberry is a nice cheap platform that can be used for many different purposes. However, the fact that it is a cheap platform means that all kinds of hardware-related problems can occur. One common problem is related to USB devices. If you connect to many devices via hubs, or devices that have high power requirements, then these devi ...

Devices from AVM are very popular in Germany. Several ISPs are happy to sell you a Fitz!Box device to connect your home to their network. The FRITZ!Box is a Linux-based device, that allows for easy configuration through its Web interface. It runs a DHCP server that will automatically assign IP addresses to newly connected devices. If yo ...

My old blog was hosted on blogspot. When I decided to host this blog myself and to move to the Ghost platform, I had the need to move the old content from blogger to Ghost. Google, who owns Blogger, provides tools to export your data from the platform. Information on how to export the data can be found here. Ghost provides an interface ...