Updated 2018: Just download Etcher which works like a charm. Although the below still works! Writing SDCard images using my Macbook took way to long, up to half an hour to write one simple Raspberry Pi image to a SDCard. I just did what many instructions told me to do. You will probably recognize this command: dd if=/path/to/image/file.img of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m […]
Update OMD 1.00 to 1.21 on Raspberry Pi
Today the new Raspberry Pi 2 model B was announced. ARMv7 CPU with 1 Gb of memory. This made me search for OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) for ARMv7 (Which can be found here). While searching I stumbled upon an update OMD 1.21 for ARMv6 which is the original Raspberry Pi. I have two Pi’s running. […]
Limit SD Card writes on Rasberry Pi usin...
A SD card has a limited amount of writes it can handle. The Raspberry Pi will write to log files a lot and reduce the lifetime of your SD Card. Update 3-2-2016: RamLog seems not to be compatible with Debian Jessie. I haven’t tried it yet but I have found a blog that might offer […]
Raspberry Pi Open Monitoring Distributio...
Post updated 29-11-2019. Checkmk is now owned / created by Tribe29. Check_MK has been renamed to checkmk. I haven’t used checkmk for a while, so the code examples below still contains the old name: Check_MK. Read the manual, google and find out for yourself if the commands are still valid or that you have to […]
Synology DSM 5.1 upgrade and Rsync Backu...
After upgrading my Synology from DSM 5.0 to 5.1 I noticed that Rsync from my Macbook to the Synology didn’t work anymore. Read my post on how to set Backup from Macbook to Synology using Rsync. To fix the issue was quite simple: In the Synology DSM go to the config screen, choose Backup and […]
Create bootable USB stick
I had to create an USB Bootdisk running DOS and preferably using my Mac. I found this great article explaining how to do this. It recommends two different tools of which I tried UNetbootin on the Mac and it created the bootdisk with FreeDos.
Time Machine with Raspberry Pi
Create a Time Machine backup location for you Mac OS X systems using a Raspberry Pi and an USB harddisk. Works like a charm! Setup your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian and connect the USB Harddisk. Login to your RPi and execute the following command: $ sudo fdisk -l Your disk will be one of the /dev/sd* […]
Notification when host unavailable
I needed a solution to check every x-minutes if my IP camera is still online. I use the Pushingbox.com service to send a notification when a certain host is not available. Checkout Pushingbox.com to see which kinds of notification services they offer. At least a notification to email and Prowl! is possible. I’ve combined the […]
Lightroom Catalog Sync using Dropbox sel...
A while ago I wrote a post about how I use Dropbox to sync my Adobe Lightroom catalog across multiple computers. This worked fine until I started using a Mac OS X Lion system, actually at the moment of writing I want to sync between two Mac OS X Lion systems. (The next section contains […]