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Raspberry PI and Multiple GSM Modems
by clintcan • • 1 Comment
A little update on my PI adventures… Since I’ve decided to use my router running Tomato firmware as a DLNA/Samba Server (extending the memory as a swap file partition to make it not hang), my PI has been unused for…
A Cheap DLNA Media Server Using Tomato
by clintcan • • 0 Comments
This is just really a short port. Although I bought my Tomato flashed router quite a while ago, it was only now that I started looking into the features of this software (I revived a damaged 500Gb SATA harddisk which…
A Raspberry PI Seedbox Using Transmission Client
by clintcan • • 0 Comments
I’ve seen people in the net asking on how to make a seedbox for the raspberry pi (download whole linux distributions through bittorrent without turning on your desktop computer – the PI makes a great low-power solution for this). It’s…
Running a Caching Proxy Server with Traffic Optimization Using Ziproxy and Squid In Raspberry PI
by clintcan • • 5 Comments
A week ago, I received my Raspberry PI through the mail. Due to real life issues, I wasn’t able to do testing on this small ARM computer. So after buying a cheap usb wifi dongle and assembling the casing, I…
A Linux Rant
by clintcan • • 2 Comments
This is a short rant I would like to say out there. I know, I know, the links which I will post here are outdated, but I still think its relevant. Before you go and bash me for being a…
How to force TLP to run on a laptop with a defective upower daemon – Programming in Perl
by clintcan • • 0 Comments
UPower is an abstraction for enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history and statistics. Any application or service on the system can access the org.freedesktop.UPower service via the system message bus. Some operations (such as suspending the…
Optimize Power Settings on Your Laptop with TLP in Lubuntu/Ubuntu
by clintcan • • 0 Comments
This is the third in the series while optimizing my Samsung Series 5 535u3c Ultrabook. With the default Lubuntu/Ubuntu settings, power consumption isn’t that optimal. In fact, the power my ultrabook uses when idle averages about 11-12W (basically about almost…
Bash Script for Brightness Controls For Samsung 535u3c in Lubuntu/Ubuntu/Linux
by clintcan • • 4 Comments
The default proprietary linux display drivers in Xorg for Lubuntu which I installed in my Samsung 535u3c ultrabook doesn’t work for the lcd brightness settings (xbacklight doesn’t work for this notebook). After setting up my sound successfully, this is the…
Audio Fix for Samsung 535u3c and Lubuntu/Ubuntu
by clintcan • • 1 Comment
I recently bought a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook Model 535u3c, which is powered by an AMD Dual-Core A6-4455M with 7500 Radeon Graphics to replace my 3 years running aging Benq netbook (which is admittedly physically banged up enough with lots…