Tag: Linux

Openvpn in the TP-LINK WR841N[D]
by dodger

Hi folks,
Here comes a post to improve that great router from TP-LINK.
Of course, I suppose you’re running openwrt on it to use the whole power of it.
The 1st I saw was that you have available a plenty set of packages… but you don’t have enough ROM to install them :-P
Inspecting a bit, I saw that under /tmp you have a “lot” of free space! (about 14MB), that will be enough to allow run openvpn without problems.
The main problem? Its a ramdisk, so each boot, everything there disappears.
What I’ve done? Install the basics with opkg and wget on boot the rest ;-)

UPDATED SCRIPT!

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Rendimiento de algunas versiones de Android
by dodger

Como usuario freak de android, de vez en cuando me gusta ir cambiando de rom para ver qué se ofrece de nuevo :-)
Asi que soy asiduo de XDA…

Esta semana me decidí a cambiar mi cyanogenmod 10.0 por “alguna otra” y decidí probar la “Slim beam” por aquello de “slim”, a ver si realmente es slim y tal.

La verdad es que es la 2ª vez que me meto el batacazo con una rom, la otra fue también con una 4.2.2 (y volví a 4.1.2).
Pero es que esto es exagerado, yo creo que ni la stock rom iba TAN MAL, es arrancar Opera con más de 1 pestaña (o 1 pestaña con muchas cosas) y se queda congelado.

No sé si es que no le he hecho el tunning apropiado (overclock, vaya), por que menos apps no puedo tener! ya me cuido de tener pocas cosas corriendo.
En fin, que voy a probar una AOKP pura y sino, otra vez a CM…

UPS Salicru en Nut
by dodger

Después de ver la exigua entrada del compañero “cerebro” en su blog y viendo que yo estoy en la misma situación que algunas personas, he dedicido publicar un mini-howto para los SAIS Salicru con NUT (sin cacti :-P)

Lo primero por supuesto es bajar el código fuente (en mi caso obligatorio, seguramente en una distribución normal, no haga falta ;-) ).

En mi caso, lo he configurado con esta linea:
./configure --prefix=/home/apps/nut \
--with-usb \
--without-doc \
--with-serial \
--without-ipmi \
--without-freeipmi \
--without-macosx_ups \
--without-avahi \
--with-cgi
Y compilado como siempre :-P

La configuración tal como dice el blog anterior se basa en el driver “blazer_usb”.
Como no tengo mucho tiempo, en vez de leer el manual fui por la via rápida (prueba-> error o ingeniería inversa) y me ha costado un poco descifrar como va el tema.
La cuestión es que hay que lanzar 3 demonios:

  • upsdrvctl lanza el “driver” encargado de coumincarse con el UPS
  • upsd se comunica con el driver (blazer_usb) y abre un socket
  • upsmon se conecta al socket de upsd y monitoriza

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The inexpensive Video-Phone project
by dodger

Happy new year!!!
After my adventures trying to build Android from source, I want to explain the reason for that.
As I live very far from my fathers and they’re elder, I’ve been thinking for a long time how to have a easy way to make videoconf with them and share photos… The usual things you know?
The main problem was that they’ve never used a PC and the newest gadget they have is a Nokia X2…

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My adventures with Android (I)
by dodger

The history:

Recently I bough a “Ainol tornados” for testing purposes, and that was the cheapest one (~60€ shipping included!)
When it arrives to me, I tried to install openvpn (is basic for my project) but nothing on the “tun.ko” repo works for me :-(, the “magic string” which makes match a module with the kernel does not match and I tried all the avalaible rom except 4.0.4.
The problem was the insmod itself, not the tun.ko installer.
So I decided to build my own version of the android :-)

Here begins the adventure itself…
I downloaded the source code directly from Ainol forums… That HUGE package contains EVERYTHING for building (android-sdk, android-ndk, crosscompilers in multiple versions, emulator files… ETC), so don’t care about that if you’ll donwnload it.
Starting from the AOSP project wiki, I set up the build environment with java6, make 3.81.
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Parallel rsync’ing a huge directory tree
by dodger

Some days ago I was on the chance to transfer a huge directory.

Huge means ~50TB with +10million files and a deep of only 6 folders under the parent one.
As I must do that kind of transfer more than 10 times with the same amount of folders… I decided to implement some kind of parallel function which launch parallel rsync’s at a given deep of my choose.

The ressult was that “pure bash” little script (the only dependency is “screen”)… You’ll notice that the main function “sync_this()” will run alone in your script only changing 2 or 3 variables ;-)
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