We may soon, for the first time, see executives go to prison for this ludicrous decision and the actions they took after. If you haven’t heard of the Equifax Inc. (EFX) data breach you haven’t turned on either a radio or a television or went to an actual news site with your browser. Business after Business has been trying to skate on their fiduciary responsibilities by relying on “free stuff” which cannot be made secure in … So – You Think Commodity Hardware and a Free OS are Business WorthyRead more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt 11
This post is a bit of housekeeping. Since I started this series my development machines have all moved to KDE Neon so I started reading forward from the original post and when I got to this post I realized we didn’t have a pre-installed method of restoring a Raspbian image. Yes, there are lots of posts giving you the dd command for restore after you run a bunch of other commands to identify the SD … How Far We’ve Come – Pt 11Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 10
Admittedly we are at the “I hate broken things” stage of this project. The application itself will compile and run locally, but distcc used to work. As you can see, even the browse functionality works. At first I thought this was simply due to moldy posts on the Internet. Lots of posts say things like “current version of Linux” instead of the actual version they are using. For the record: roland@roland-desktop:~/piBuild/pitools/arm-bcm2708$ lsb_release -irc Distributor … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 10Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 9
I will begin this post by informing you not everything works yet. I’m including this post in the series because learning how to un-screw stuff is almost as important as learning how to do it right. In fact, it is probably more important. Configuring build environments has got to be my least favorite thing to do. As a consultant I typically don’t join a project until after someone else has already done that and created … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 9Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 8
This is where we begin to merge our discussion of distcc and the Raspberry Pi. The first thing I needed to do was actually get distcc installed on the Pi. Don’t forget the monitor so you can tell if things are working. I also created a ~/.distcc/hosts file. localhost roland-desktop roland-HP-Compaq-8100-Elite-SFF-PC After adding the previously mentioned make options to the project my out of the box attempt went like this: Notice the red bars? This … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 8Read more