I decided to upgrade a spare netbook from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster). This went really well, just a case of editing /etc/apt/source.list then running apt update && apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade I didn’t see any messages during this process. Not the process is not fully automated here, it will stop and ask…
Continue readingTesting
ToriOS Testing 2018.1
ToriOS Testing 2018.1 ToriOS is a GNU/Linux Operating System built for very old computers (NON PAE) and for those who are interested and brave enough to build their own system the way they like from a fully working base with GUI and minimal installed packages by default. http://torios.top/ Latest testing iso available. Taken from…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 24
Further to part 22 of this blog series. I have now, through a lot of trial, error, hacking and experimentation with code got to the point where the LCD screen now displays wet or dry depending on the value of the analogue input. The code is below, it isn’t perfect but this works, so I…
Continue readingDebian Jessie: Owncloud Part 4
Parts 2 and 3 of this series seem to be in limbo until I figure out what the issues are. However I have now solved another issue. With the server PC, I have on-board graphics and an AGP slot with a graphics card in. This AGP card was enabled for the install. I found…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 21
I have now built a plant moisture monitor from project 8 in the Arduino project handbook. I still need to do some finer calibration but it works. If you have the book, the project is on page 58/59. The code can be downloaded from https://arduinohandbook.wordpress.com/projects/8-plant-monitor/ The full code from the book is now…
Continue readingToriOS Daily Build 1
Anyone following this blog will know that I am involved with ToriOS. ToriOS is a GNU / Linux based system designed for low power and low memory systems, hence support for non-PAE hardware. ToriOS is currently in the late stages of development, and we would like more testers for the daily build iso files. More…
Continue readingEncoding text
As my notepad program now has an option to encode text using ROT13, I have written a very basic (and rough) program to just do that. The program is very basic, and just encodes the text, the code is as follows: For reference the original code can be found here. The program is more…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 10
This evening I soldered up the Traffic light project I blogged about in Part 8 of this series, this was the first of the two projects as in just a red , yellow , green sequence. There isn’t really room on here to have the 2 x 3mm leds for red / green man. This…
Continue reading