retropie and emulationstation

I got very bored a couple of nights ago and decided i wanted to play some classic video games, so i dug out an old rpi and installed retropie along with all the atari, nes, snes, and sega mastersystem games i could find. Here are some shots of this: the hardware: Click to enlarge. the … Read More

creating a permanent symlink in synology

This article is more for me not to forget. So if you are creating a symlink to a dir: mkdir ‹PATH/TO/LINK› mount -o bind ‹TARGET› ‹LINK› to make it permanent: add mount -o bind ‹TARGET› ‹LINK› to /etc/rc.local

multiboot flash drive : openbsd installation media

So after writing the previous article about booting multiple distros from one flash drive, i realized that i needed to do some openbsd installs with zero network access. at time of writing i was installing openbsd54 Here are the steps i took to add openbsd install media on my multiboot flash drive first we need … Read More

simple system stats script for graphite

so i wrote a little script for dumping some stats to a graphite server. script is located here. all you have to do to get this working: ensure nc is installed ensure vmstat is installed change gserver and gport to matching graphite server and port and cron this to run every minute or so. it … Read More

gentoo spotify from deb file

this is how i got spotify to work on my install of gentoo. YMMV. grab a copy of the deb from here. just make sure to grab one for your respective build (x86 or amd64). at the time of writing, spotify-client_0.9.1.55.gbdd3b79.203-1_amd64.deb was the version available. now lets uncompress the file : ar x file.deb which … Read More

some gentoo lovin’ (screenshots)

nothing in this post of any relevant value other than to show genoo running both spotify and steam. steam: click image to enlarge spotify: click image to enlarge love me some gentoo….

high availability with keepalived for Mysql

so i needed to setup 2 mysql servers in a HA setup on CentOS 6, i decided to use keepalived (yum search keepalive). here were the requirements: – 1 virtual ip – both servers had to still replicate from each other but only one can take traffic from the vip – quick failover incase machine … Read More

console-kit-daemon shenanigans

so for a long time i was wondering what console-kit-daemon was and why were there so many of them running on my machine. example: ono-sendai ~ % ps -eLf | grep console-kit | grep -v grep root 1981 1 1981 0 65 Oct15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon root 1981 1 1983 0 65 Oct15 ? 00:00:00 … Read More