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“Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /config/databases” loop

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  • January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

MariaDB, or MySQL is stuck in the startup loop with a vague error: “Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /config/databases”. In fact, it is an error, where the InnoDB portion…

Raspberry Pi 4 + ArchLinux aarch64 with WiFi setup before boot
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Raspberry Pi 4 + ArchLinux aarch64 with WiFi setup before boot

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  • January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

I totally believe that many of you have been there before. You buy a Raspberry 4, excited about all the bells and whistles, make an Arch 64 bit bootable SD…

HP Primera API. API v3 and API v1
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HP Primera API. API v3 and API v1

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  • April 10, 2020

At the beginning of the journey to conquer the API of HPe Primera storages was a simple task. Create a CLI monitoring tool that could send information do different ticketing…

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Medium format camera – a hefty companion?

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  • March 27, 2020

A moderately biased comparison of medium format cameras. In the next few lines, I’d like to make a brief summary of the sizes and weights of different medium format (and…

The perfect solution to commuting
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The perfect solution to commuting

  • ventil
  • November 20, 2019

The Electric UniCycle, or the EUC for short. Once mastered, becomes THE perfect solution for daily commutes ranging from 1 to 15km. It comes in a nice, ~13kg package and…

A NetApp metrocluster sonata. A rebooting node, aggregate not healed and a tad of mojo from support
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A NetApp metrocluster sonata. A rebooting node, aggregate not healed and a tad of mojo from support

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  • October 21, 2019

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon… Based on the title, this already is a bad beginning, isn’t it? In the end the issue turned out to be less of a…

Power. Solar. Power. Bank.
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Power. Solar. Power. Bank.

  • ventil
  • October 18, 2019

Xiaomi Mi Power Bank 2S 10000mAh Quick Charge 3.0 vs. Viking Vixen QC 3.0 20000mAh A problem and a solution Recently, on a short multi-day trip in the camps and…

Not so bad temperature meter. Using ESP8266 and a DHT11
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Not so bad temperature meter. Using ESP8266 and a DHT11

  • ventil
  • February 18, 2019

In case you are a nut case and want everything monitored and under control, as I do, you NEED a temperature and humidity monitoring device that is at least semi-reliable,…

Installing Manjaro Linux on ASUS Zenbook 14 (UX433FN-A5104T)
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Installing Manjaro Linux on ASUS Zenbook 14 (UX433FN-A5104T)

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  • January 28, 2019

As I have been labeled as an impulsive, irrational individual, here comes another irrational and impulsive thing I have managed over the course of the last days. I came to…

Terrapin Kaiju pinhole
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Terrapin Kaiju pinhole

  • ventil
  • September 2, 2018

A 3D printed, simply stolen pinhole camera design. 6x18cm wide angle stuff. Needs some tweaking, but will work out wonderfully.

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