SpotOn – Zeros and ones, Storage and servers, Digital and analogue

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, throwable, checkable, cheap and ugly as fuck.

Also, the results can be seen here: https://bastart.spoton.cz/temphumi/ and especially, the graphing for battery state (3rd graph from top): https://bastart.spoton.cz/status/

Search no more, as you have found it, read on and relive the ecstatic feelings of designing an ass-ripping ultra portable ESP8266 powered temperhumi meter for a couple [f|b]ucks.

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

en, it, Unix / Linux

ventilJanuary 28, 2019August 20, 20199 Comments

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 a conclusion, that I need a new computer (understand laptop) that should be capable of some pretty advanced stuff, be portable and MUST be good looking – we all know that is the most important one. Also, it cannot be an apple…

Terrapin Kaiju pinhole

Analog, en, Photography

ventilSeptember 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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Gitea, what’s up?

en, it, Unix / Linux

ventilJune 18, 2018

GitHub has been recently (as of writing this article) acquired by Micro$oft. Some might like it, some might not. If you, as I do, belong to the GTFO camp, let’s face it: There is a quadrillion of possibilities, some are plain stupid, others perfectly perfect. I choose GiTea – and self-hosted on top of that!

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Resize LVM and ext4 online

en, it, storage, Unix / Linux

ventilJune 5, 2018

If you ever need to resize a device on a Unix like system and are using LVM as the underlying mediator and ext2/3/4 as the file system, it can be done without a reboot. This is quite handy for ESX and other virtual machines.

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37 Decembers

Analog, en, Photography

ventilFebruary 23, 2018February 21, 2019

One roll of film, one month, 37 exposures and 31 days. Continue reading “37 Decembers”

DJI’s Mavic BW images for a lazy Monday

Digital, en, Photography

ventilFebruary 19, 2018

Now some time ago, I’ve treated myself with a – what I thought back then – videographic tool. It came to my attention that it is quite a capable device for photography as well, albeit quite “retro” spected and flawed… nevertheless, it can be used – and – it flies as well. Continue reading “DJI’s Mavic BW images for a lazy Monday”

Upgrading firmware on a Brocade SAN switch

it, storage

ventilDecember 13, 2017

Craving for quick and dirty way for a Brocade fiber switch upgrade? Here goes… Continue reading “Upgrading firmware on a Brocade SAN switch”

Extremely useful Unix one-liners

it, Unix / Linux

ventilDecember 5, 2017

Simple and effective, if you know what you’re doing. That is the CLI, or terminal on any UNIX based system. I’ll just dump all one-line commands that might come in handy – here. Continue reading “Extremely useful Unix one-liners”

Reverse SSH proxy with SystemD

it, Unix / Linux

ventilDecember 4, 2017

You have a really shitty ISP (Internet Service Provider) and have no way to port forward, or are behind 10,000 billion firewalls and NAT things. Do you cry, or do womething with it? If you want to have your Home / ServerRoom / AnyOtherCrapLocation accessible and do not have to administer a shitload of users, then Continue reading “Reverse SSH proxy with SystemD”