tips’n’tricks
Beside retro-gaming I am using Raspberry Pi 2 as my always on media center running Xbian.
I weighted between OpenELEC and Xbian and at the moment of my decision Xbian won me over with file-system. Xbian uses btrfs snapshot system which proved to be quite useful if you run into any kind of trouble since it is really easy to do a fallback to previous file system snapshot. Continue reading “Excellent protective ABS Case for Raspberry Pi 2 / B+ for multimedia use”
Lack of hardware clock on Raspberry Pi is not that big of a deal if you are online all the time. For a few $ you can add this feature to your pi.
I ordered mine on eBay for less than $2, so I can recommend the seller here:
New DS3231 Precision RTC Module Memory Module for Arduino Raspberry Pi Continue reading “Add hardware clock (RTC hwclock) DS3231 to Raspberry Pi”
There is a lot of things you can do with Raspberry Pi, but for retro-game lover it can be a dream project enabler. Continue reading “Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part I – The Hardware”
To prevent mail messages piling up from your crontab commands you add the following at the end of your crontab line:
>/dev/null 2>&1
or
&> /dev/null
To prevent POODLE (“Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption”) attach which is a man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of SSL3.0 vulnerability it is necessary to disable SSLv3 in your web server configuration.
To check if you are vulnerable to this attack you can use the form on following website:
https://www.digicert.com/help/ Continue reading “Apache: How to Disable the SSL v3 Protocol on Debian”