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OrangePi poor replacement for the real Raspberry Pi

I was intrigued with low price of Orange Pi PC on GearBest site and since I had a lot of unused points I decided to order one even though I did not really need it. For a few bucks you get quad core CPU, 1GB of RAM, Ethernet all the bells and whistles as Raspberry Pi for third of the price.

What could go wrong? Well it seems for this price you get what you paid for a third of quality manufacturing. As soon as I opened my box I noticed that the board is slightly bent as you can see on the picture here: Continue reading “OrangePi poor replacement for the real Raspberry Pi”

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Fix heartbleed / cve-2014-0160 on ARM Ubuntu 13.04 with packages from 12.04

Easy and dirty solution for your EOL (end of life) Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail for the Heartbleed / cve-2014-0160?

wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/openssl_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb \
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb \
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl-dev_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb

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Enable shell colored prompt on Ubuntu / Debian

Look at your home directory and the file .bashrc. Find these lines:

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes
Uncomment force_color_prompt=yes, save and login again.

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