The author, a Linux user, wanted to play a Windows-only game without dedicating space in their PC for Windows. They decided to netboot Windows 11 from their NAS using iSCSI and iPXE, and documented the process in this article.
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0Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson
2024-10-28 •
The author discusses the process of assembling a Game Boy game using Meson, a build system. The author explains the frustration with GNU Make and the benefits of Meson's build rules. They also describe creating a fork of Meson to ...
Portage is Gentoo’s source-based package manager, commonly invoked with the emerge tool. The Prefix project allows it to be used by users of other distributions and Unix-like operating systems in a “virtualenv”-type fashion. Porta...
The text discusses the author's experience with a 1990s Garmin GPS 95, including the issues with the device's date and time, the use of serial communication, and the process of converting the serial signal to TTL. The author also ...
0A modern, universal, Dreamcast power supply
2024-06-09 •
The author shares their experience of playing Dreamcast and the challenges they faced with the power supply when moving to the Netherlands. They discuss their search for a replacement power supply and their design of the Dreamcast...
The author discusses the process of creating self-hosted tile maps from OpenStreetMap data for the NLAlerts project. They explain the process of importing the data, rendering the tiles, and using the datasette-tiles plugin to disp...
0Controlling the XM PCR receiver from Linux
2023-05-08 •
The text discusses the author's experience controlling the XM PCR satellite radio receiver from Linux, detailing the reverse engineering of the protocol and the creation of a GUI program to control the receiver. The author also ex...
0HPSS-Disassembly Progress Report (May 2022)
2022-05-31 •
The author discusses the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Game Boy Color game, comparing it to other versions and detailing the disassembly process. The author has started a project to disassemble the game and documents the t...
0Systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems
2021-12-26 •
The text discusses the issue of systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems, which causes problems with DNS resolution and TLS certificates. It provides a solution to the problem by utilizing a systemd feature and scripting periodi...
0Clearing Custom Search Engines in Chrome
2021-08-18 •
The text explains how to clear custom search engines in Google Chrome, as the browser remembers custom search engines for websites visited, resulting in a long list. The page to manage custom search engines in Chrome does not have...
0Setting up a git server on NixOS
2021-01-27 •
The author discusses setting up a git server on NixOS, consolidating personal infrastructure, and documenting deployments. They use cgit, git-shell, and h2o for the server, and configure ACME certificates and general housekeeping....
0Pebble and lego to test ACME with NixOS
2021-01-14 •
The text discusses how to test ACME with NixOS using Pebble and Lego. It explains how to configure Pebble to start and how to configure Lego to use it. It also provides information on how to modify the behavior of Pebble through e...
0K9P: Kubernetes as 9P Files
2019-11-20 •
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0Building a Hardware MIDI Player
2019-02-02 •
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The text discusses the use of memfd_create() in Linux 3.17 and later to create temporary in-memory files in Go. It explains how to create a temporary file, the benefits of using memfd_create(), and how to turn a file descriptor in...
0Hardware MIDI Player (Part One)
2018-09-17 •
The text discusses the author's project to build a hardware MIDI player using a Raspberry Pi and a USB floppy drive. The author describes the hardware and software components, as well as the challenges faced during the development...
0Black-box Serial Testing
2018-07-27 •
The text discusses the concept of black-box testing and how it can be used to test the functionality of a program without leveraging implementation details. It specifically focuses on testing a program that communicates over a ser...
0Controller: Extending your K8s cluster
2018-05-04 •
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0Go Internalization and Localization
2018-05-02 •
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0Extending Kubernetes
2018-05-01 •
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0Game Boy Collage #1
2017-11-13 •
The author plans to create a collage from the internals of a classic Nintendo Game Boy, with detailed schematics and annotations. They have three 8-bit handhelds, including the original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and GB Boy Colour....