If you own a Gigablue TV Box ( Gigablue UE 800 2 Tuner DVB-S + DVB-C for example) a reboot on Firmware 4.2 can lookup the box to factory reset. This did my box too. I decided to upgrade the Firmware from openmips 4.2 to current 5.4. But you ran into some bugs, like freezes on Firmware flashes! Hang on Reboot, or boot after Flash into old Firmware. I found some Workarounds to fix (I have a gigabue with 2 Tuners inside and a HDD) To upgrade you need 3 USB Sticks 4GB FAT32 formated Go to the official Downloadpage and download […]
Month: December 2016
Password: Simple script generator on a linux console
If you need a password creator for your daily needs you can do this with a default tool called openssl / libressl and a small bash script: Howto: open a console open as user a editor like nano or vi with $nano pwcreate.sh insert this: #!/bin/sh /bin/bash -c "for i in {1..20}; do openssl rand -base64 32; done" exit 0 exit and save the script set it to runable with $chmod 755 pwcreate.sh test it.. with ./pwcreate.sh should echo like this: 6gUUuothdHwwaWHjA/UhyCiV3FWpPC1lBQTIY3IiQn8= ozqloLyWXQyBJlcVXPVLY2PBpRV04uVkWrP6c1epxCs= gjLE6MWeK+c6EBx1wV/uUxubtrLoeUpXb4GCIEQK3b8= X4RoYhASR6i4BfwDYoB2+/gNWY1P35MM6jJYaOEpV0M= dXoLBGrRC+oei6cm6N1bD8k/ntZi5grtKLEH6SytTXQ= 2DZ1yAi96xvGlHQLQoexUhPc2w1iIqoeVW8zHaMmsvU= Vmq4r5ZXC2EKu5Ze7SLBbKavpkLQC0RRrXEGlDmxfpY= FSXmp+cVKPvpq/JhyhuGHJ2ue3L6hLEcX6XfkUCrYqg= GvbWjPYvoOWJPOMOG6oihGFQv9wNgwZO2Go/ogJkmBM= z6P+VHsGBPKTpR6yzThKjyGVVwa/WWtuv/G/aO27bEM= qBozaA2PMMy+zhVrvUNVSbP2mg9KshsXYfTzuTvmlkI= ARYyGx2dE1yfPJydBlvaNXpKmRbZI7CHbcCPDHgTcNo= 7PrqMZqFJ7gqeGzWjdqFCdIHvnl3vgoYAxiL4wN2Jcw= q6Wwi1rG0j0WqXuUhdIpZ2C7BergeqSExDv87a/DIsw= d7R6nCuYo6lo+gFiwroaAeG5RxPxWrPDf8oJxv+toHU= 7EQZysp2leEqP6eDp8M6+DeT71gpyqYEiSzMvMLjMys= B7J3JdrDxFCW3rV09Ut+wLukVgSUk41SroBQTzrgirY= yXrgYLD2YK2DN+aZCF4N6WXO/IL5RC6JM2mxW3xAnbc= Wr/QF46wo5Dtobl5maojZc2jrF4bvO1sNWed8OpTsTc= […]
Raspberry Pi: Raspian disadvantages of embedded OS
The last 12 month have been a “golden” time of the upcomming embedded linux devices, but the custom OS’s offers some problems, you should know for projects: embedded PC’s like the ARM based pi2 / pi3 uses a own compiled OS not every known debian package is available not all compile scripts to rebuild are available on git slow performance can let you run into unuseable problems (heat, load, I/O), correct written scripts run into freezes without any error made by you! you should take time for a closer look at buying them calc the costs of non-x86 systems, later […]