Notepad of a tinker, maker, hacker or whatever you call it :)
I spend a bit of time figuring out how to associate ".stl" extensions with Slic3r. Gnome wrote a good documentation but it is not obvious to find. I do not use the package manager for that because I use up to date AppImage. The resume is: Create /usr/share/mime/packages/slic3r....
Read MoreThanks to Let's Encrypt program, we can now generate free SSL certificate. I used the beta program with success, but now I tried on another server running through HAProxy. This is a trick to combine certificate, chain and private key in order to be loaded by HAProxy :) cat cert.pem chain.pem privkey.pem...
Read MoreI am currently building a Python application, which let me use: Flask - a simple and very well documented web Framework Flask-Security - an extension dedicated to user management. While it is a really great extension, there is some documentation missing or quite hard to find on search engines or StackOverflow. How to add...
Read MoreI have lost few couples of minutes trying to figuring where and how rss2mail is storing its configuration files, as it seems not be written in the documentation. It is a small couples of Python scripts which parse an RSS feed and send it to an email address, but configuring it to have HTML...
Read MoreI recently bought an SSD for my old Apple computer. I updated the system from Snow Leopard to Yosemite as some applications requires a newer system. Two weeks after I found that my FTDI chip (serial to USB converter) was faulty. Use another, same problem. After a quick loop with an oscilloscope, the reset...
Read MoreI just picked up a mini PC (Fujitsu Q5030) and tried to install Linux on it but the CD reader seems not to be reliable. So I used the boot over ethernet function. As my DHCP server is on the modem of my internet provider, I had to plug directly the computer to my...
Read MoreI am using a lot of web services on a server, and was bored to remember all addresses and change my firewall rules each time. So I use HAProxy to redirect all incoming http traffic to the right server/port by checking the requested URL. Moreover, I configured it as an SSL endpoint, so...
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