Kodi PS3 BD Remote

Setting up a PS3 Blu-Ray Disc Remote with Kodi

 Posted on June 16, 2020  (Last modified on June 17, 2020)  |  14 minutes  |  2960 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Setting up a Sony PS3 Blu-Ray Disc Remote Controller with Kodi TLDR; Since most of the articles on the internet were either obsolete or broken, I’ve chosen to write these notes down in the form of a blog post so that it helps me now and in future, and hopefully others too. Raspberry Pi All this time, I have been using the Raspberry Pi for my HTPC needs. The first RPi I acquired was in 2014 and I have been very very happy with the amount of support in the community and quality of the HTPC offering it has. [Read More]
Linux  Debian  Kodi  PS3  HTPC  XBMC  BD Remote 

Apt Offline 1.8.2

Offline APT Package Manager

 Posted on February 9, 2020  |  19 minutes  |  3922 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

apt-offline 1.8.2 I am pleased to announce the release of apt-offline version 1.8.2 This release has many bug fixes along with a long standing issue of signature validation 2017 - The year of realization and change Back in 2017, the bug was reported that apt-offline did not validate apt meta Packages files. apt-offline was only doing a signature validation for the Release files but did no validation of the apt meta Packages files, which had their checksums listed in the Release files. [Read More]
Linux  Debian  APT  apt-offline  Package Management 

Laptop Mode Tools 1.73

Laptop Mode Tools: Power Savings Tool for Linux

 Posted on January 11, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  743 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Laptop Mode Tools 1.73 I am pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools version 1.73 This release includes many bug fixes. For user convenience, 2 command options have been added. rrs@priyasi:~$ laptop_mode -h **************************** Following user commands are understood status : Display a Laptop Mode Tools power savings status power-stats : Display the power statistics on the machine power-events : Trap power related events on the machine help : Display this help message (--help, -h) version : Display program version (--version, -v) **************************** 15:22 ♒ ॐ ☺ 😄 rrs@priyasi:~$ sudo laptop_mode status [sudo] password for rrs: Mounts: /dev/mapper/nvme0n1p4_crypt on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag,subvolid=5,subvol=/) /dev/nvme0n1p3 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime) /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro) /dev/fuse on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) Drive power status: Cannot read /dev/[hs]d[abcdefgh], permission denied - /usr/sbin/laptop_mode needs to be run as root (NOTE: drive settings affected by Laptop Mode cannot be retrieved. [Read More]
Linux  Laptop Mode Tools  Power Savings 

Comments on Hugo with Isso

Enabling an independent self-hosting commenting system with Isso on Hugo

 Posted on October 30, 2019  |  4 minutes  |  787 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Integrating Comments on Hugo with Isso Oh! Boy. Finally been able to get something set up almost to my liking. After moving away from Drupal to Hugo, getting the commenting system in place was challenging. There were many solutions but I was adamant to what I wanted. Simple. Something very simple so that I can spend very limited time to tickle with (especially 2 years down the line) Independent. No Google/Facebook/3rd Party dependency Simple workflow. [Read More]
Hugo  Isso  Blog  Comments  Static Site 

User Mode Linux 5.2

 Posted on October 17, 2019  |  4 minutes  |  690 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

User Mode Linux 5.2 User Mode Linux version 5.2 has been uploaded to Debian Unstable and will soon be available on the supported architectures. This upload took more time than usual as I ran into a build time failure caused by newer PCAP library. Thanks to active upstream developers, this got sorted out quick. In the longer run, we may have a much better fix for it. What is User Mode Linux a. [Read More]
Linux  Virtualization  UML  User Mode Linux 

Bpfcc New Release

 Posted on October 14, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  536 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

BPF Compiler Collection 0.11.0 bpfcc version 0.11.0 has been uploaded to Debian Unstable and should be accessible in the repositories by now. After the 0.8.0 release, this has been the next one uploaded to Debian. Multiple source respositories This release brought in dependencies to another set of sources from the libbpf project. In the upstream repo, this is still a topic of discussion on how to release tools where one depends on another, in unison. [Read More]
Linux  BCC  BPFCC  Tracing  eBPF 

Cross Architecture Linux Containers

 Posted on July 19, 2019  |  9 minutes  |  1827 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Linux and ARM With more ARM based devices in the market, and with them getting more powerful every day, it is more common to see more of ARM images for your favorite Linux distribution. Of them, Debian has become the default choice for individuals and companies to base their work on. It must have to do with Debian’s long history of trying to support many more architectures than the rest of the distributions. [Read More]
Linux  Containers  systemd  systemd-nspawn  Qemu  Virtualization  Docker 

Linux Desktop Usage 2019

 Posted on March 15, 2019  |  6 minutes  |  1167 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

If I look back now, it must be more than 20 years since I got fascinated with GNU/Linux ecosystem and started using it. Back then, it was more curiosity of a young teenager and the excitement to learn something. There’s one thing that I have always admired/respected about Free Software’s values, is: Access for everyone to learn. This is something I never forget and still try to do my bit. [Read More]
Desktop  KDE  GNOME  Linux  Integration 

Migrating from Drupal to Hugo

 Posted on November 11, 2018  |  6 minutes  |  1163 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

TL;DR: Migrating my website from Drupal 7 to Hugo Jump directly to the end titled Migration to Hugo Initial website Looking back at my website’s history, the domain was first registered sometime in 2003. Back then, it was mostly a couple of html pages. Being (and still) a novice in web, my website was mostly on ideas from others. IIRC, for the bare html one, I took a lot of look wise details from Miss Garrels’ website. [Read More]
Drupal  Drupal 7  Hugo  web 

Laptop Mode Tools 1.72

 Posted on February 1, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  364 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

What a way to make a gift! I’m pleased to announce the 1.72 release of Laptop Mode Tools. Major changes include the port of the GUI configuration utility to Python 3 and PyQt5. Some tweaks, fixes and enhancements in current modules. Extending {black,white}list of devices to types other than USB. Listing of devices by their devtype attribute. A filtered list of changes is mentioned below. For the full log, please refer to the git repository. [Read More]
Laptop Mode Tools  power saving  linux