Category Archives: Linux

Deployment of Web.py Applications Using uWSGI and Nginx on Ubuntu

Posted on February 10, 2012 by farter

The next post contains an advanced version of this guide. This post is a update to the previous one on the same topic. The environment is as usual a low-end VPS with freshly installed Ubuntu 10.04.3 Lucid LTS (minimal version). … Continue reading →

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Debian Installer for Wii

Posted on August 17, 2011 by farter

Note: this is work-in-progress. This note will be gone when the post is finished. Being the distro with the most versatile CPU architecture support, it was no wonder that Debian and its derivative systems were the first to be installed … Continue reading →

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Hacking Up an RGB Framebuffer Driver for Wii-Linux – Take Two

Posted on July 31, 2011 by farter

Note: For background information and ‘take one’, please see the previous post on this topic. There will be as little repetition as possible in this post. After the previous post on this topic went online, Malcolm Parsons from DSlinux commented … Continue reading →

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Wii Framebuffer Driver Performance Benchmarks II

Posted on July 31, 2011 by farter

This is the raw output of x11perfcomp -ro. Tests were run under Debian 5.0.8 at 640x480x16bit. For details on the different driver modes, please see this post.

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Deployment of Web.py Applications Using uWSGI and Nginx

Posted on June 30, 2011 by farter

This post is outdated. See this post for more up-to-date directions. It should be safe to assume that anyone remotely interested in such a topic must already have a fair understanding of what this post is about, so let’s not … Continue reading →

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Hacking Up an RGB Framebuffer Driver for Wii-Linux

Posted on June 22, 2011 by farter

Update: Take Two Linux was successfully ported to Wii by the gc-linux team as early as Feb 2008, shortly after the release of the Twilight hack. In the following two years, huge progress and improvements were made to the port … Continue reading →

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Wii Framebuffer Driver Performance Benchmarks

Posted on June 21, 2011 by farter

This is the raw output of x11perfcomp. Tests were run under Debian 5.0.8 at 640x480x16bit. For details on the different driver modes, please see this post.

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Running OSQA with Nginx and uWSGI: VirtualHosting Mode with DynamicApps

Posted on February 11, 2011 by farter

Following on the previous post about OSQA installation, this post discusses the co-existence of OSQA with other WSGI-compliant web applications supported by uWSGI. As has been shown in the post linked above, installing OSQA with Nginx, uWSGI and SQLite3 on … Continue reading →

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Installing OSQA with Nginx, uWSGI and SQLite3 on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) Minimal

Posted on December 12, 2010 by farter

OSQA is an open-source django-based implementation of the famous Stack Overflow Q&A community infrastructure. Its codebase was largely inherited from a Chinese project CNProg, which, for various unfortunate reasons, has closed its community site and virtually stopped development since earlier … Continue reading →

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HiMedia HD300A (RTD1073) TTL Serial Pinout

Posted on September 30, 2010 by farter

The other day I ordered one of those HD (which is conveniently capable of standing for both High Definition and Hard Drive) media player boxes. After roughly 2-3 years in the market, such products have really come a long way … Continue reading →

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