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Disabling the SELinux policy to fix Chrome’s flash player. For those who don’t know what SELinux is, it was invented as an innoculant against the “ease of use” people sometimes try to add to Linux.

A look at a D-Link IP camera – one of the few cameras that let you upload images to an FTP server at regular intervals. And all without needing to install apps or use “the cloud”.

1 year later, a few dead LEDs. And many, many dead bugs.

Putting together a computer that has extremely low idle power consumption AND can handle some casual gaming is pretty tough. Just in case someone’s aiming to do it and isn’t sure where to begin, I figured I’d list some details about the machine I just put together so that you’ve got something to start with …

Been quite a while since my last case review, but while waiting on a motherboard to arrive, I figured it was time for another!

Apple’s 32-bit EFI implementation on late 2006 Macs makes it tricky to get 64-bit Linux distros installed. Tricky, but not impossible…

Compiling HandBrake on ARM. No, not that thing attached to your hand, silly! Not unless your arm runs Ubuntu (and if it does, you might be a Borg in which case you may as well assimilate this information anyway).

Issues I’ve run into a few times when trying to compile HB on fresh Ubuntu installs, and the “solutions” that I’ve come up with.

Looking at a dedicated ARM server. They can handle phones and tablets, but can they handle… a website!?

Want an email when a file is uploaded to S3 with some basic human-readable details? Amazon’s got you covered. Just use S3 *and* Lambda *and* SNS. Oh and you’ll probably need to step into IAM and CloudWatch too. Amazon: There’s nothing we can’t split across 5 separate services.