chals

28 January 2017

pharc v.6.0 released

Well, this is certainly unusual in 2017...

I used to release pharc once a year, so:
v.1.0 --> 2011
v.2.0 --> 2012
v.3.0 --> 2013
v.4.0 --> 2014
v.5.0 --> 2015

But like the wiki says:

Is pharc still actively developed?
pharc has now all the features and options I envisioned through all these years of development. From now on I only intend to make bug fixes and minor changes.

Well, this year one of the visitors said that the sorting of the archives was upside down, so I decided to change it to order archives in a more logical way.

Added to the changelog:

pharc (6.0-1)
v.6.0
Sort Archives in reverse mode.

You can read more in detail in the phlog post at: gopher://sdf-eu.org:70/1/users/chals/phlog
And get the software (all available versions) at: gopher://sdf-eu.org:70/1/users/chals/downloads/software

Have fun!

07 January 2017

raspi 3 and usb hard drive

Using a 16GB sd card for a basic cli raspbian system (no desktop environment whatsoever) is more than enough. However, it is very limited to really enjoy the awesome minidlna software I installed. So I ended up attaching a 1TB usb hard drive to my raspi 3.

The first thing to notice is that the power supply works fine supporting both devices (raspi and hard drive).

The second thing is that I can now finally enjoy the UPnP service for hours and hours during these cold winter afternoons.

Note: I've been watching SG Atlantis all afternoon. What a great Saturday :)

26 November 2016

raspi 3

My raspi 2 suddenly stopped working for an $unknown_reason I only know it lost ssh connection all the time. So I decided to get a raspi 3.

It arrived on November 24th. You could have seen me broadcast on irc the steps from the moment I put my hands on it until I finally plugged it in:

Day changed to Thu, 24 Nov 2016
[...]
10:03:06 @chals | My raspi3 kit just arrived yay
10:03:10 @chals | time to play
10:05:22 @chals | ok heat sinks in place
10:11:49 @chals | board in case...
10:13:53 @chals | case closed
10:14:01 @chals | it's show time

And here it is:

Its hostname is kiwi (legacy name from its predecesor)

(Note: Is is plugged to a 900va UPS so that it can actually work 24/7)

16 September 2016

Which film are we going to see today?

Last Wednesday I went to the movie theater with a good old friend of mine. We had been exchanging a dozen text messages trying to decide which film we were going to see. There were many many films to choose from: Ben-Hur, Pets, Cafe Society and some more. I wanted to see Suicide Squad more than any other, and when we arrived at the place here is what we saw. It was clear, we had to see it. By the way, it was great, I quite liked it.