Alex's blog

I've started with a simple script to compress Firefox's sqlite databases before creating a backup of my $HOME directory alex...

Sometimes I use my Xubuntu notebook as a NAT gateway for my Windows 7 computer because its WLAN interface works in 5GHz band and Window...

I was looking for a cheap USB to Serial TTL cable that would have a 3,5mm audio plug on its end. Such a cable can easily be found on Ama...

If you need to annotate a bunch of JPG pictures the following simple bash script could come in handy. Script uses pictures EXIF date and...

Several years ago I wanted to buy a TV table that I could place into a corner. I went to every nearby furniture store but couldn't f...

As a student I have investigated properties of different scanning algorithm to unwrap an N-dimensional array into one dimensional. One ...

I have already described a project based on the AVR-Stick hardware. The next thing I wanted to try with that hardware is to create an...

I've stumbled recently upon a little gem called AVR-Stick and bought two of them for about 7 € per stick . I also had a thermoregul...

I was looking for a way to display an icon on a xfce desktop panel on some event. One possible solution is to use the xfce4-messenger-plug...

dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server used primarily in embedded systems (like routers) where resources are limited. DNS...