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Goal: to use an OpenWrt capable router to receive wireless sensors reading and log them using OpenWrt luci-app-statistics module. Why...

I do upgrade packages manually on my machine because I want to control when and what to upgrade. Security freaks could argue that it is no...

One of the issues with the rtl_433 application is that it is not possible to connect it to a remote rtl_tcp server using syntax support...

I was a bit astonished that I couldn't find a working example written in bash on the net that would create gists on the github from...

In my first article I have demonstrated the gnuplotwindow.sh script and other utilities to feed the gnuplot with live data streams. ...

Here is the next article from my "Minimal Xubunu Installation" serie. This time I'll be installing Xubuntu 16.04 LTS code...

This article describes a tiny framework consisting mainly of bash scripts to feed the gnuplot with live data. Different examples ar...

As we know Ubuntu has switched to the new "shiny" init system called systemd since the release 15.04. But the integration of th...

Since around a year or two I've been using i3 tiling window manager together with the xfce4 services as my desktop environment and ...

As I started to use the i3 window manager I wanted to have a visual feedback on sound volume change events. Usually it's done by a d...