Tiva cc3200: Get serial port working under Linux
Tiva cc3200 is a small board with an integrated wifi-chip. The Linux-kernel needs a few configs to be able to talk to this board using a serial console( via usb):
Recording terminal-sessions
Recording any terminal session to a gif is easy. I use ttyrec to record a session and ttygif to convert it to GIF.
Starting vim in english
There are plenty of settings for the language in vim. Regarding to vim's documentation there is a very simple way to set the language for a vim-session to english:
env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 vim
End-To-End-Encryption for messengers
End-To-End-Encryption is nothing new. With messengers like Whatsapp or Telegram it's again an issue. If E2E-Encryption means that nobody but the endpoints are able to encrypt the messages, then how is this feature implemented so seamlessly?
Perf - More than just counters
Perf is a profiler tool for Linux 2.6+ based systems that abstracts away CPU hardware differences in Linux performance measurements and presents a simple commandline interface. Perf is based on the perf_events interface exported by recent versions of the Linux kernel. This article demonstrates the perf tool through example runs.
Duplicity: restore the state of a file from a specific date
Duplicity is a powerful backup-tool for encrypted incremental backups to a local or a remote storage. In this article I will describe how to recover a state of a file from a specific date...
Git: Comparing a local branch with a remote branch
Sometimes we want to review the differences between the remote repository and the local one.
Reading out BIOS-Information
If you want to find out some information about your BIOS or if your machine has a raid-controller, you can use the following command...
Simple WebApp-Stress-Tool
Simulty is a very simple webapp-stress-tool. It reads random urls from a file and executes multiple get-requests simultaneously to them.
Setup LXC-Container in Debian Jessie
LXC-Containers are very useful. They are more leightweight than virtual machines and not as static as docker-containers. That's why I like them especially for my server environments. In this article I will show a very basic setup of LXC-Containers on Debian Jessie.