Author: Christof Meerwald

Tried to install NetBSD in an AMD64 VM with little success. Although the NetBSD loader worked fine, as soon as it transferred control to the NetBSD kernel, the VM immediately rebooted with no diagnostics appearing on the console that would give a hint…

Being fed up with the limited configurability of some of the more widely used software used for video conferencig, I have put together a small LD_PRELOAD-able shared library that limits the available resolutions a webcam reports. Have a look at the REA…

Being fed up with the limited configurability of some of the more widely used software used for video conferencig, I have put together a small LD_PRELOAD-able shared library that limits the available resolutions a webcam reports. Have a look at the REA…

Made some significant progress for running Tizen on an Orange Pi PC (and hopefully any other SBC with a similar Mali GPU). Main issue was that alignments in TBM (Tizen Buffer Manager) weren’t in sync with what the actual GPU driver expected. With that …

Made some significant progress for running Tizen on an Orange Pi PC (and hopefully any other SBC with a similar Mali GPU). Main issue was that alignments in TBM (Tizen Buffer Manager) weren’t in sync with what the actual GPU driver expected. With that …

While trying to get Tizen working on my Orange Pi PC, I noticed some strange behaviour in the Linux kernel in that SIGCHLD signals sent to the parent process don’t always set the “si_pid” field correctly. I tracked this down to a bug in the Linux kerne…

While trying to get Tizen working on my Orange Pi PC, I noticed some strange behaviour in the Linux kernel in that SIGCHLD signals sent to the parent process don’t always set the “si_pid” field correctly. I tracked this down to a bug in the Linux kerne…

Got a $20 voucher code for a review of a Rock Pi S SBC. Although the cost of the board is only $13.90, with shipping at just over $8, it’s a bit over $22 in total. When the board arrived, I did actually wonder if shipping could have been made a bit mor…

Got a $20 voucher code for a review of a Rock Pi S SBC. Although the cost of the board is only $13.90, with shipping at just over $8, it’s a bit over $22 in total. When the board arrived, I did actually wonder if shipping could have been made a bit mor…

Managed to get kmscube running on my Orange Pi PC with a mainline Linux 5.3 kernel and an updated mesa package from Ubuntu’s ubuntu-x-swat PPA. The amazing thing is that it’s all just mainline now, no board-specific patches needed. Interestingly, a Ras…

Managed to get kmscube running on my Orange Pi PC with a mainline Linux 5.3 kernel and an updated mesa package from Ubuntu’s ubuntu-x-swat PPA. The amazing thing is that it’s all just mainline now, no board-specific patches needed. Interestingly, a Ras…

My Outdoor Maps app for Samsung Gear/Galaxy watches has finally been approved in the Galaxy Store.

My Outdoor Maps app for Samsung Gear/Galaxy watches has finally been approved in the Galaxy Store.

Just added CircleCI builds to my greylstd and SIPFwd projects.

Just added CircleCI builds to my greylstd and SIPFwd projects.

Following last week’s upgrade of my Roundup instance to 1.6.0, I have now applied the Python 3 patches from issue2550960 with a few more fixes available in my py3-cmeerw branch and now have both wg21.cmeerw.net as well as issues.cmeerw.org working with…

Following last week’s upgrade of my Roundup instance to 1.6.0, I have now applied the Python 3 patches from issue2550960 with a few more fixes available in my py3-cmeerw branch and now have both wg21.cmeerw.net as well as issues.cmeerw.org working with…

wg21.cmeerw.net got a major update with Roundup being updated to 1.6.0 and the template converted to being based on jinja2 which should make it more friendly to mobile devices.

wg21.cmeerw.net got a major update with Roundup being updated to 1.6.0 and the template converted to being based on jinja2 which should make it more friendly to mobile devices.

Clearlake Capital-Backed Perforce Adds Enterprise-Grade Source Code Analysis to its Portfolio With Acquisition of PRQA

Clearlake Capital-Backed Perforce Adds Enterprise-Grade Source Code Analysis to its Portfolio With Acquisition of PRQA

I was looking at modifying acme tiny to support DNS-01 validation with a custom PowerDNS backend just a few days ago (in my case to get certificates for an XMPP server where there isn’t a corresponding HTTP server or the HTTP server is hosted on a diff…

I was looking at modifying acme tiny to support DNS-01 validation with a custom PowerDNS backend just a few days ago (in my case to get certificates for an XMPP server where there isn’t a corresponding HTTP server or the HTTP server is hosted on a diff…

HikingMaps is now also available in the Tizen Store for Tizen 3.

HikingMaps is now also available in the Tizen Store for Tizen 3.

Went for a walk from Berkhamsted to Tring, see GPS data and some pictures: here, here and here.

Went for a walk from Berkhamsted to Tring, see GPS data and some pictures: here, here and here.

Been to Galloway for a few days of (wild) camping (around Loch Dee, Loch Trool, Merrick, Loch Finlas, Loch Doon). Also stopped in Carlisle before returning back to London. See my digital photo album for a few pictures.

Been to Galloway for a few days of (wild) camping (around Loch Dee, Loch Trool, Merrick, Loch Finlas, Loch Doon). Also stopped in Carlisle before returning back to London. See my digital photo album for a few pictures.

Went for a walk in the Cotswolds from Kingham to Moreton-in-Marsh, see GPS data and some pictures: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5.

Went for a walk in the Cotswolds from Kingham to Moreton-in-Marsh, see GPS data and some pictures: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5.