Rants, grunts and chants

my raspberry pi’s new home

erald — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:26:38 +0000

this is actually my second raspberry pi’s home (the first one, rev 1, have it’s own). nothing really fancy, i just placed my rpi inside my cdr-king cw-5354u’s case. doesn’t it look cool to see two linux distros, dd-wrt and raspbian, in one box? a la voltron? for those who are curious, here’s what’s inside: [...]

my first encounter with walkers

erald — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:49:02 +0000

my first encounter with walkers

there was this cool function that adds a custom css class in the parent’s <li>: // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2983616/wordpress-filters-documentation-trying-to-understand-add-filter function my_list_pages_filter($pages){ $pages = preg_replace( '/<a/', '<a class="parent"', $pages ); return $pages; } add_filter( 'wp_list_pages', 'my_list_pages_filter' ); output will look something like: <ul> <li><a href="#">first level a</a> <li class="parent"><a href="#">first level b</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">level two a</a></li> <li><a [...]

my newest toy: a RCX03-285 mini dv video recorder

erald — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:58:50 +0000

my newest toy: a RCX03-285 mini dv video recorder

contrary to the product description described here, it is not a 5MP camera but rather 1.3MP. it has a quality of those from my defunct Nokia 6630. not for picky type of users. here’s a sample video taken by this mini camera. this video was edited to a 16x fast motion to squeeze all 26 [...]

cdrking wu150-rln wifi dongle goes with the rpi verified peripheral

erald — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:41:08 +0000

cdrking wu150-rln wifi dongle goes with the rpi verified peripheral

that is correct! this cheap wireless n usb network adapter works out of the box with my raspberry pi model b revision 1. there is no increase in ftp download speed so dont get too excited… update: it is read as 5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter Posted from WordPress for Android

what’s your raspberry pi’s uptime?

erald — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15:41 +0000

what’s your raspberry pi’s uptime?

mine is 30 days and counting. currently using it as a sandbox for my web related projects and as a torrent downloader. how do you use yours? Posted from WordPress for Android