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Git Prompt – ZSH

MattPosted on May 19, 2020May 19, 20200

The Problem A littlw while ago I wrote about changing the shell prompt to indicate the current git branch in which you’re working, which works quite well on bash. However, the default shell for OSX …

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Remote Programming Altera/Intel FPGAs with Quartus jtagd

MattPosted on May 17, 2020May 17, 20200

USB Blaster Remote Programming As part of my day job, I’m lucky enough to get to play around with all sorts of technology, and lately I’ve been involved in a project where we’ve had to …

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Computers

MattPosted on May 17, 2020May 17, 20200

Computers This is a list of the computers and other items I have on my home network. It’s as much to document as to inform… I have managed to acquire a 16-way KVM that operates …

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Running PXE server in a FreeBSD/FreeNAS Jail

MattPosted on May 15, 2020May 17, 20200

A while back I setup a PXE boot environment on my linux machine. Since then, however, I’ve upgraded my server to a FreeNAS system. I had thought at the time that it would be easy …

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Git Prompt

MattPosted on April 23, 2020April 23, 20200

The Problem So the problem I have when I’m writing code or somesuch is that sometimes I am in the wrong git branch to be editing my code. For example, I may have switched to …

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I really should pay more attention to my blog

MattPosted on April 23, 20200

Yes, I know the last time I posted was 2017. I will update my blog with more content as I come to it, I promise!

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WiFi Troubles, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DD-WRT

MattPosted on June 25, 2017June 25, 20170

WiFi Troubles I noticed the other day that my iPad was having trouble connecting to my home wifi network. It turns out that my el-cheapo TP-Link WR-841N wifi access point had failed or lost its …

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Linux PXE Server in Heterogeneous Network with Existing DHCP Server (Part 3 – Rescue Utils)

MattPosted on June 21, 2017June 21, 20171

By now if you've been following along you should have the PXE server setup to serve various Ubuntu flavours (i386 only so far), along with memtest86. Also you should have a set of menus under …

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Linux PXE Server in Heterogeneous Network with Existing DHCP Server (Part 2 – Ubuntu Linux Distros)

MattPosted on June 20, 2017June 22, 20171

The story so far… Last time, we managed to get memtest86 installed as one of the boot options for our PXE server. Today, we will extend that to Xubuntu and other flavours of Ubuntu. To …

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Linux PXE Server in Heterogeneous Network with Existing DHCP Server (Part 1 – memtest)

MattPosted on June 18, 2017June 22, 20170

So I have a heterogeneous network, and I want to netboot various computers within that network without having to write individual lines in the DHCP server config files. Moreover, the DHCP server for my network …

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