Our new house has a garage, which I’m going to use as a workshop area (though I wont be changing its actual use from a garage, it will still be a garage, only with nice shelves on either side and some computers and screens) – let the DIY Garage makeover Read more…
Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – prereq’s a usb hub a usb flashdrive a usb mouse a usb wifi adaptor (at least for the initial setup) Download blackarch from https://blackarch.org/downloads.html write to a usb drive (I used Etcher to do this part) Plug into chuwi and boot – Press F7 Read more…
This post is now updated with install information for using 2020 versions of Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. When I first wrote this post I seriously wouldn’t have recommended Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro as an every-day system – Starting with 2018.01 and the 4.14 kernel it makes Read more…
The data in the Western Digital MyBook drives is stored in a raid on the 4th partition of the drive. Mounting the western digital mybook NAS to recover data in another linux install isn’t for beginners. But here is the process: 1) Remove the drive from the western digital NAS. Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a remote ssh filesystem as a ‘drive’ in osx using a bash script, osxfuse and brew. There are a few ways to go about this, all of them require a bit of setup and tweaking, But I found this to be the Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a macox dmg image file in linux. firstly, open terminal sudo mount -o loop /path/to/image.dmg /place/to/mount now your dmg file will be mounted in the /path/to/mount folder :)
I have a western digital mybook word NAS. Using the afp protocol file transfers were very slow. I knew there had to be a way to make your AFP NAS more responsive. It seems slow when you try to connect to it from a mac using AFP, but its lightning Read more…
Automount network drive on startup osx. This will show you how to automount a network drive when you login to osx lion. This method will persist through a reboot, so your drive will always be available. Connect to your network drive (finder > go > connect to server) Enter the Read more…
This will show you how to mount a remote directory in finder using sftp. (Mount sftp folder with finder). There is a link at the bottom to a post to mount any remote system you have ssh access to using homebrew. check that out if you like working with the Read more…
This will show you how to turn a downloaded iso file into a bootable usb drive using mac osx there are two methods. the first is the better way: go to unetbootin.sourceforge.net download it and follow the instructions you will now be done. the following method is the old way Read more…
Flash player on my mac makes it run hot. purely because it uses 100% cpu when ever its loaded. this will show you how to delete it. flash is not really needed now, and if you do need access to a site with flash then you can use chrome which Read more…
I have a little hp mini 210 that I decided to mount an external wifi antenna on. here are some pics of the Hp mini 210 external wifi aerial mod and some little descriptions to go with it. The main aim of the mod was to get an rp-sma connector Read more…