Jan Holthuis
Personal Blog of Jan Holthuis
When I decided to replace my beloved Raspberry Pi media center with something more powerful, I didn't expect so many issues. I purchased Hardkernel's ODROID-C1 and was rather excited. The Kodi Entertainment Center worked much smoother than before (especially since I compiled it to use the Framebuffer instead of X11 …
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It's past 6 o'clock in the morning and - while writing this blog post - I'm wondering why manufacturers seem unable to implement stuff properly. If I had known what pain UEFI would cause me, I would have sticked to my good ol' BIOS boot setup.
But first things first: Since I …
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Some weeks ago I decided you replace my old and rusty Raspberry Pi (serving as a media center) with something faster (and less likely to suddenly lose ethernet connection). I stumbled over the dirt-cheap ODROID-C1, which outruns the Raspberry Pi (and even the brand-new Raspberry Pi 2) thanks to its …
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A lot of people already use Adblockers in their desktop browser, but what if you're using your phone, tablet or an alternative browser? Getting rid of annoying ads is simple: Block them with your router.
The idea is simple: when the DNS server on your router receives queries, we'll sort …
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I recently wanted to play an OGG video on my Raspberry Pi with XBMC (which has been renamed to Kodi recently). Unfortunately, it didn't work out of the box. This is how I solved the problems.
If you try to open your file …
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Voilà, there is my new website. Do not expect regular updates.
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