Fastboot on the Intel Yolo

See anything interesting? [root@mzito ~]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 012: ID 8087:09ef Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux […]

Got an Intel Yolo

So I couldn’t resist… I picked up an Intel Yolo today: I just happened to be at Sarit Center and saw that Safaricom had them on demo. I was pretty impressed, the thing is pretty snappy, the battery apparently lasts forever, and it was only 11,000 shillings ($125). It’s a very competitive phone for its […]

Blacklisting pcspkr

pcspkr is evil! Kill it with fire! No, but seriously, it’s so annoying amirite?! Whenever I’m poking around in a virtual terminal and I hit Tab that damn beep scares the bejesus out of me. Last week I installed ifplugd and it beeps in several different tones whenever the Ethernet cable gets unplugged (or downed, […]

Generate salted shadow hashes using Python crypt()

The other day I was doing some server setups (using ansible for automation) and I needed to create the same user/password on four different machines. It’s easy with ansible’s user module, but you need to provide a pre-hashed password. The key is to use python’s crypt.crypt(), which you can do interactively from a python shell: […]