Angular 5 Admin dashboard template

There is a lot of angular dashboard seed projects out there. But they are stuffed with a lot of things that might be not necessary to start a project of your own. So I decided to do my own Angular dashboard lean seed project. This project was scaffolded with Angular CLI version 1.4.9. What’s included Angular 5+ & Typescript 2.6.2 Bootstrap …

GPD Pocket Windows OS firmware and drivers

The GPD Pocket is a small handheld device from the GPD company out of HK. Here is their web site: http://www.gpd.hk Indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop–2#/ Official forum of the GPD: http://forum.gpd.hk/f7-gpd-pocket Official GPD firmware download page: http://www.gpd.hk/news.asp?id=1519&selectclassid=002002 Reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/ Windows Downloads: Click here to download the Windows 10 OS firmware (You can click on “Valider et télécharger le fichier” to start the download) Click here to …

Linux Server real-time monitoring using a Raspberry PI

I wanted to be able to quickly see at any time the CPU load, Memory used, HD load, network etc … on my main home server. I wanted to have that constantly displayed on a screen on top of my server. Of course, one option would be to plug the monitor to the server and crack up a session to display …

Cheat sheet: Watching your Disks

If you built your own NAS with a PC, a Linux OS and some disks, you will need to monitor the health of your hard drives. Wouldn’t it be nice to know by advance if a hard disk will fail? Being proactive is essential here. And it also works if you only have a Linux workstation… For this, we will use the smartmontools …

Cheat sheet: How to create a bootable USB key on Mac OS X for Ubuntu / Debian

Open a terminal. BEFORE inserting the USB key, check which disks are available:

You should see one or more disks installed on your system like this:

Insert the USB key. Do a “diskutil list” again. You should see one more disk. This is your USB key. Let’s assume it is /dev/disk2. First we need to convert the ISO file to …