This guide covers how to install the Substance applications on Ubuntu 16.04 or similar distros (such as Debian or Mint) manually, without using alien (check out this forum post on how to do this via alien). We basically just need to extract the RPM contents, copy it to /opt,…

I recently picked up a Lattice MachXO3 starter kit from Mouser-- it's a pretty cheap and convenient board for experimenting with an FPGA, without having a bazillion peripherals attached to it (and it's under $30). Lattice's design & synthesis software, Lattice Diamond, is available for both Windows and Linux, which…

After many months of research and reading through various articles detailing VGA passthrough builds (such as here, here, and here), I finally decided to upgrade my machine— with PCI passthrough being a primary objective of the new build. I have never liked dual-booting, and using Windows as my primary…

Rather than running Cobbler with the default Apache2 installation, below details how to serve Cobbler's WSGI Python services via NGINX's uwsgi_pass. This details the setup on CentOS 7. Install Cobbler The latest version of Cobbler can be installed from the EPEL repository on CentOS 7. First, be sure EPEL…

Converting Xen 4.4 guest domains to run under KVM I've been using Xen 4.4 with the XL (XenLite) toolchain for the past 18 months or so, and it has worked very reliably during that time. However, my biggest issue with the XL toolchain is that the support from…