Tunlr is a replacement DNS service that allows you to watch Netflix and similar services from abroad. The downside is that you have to change your DNS settings to send all traffic to Tunlr. You can do this either on every device you want to …
Year: 2013
How to use xjc to generate Java classes from Schema
This blog post nicely describes how to generate Java classes with JAXB to read XML files, given a schema: Using JAXB to Generate Java Objects from XML Document In case you don’t have a schema you can also infer one. This online tool can do …
Backup your RaspberyPi SD Card images to play with different distributions
Do you like to explore all the technical possibilities of your gadgets like me? Sometimes setting up something can consume quite a lot of time. I had a RaspberryPi running for several month as Airplay station now. But since my Boxee is getting more and …
Live reload with appengine-maven-plugin
Google’s appengine-maven-plugin is cool. Especially for deploying your app to the cloud. But for developing it can be cumbersome, since the hot deploy mechanism is not very stable and you often have to restart the devserver. Since I wanted to get more into the whole …
Turn on/off USB Power on TL-MR3020 running OpenWrt to restart Arduino
In a later blog post I will describe how I am using a TL-MR3020 router as low-cost wifi shield for my Arduino to transmit sensor data over wifi. In this post I just want to show how you can script a restart of the arduino …
Converting keystores
JKS to P12 keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore keystore.jks -srcstoretype JKS -deststoretype PKCS12 -destkeystore keystore.p12 P12to JKS keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore keystore.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -deststoretype JKS -destkeystore keystore.jks
Use Tunlr on Boxee to watch Netflix outside of US (e.g. Germany, Switzerland)
The following how-to describes how you can watch Netflix on your boxee even if you are living outside of a country where Netflix is available. First of all you need a Netflix account. For USD 7.99 per month you can watch all their series and …
Using munin to visualize your arduino sensor data
I was looking for the easiest way to visualize the sensor data my arduino in the basement is sending to the linux server. The server receives a data triple every few seconds which I write to a log file using cat: cat /dev/ttyUSB0 > /var/log/datalogger.log …
How to create an maven archetype from an existing project
Use mvn archetype:create-from-project to create an artefact from an existing project. Have a look in the target folder, where you’ll find the new artefact.